Grids: A Selection of Paintings — Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2018
Lynne Golob Gelfman
Grids: A Selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman
Pérez Art Museum Miami
1103 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami
September 15, 2018 – April 21, 2019
Grids brought fifteen paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman, made between 1968 and 2018, into the galleries of the Pérez Art Museum Miami. The exhibition looked at her work through the modernist tradition of the grid: across her different series, repeated lines and geometric forms take up the late-modernist grid while refusing its rules, drawing as well on non-Western pattern and on the urban and natural landscape of Miami.
The selection opened with circle blue (1968), a field of circles painted in New York, and the thru paintings of 1974, in which Gelfman worked paint through the canvas from the back so that the weave itself became the grid. It continued with the late thru works (2015–2017), the tall breath paintings of 2018, large canvases from the greil, burqa and between series (1998–2008), and three lines black panels.
Works in the exhibition
The fifteen paintings on the museum’s checklist. Click an image to see it larger.
Checklist
circle blue, 1968, acrylic on canvas, 55 x 55 in.
thru circle blue, 1974, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 in.
thru green 1, 1974, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 in.
thru 3.9, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in. (courtesy the artist and tile blush, Miami)
thru 3, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in.
thru 8.3, 2017, acrylic on linen, 48 x 48 in.
breath 5, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 108 x 54 in.
breath 7, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 108 x 54 in.
greil, 1998, oil and acrylic on canvas, 66 x 96 in.
between black 1, 2005, nitro-alkyd paint and acrylic on canvas, 66 x 96 in. (courtesy Marisa Newman Projects, New York)
between 2, 2008, nitro-alkyd paint and acrylic on canvas, 66 x 96 in.
burqa grey, 2000, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 96 in.
lines black 1, 2007, acrylic on panel, 48 x 48 in.
lines black 3, 2007, acrylic on panel, 48 x 48 in.
lines black, 2008, acrylic on panel, 48 x 48 in.
Installation photographs by Oriol Tarridas, 2018. Checklist and wall text: Pérez Art Museum Miami; Lynne Golob Gelfman estate archive.
