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Jan 6–Feb 17, 2013

R.H. QuaytmanPassing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25

A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25 (Genzken’s Skull), 2012.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25 (Genzken’s Skull), 2012.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, Installation View, 2013.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, 2012.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, 2012.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, 2012.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25 (Genzken’s Skull), 2012.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, 2012.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25 (Everybody needs at least one window), 2012.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, 2012.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25 (After James Coleman’s slide piece), 2012.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25 (after John Vinci’s slide of Mies’ St. Savior), 2012.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25 (Public Space/Two Audiences), 2012.

  • A teal skull on a deep blue background, layered on top of a peach canvas, looks to the right

    R.H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25 (Hamza’s Shelves), 2012.

  • Quaytman’s practice is to create installations of painted panels termed chapters. The ongoing chapters, begun in 2001, explore formalist and conceptual variations of ideas about painting, as well as the poetic and grammatical possibilities of photography-based imagery. The installations combine abstraction, often with optical effects, and images related to the sites in which the paintings are first exhibited. For the Renaissance Society exhibition, the artist has been researching the history of the museum from the 1970s and 80s, a time when the museum’s director, Susanne Ghez, was presenting important early exhibitions of conceptual art, at the beginning of what would come to be her internationally influential career. Ghez is celebrating her 40th anniversary as Director of the Renaissance Society this year.

    Quaytman is interested in the friendship between Ghez and Anne Rorimer, one of Conceptual Art’s first historians and curators. Many of the artists shown by Ghez and Rorimer, including Buren, Graham, Toroni, Asher, and Coleman, influenced Quaytman’s approach to painting. Chicago architect John Vinci, another long-time collaborator with Ghez and Rorimer, has allowed Quaytman to use several of his teaching slides depicting Mies Van Der Rohe’s Chapel of Saint Savior on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology.

    This exhibition is generously funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Miguel Abreu, and Howard and Donna Stone, with additional support from The Cliff Dwellers Arts Foundation.

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