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Ross Bleckner @ Petzel

PHOTOGRAPHY /

© 2019 Ross Bleckner

All images:
Courtesy of the artist
&
Petzel, New York

CREDITS /

June 4, 2019 

2-TIMES  Art
Ross Bleckner,
Pharmaceutria
@ Petzel
— 

An antagonistic,
visual retort to
the divisive 2016 
U.S. presidential
election...
’ 

Born: 
1949 – New York. 

Title translation:
 
Pharmaceutria
Sorceress in Latin. 

The exhibition:
 
The ‘Pharmaceutria’ 
series, completed 
within the last three 
years, signals a return 
to form for Bleckner
featuring the artist’s 
signature dark, hypnotic 
Monet & El Greco-inspired 
canvases, and investigating 
themes of anxiety, loss, 
memory and change – 
while proposing, through 
seductive images of 
pulsating beauty and 
emotional urgency, an 
idea of personal and 
social healing, whether 
partial or complete. 

I torch them literally
but 
organically. When 
the fire hits the paint,
it reacts. 
It’s a process
of 
construction and 
reconstruction. 
A rebirth.” 

2-TIMES highlights: 
· The Centuries, 2018 
· I Met A Man, 2018 

On view at:
 
Petzel Gallery 

456 W 18th St,
New York, NY 10011,
United States. 

Closes: 
June 15, 2019.