James Rosenquist
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BiographyBorn in Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1933
Died in New York, New York, 2017 -
"There's no scale in the brain. An image of the most colossal monument and the tiniest ant can rest side by side in your mind. The mundane and the bizarre can fuse into a language of images that float to the surface when you least expect it."
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In 2017, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne organized Rosenquist’s most recent retrospective, James Rosenquist: Painting as Immersion, which traveled to the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark. He has also been the subject of major retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2003-04). In 2022, Kasmin mounted a major solo exhibition of works realized between 1989 and 1992. In 2019, Kasmin staged Two Paintings, an exhibition of monumental work by James Rosenquist, reflecting his lifelong fascination with space, real and imagined.
James Rosenquist’s work is included in major private and public collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Gallery, London; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, among many others.
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Works
James Rosenquist
Floating to the Top, 1964oil on canvas with plexiglass strips and acrylic letters64 x 62 inches
162.6 x 157.5 cm5of 5Exhibitions-
James Rosenquist
April 28 – June 4, 2022 509 West 27th Street, New YorkKasmin is thrilled to present an exhibition of paintings by James Rosenquist, staged in collaboration with the Estate of James Rosenquist, on view at 509 West 27th Street from April 28–June 4, 2022. Realized between 1989 and 1992, the works share several unique formal elements that combine in a compelling exploration of the rapidly changing world of the late 20th century. Blending abstract forms and figuration in a dynamic cacophony of imagery, the works probe both ecological and political themes and can be read as both celebrations of natural habitats as well as elegies to their desecration on a global and cosmic scale. Searingly relevant today, Rosenquist’s approach to image-making tests the possibilities of perception and asks us to consider forms of consumerism and consumption that affect our climate, our natural world, and the space our planet inhabits.View More -
James Rosenquist: Two Paintings
October 17 – November 16, 2019 509 West 27th Street, New YorkKasmin in cooperation with the Estate of James Rosenquist and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (London, Paris, Salzburg), is pleased to announce an exhibition of two important paintings by James Rosenquist. On view at the gallery’s flagship 509 West 27th Street location, both works—Joystick (2002) and The Geometry of Fire (2011)—reflect Rosenquist’s lifelong fascination with space, real and imagined, and his turn in the last two decades of his career to a new kind of abstraction.View More
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