Adrianne Rubenstein
Adrianne Rubenstein (b. Montreal, 1983; lives/works in New York) holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2011) and a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (2007). Solo exhibitions include Magic Show at Broadway Gallery, New York; Blue at Tanya Leighton, Los Angeles; Little Shop of Horrors at Tif Sigfrids, Athens, GA; and Ruby in the Dust at Deli Gallery, New York. Rubenstein has curated exhibitions including Celestial Songs at Venus, New York; Geranium at Stems Gallery, Brussels; and Go Away Road at Loyal Gallery in Stockholm. Her work has been covered in Artforum and The New York Times.
Exuberantly chromatic, many of her works are a multilevel translation of the tradition of 'paintings within paintings’ (à la Matisse and Bonnard representations of works in the painted studio), adding her own third translation of these referential images through her studio experimentation. Rubenstein allows the referred shapes to transform while painting wet on wet, moving them from representational idea through quick gestural versions, into simplified coloured shapes, pushing past their referent and contributing, but not determining, the painting itself.
