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Gideon Rubin
Red Boys and Green Girls, 27 January - 19 February 2022
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Gideon Rubin, Red Boys and Green Girls

Opening Reception: January 27, 5-7 pm 

Space is limited, RSVP with the link below

 

The paintings in Gideon Rubin’s seventh solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery reflect the zeitgeist of our COVID-defined world.  Solitary figures, frequently turned away from the viewer, stand immobilized or move dreamily in blurry, indefinite spaces.  Isolated and dislocated, the scenes evoke a realm of introspection and become meditations on the individual’s relationship to humanity.   

 

Rubin interprets anonymous images he’s mined from the internet, vintage magazines, or scenes from French New Wave Cinema.  Like the film director Eric Rohmer, to whose work some of these images refer, he’s more interested in the emotional state of his subjects, than what they’re actually doing.  

 

The show takes its title from two series of paintings, each group of the same subject matter: a boy in a red shirt and a young woman wearing a green dress.  In each set, it’s the same clothing and same pose.  Only the scale of the paintings shifts. "What surprised me, as I made them, was how different each felt.  Almost as if it was the same green dress but worn by a different person," says Rubin.

 

Any series is an artist’s exploration of a subject matter that fascinates them.  A series inevitably illustrates that the same thing, observed and interpreted repeatedly and at different times, will yield different conclusions.  These works by Rubin are additionally meditations on the practice of painting, demonstrating how a few, sure brushstrokes can be used to suggest light falling on form, defining a mental state or conjuring a mood.  Repeatedly painting the same figure with subtle variations, Rubin speaks to the fact that no one is the same person from moment to moment, and none of us is the same person today that we were in the autumn of 2019.  

 

Gideon Rubin was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, and lives in London.  He received his MFA from Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London. His solo museum exhibitions include the Freud Museum, London; the Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus; Chengdu MoCA, China; ICA, San Jose, CA; and the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel.

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Works
  • Two palm trees with blue sky
    Gideon Rubin
    Palm Trees, 2021
    oil on canvas
    14 1/8 x 18 1/8 in
    36 x 46 cm
  • woman in tank top and underwear in front of white car
    Gideon Rubin
    Untitled (White Car), 2021
    oil on linen
    51 1/8 x 51 1/8 in
    130 x 130 cm
  • Gideon Rubin Plait, 2021 oil on linen 12 1/8 x 10 1/8 in 30.5 x 25.5 cm
    Gideon Rubin
    Plait, 2021
    oil on linen
    12 1/8 x 10 1/8 in
    30.5 x 25.5 cm
  • framed painting of red roses and white baby's breath flowers in vase with linen background
    Gideon Rubin
    Red Roses, 2020
    oil on linen on panel
    11 3/4 x 11 3/4 in
    30 x 30 cm
  • Woman standing on beach with long white button down
    Gideon Rubin
    White Shirt, 2021
    oil on linen
    51 1/8 x 51 1/8 in
    130 x 130 cm
  • Man from behind with dirty blonde hair in red long sleeve collared shirt with blue background.
    Gideon Rubin
    Red Shirt, 2021
    oil on linen
    15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in
    40 x 30 cm
  • Man from behind with dirty blonde hair in red long sleeve collared shirt with blue background.
    Gideon Rubin
    Red Shirt, 2021
    oil on linen
    34 1/8 x 24 1/8 in
    86.5 x 61 cm
  • Man from behind with dirty blonde hair in red long sleeve collared shirt with blue background.
    Gideon Rubin
    Red Shirt, 2021
    oil on linen
    11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in
    30 x 20 cm
  • Man from behind with dirty blonde hair in red long sleeve collared shirt with blue background.
    Gideon Rubin
    Red Shirt, 2021
    oil on linen
    59 1/8 x 41 3/8 in
    150 x 105 cm
  • Woman pictured from behind in low back green dress with brown hair in a bun in front of blue background.
    Gideon Rubin
    Green Dress, 2021
    oil on linen
    34 1/8 x 23 7/8 in
    86.5 x 60.5 cm
  • Woman pictured from behind in low back green dress with brown hair in a bun in front of blue background.
    Gideon Rubin
    Green Dress, 2021
    oil on linen
    11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in
    30 x 20 cm
  • Woman pictured from behind in low back green dress with brown hair in a bun in front of blue background.
    Gideon Rubin
    Green Dress, 2021
    oil on linen
    15 3/4 x 11 3/4 in
    40 x 30 cm
  • Woman pictured from behind in low back green dress with brown hair in a bun in front of blue background.
    Gideon Rubin
    Green Dress, 2021
    oil on linen
    59 1/8 x 41 3/8 in
    150 x 105 cm
  • Naked lower half of woman lying on bed with black cat curled up under buttocks.
    Gideon Rubin
    Black Cat, 2018
    oil on linen
    31 1/2 x 35 3/8 in
    80 x 90 cm
  • Torso of woman wearing blue button down shirt
    Gideon Rubin
    Blue Shirt, 2021
    oil on linen
    12 1/8 x 10 1/8 in
    30.5 x 25.5 cm
  • Man in grey suit staring out a window at night.
    Gideon Rubin
    Night at the Window, 2020
    oil on canvas
    78 3/4 x 59 1/8 in
    200 x 150 cm
  • woman in green room on red chair in purple top unbuttoned with chest exposed
    Gideon Rubin
    Purple, 2021
    oil on linen
    28 x 26 in
    71 x 66 cm
  • Person with short brown hair in white long sleeve dress with round collar.
    Gideon Rubin
    Untitled, 2018
    oil on linen
    35 3/8 x 31 1/2 in
    90 x 80 cm
  • vase of floral arrangement on table next to stack of books
    Gideon Rubin
    Roses in the Studio, 2021
    oil on canvas
    14 1/8 x 12 1/4 in
    36 x 31 cm
  • Red Cessna plane with two faceless people in sky.
    Gideon Rubin
    Red Cessna, 2021
    oil on linen
    59 1/8 x 41 3/8 in
    150 x 105 cm
  • Upper thighs in green underwear.
    Gideon Rubin
    Legs, 2021
    oil on linen
    10 1/8 x 12 1/8 in
    25.5 x 30.5 cm
  • Boy with brown hair in blue jeans and white shirt turned away with blue background.
    Gideon Rubin
    White T Shirt, 2021
    oil on linen
    11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in
    30 x 20 cm
  • Two boys in white T shirts with blue background
    Gideon Rubin
    Boys, 2021
    oil on linen, diptych
    33 1/8 x 23 5/8 in each
    84 x 60 cm each
  • Woman in white shirt and shorts swinging golf club.
    Gideon Rubin
    Swing, 2021
    oil on linen
    59 1/8 x 41 3/8 in
    150 x 105 cm
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Press
  • Naked woman lying down on stomach with black cat curled up below her buttocks

    7 Must-See Art Exhibitions in February 2022

    Paul Laster, Galerie Magazine, February 8, 2022
  • A wall with eight paintings, four of a man from behind in a red shirt, and four of a woman from behind in a green dress.

    Gideon Rubin show is a haunted house between photography and painting

    Max Blue, SF Examiner, February 5, 2022
Events
  • Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett in black coat and glasses and Gideon Rubin sitting in in studio in clothes covered in paint

    In Conversation: Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett & Gideon Rubin

    10 Feb 2022
    Tune in for a virtual tour of Gideon Rubin's current exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery and a conversation between the artist and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, February 10th at 12pm PT. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett is University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University. She is currently Ronald S. Lauder Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, in Warsaw. Her books include Image before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864–1939 (with Lucjan Dobroszycki); They Called Me Mayer...
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News
  • 7 Must-See Art Exhibitions in February 2022

    7 Must-See Art Exhibitions in February 2022

    From emerging talents to discover to seasoned practitioners experimenting with new techniques, these shows in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles are not to be missed Read more
  • Gideon Rubin show is a haunted house between photography and painting

    Gideon Rubin show is a haunted house between photography and painting

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