Artists VOLTA NY 2008Gideon Rubin
Presented by: ROKEBY
1973, Tel Aviv, Israel
Gideon Rubin is fascinated by the course of time. The artist’s paintings are executed in bold think brush strokes only to be scraped back, eliminated and then repainted, this process of repeating observed and imagined characters takes place again and again so that numerous histories and lives are entrenched within a canvas. Scraped back a final time only the most essential brushstrokes remain in the final canvas, suggesting in the simplest yet most expressive terms, a life passed, a secret unearthed or a memory resurfaced.
 Gideon Rubin, Boy with Gas Mask, 2007, Oil on linen, 122 x 102cm (48 x 41 inches) |