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Robin Rose:Cypher at the Katzen Center

April 26, 2009

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the Rose show at Hemphill
Robin Rose is definitely having a moment – or make that a month or two. One of DC’s best-known artists, he has worked for many years in encaustic, making paintings of gorgeous surface color and depth you can fall into, but without much of what might be called “content”. Rose has seemed perfectly happy to make beautiful work. Until now.
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the Rose show at the Katzen
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a wax-encrusted skateboard posed on the edge of time
This month he has two major shows, one at the Hemphill Gallery downtown that features the work he is known for and one at the Katzen Center at AU that is a complete departure. The opening at the Katzen last Thursday was clearly the place to be for the top echelon of the stratified DC art world (George Hemphill leaned against the railing looking most satisfied) and the joint was abuzz.
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Who is that with Max and Nina Hirschfeld?
Rose has filled the soaring top-floor space with collections of objects redolent of the artist’s history, of the passage of time and of the culture of mid-century “cool” America and those who came of age then. I love the electric guitar stuck on the ceiling but my cell phone, alas, was not up to the task of photographing it.

The artist says about this work,:
"Where my paintings may hint at known metaphors, this exhibition addresses them directly. I have used things from my immediate environment, objects that resonate with my needs for utility and mystery."
 
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