R. H. Quaytman: + x, Chapter 34

The paintings of contemporary artist R. H. Quaytman employ a variety of pictorial and conceptual strategies, ranging from the literary to the logical, from the representational to the abstract, and from the optical to the physical. This sweeping scope has allowed Quaytman to explore many of the factors that enable a painting to generate meaning, whether they be its content, context, or mode of production. In the course of considering the medium’s potential, Quaytman has repeatedly used other artists or their work as subject matter, a practice that reflects on how any work of art is necessarily understood, by artist and viewer, in relation to other artworks.

For this exhibition, Quaytman will present a new group of paintings, titled + ×, Chapter 34. In these new paintings, Quaytman will engage the Swedish artist’s aesthetic language and spiritually charged subject matter, reexamining both through the lens of the Guggenheim Museum’s founding ethos. 

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.