"Unrepentant & Unapologetic Flowers Plus Small Stories"
Curated by Rhonda Gawthrop
May 18 - September 8, 2019 at Oceanside Museum of Art
Roland Reiss will receive a solo exhibitionn of paintings and miniatrues at the Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA. This exhibition features the floral series Reiss started in 2007, partly as a reaction to the notion of subject hierarchy in art. Working beyond the superficial meanings usually associated with flowers, Reiss uses color contrasts to explore expressive possibilities in a luminous world of color, believing they take us to a deeper level of consciousness. Viewed from far away, the flowers become human scale with personalities of their own. At a closer range viewers find man-made surprises such as graphic airplanes, cityscapes, and shapes that live in the space between leaves and petals. Also included are a series of miniature tableaux that explore extreme images seen in the media as representative of a new contemporary mythology. Another series looks at morality in daily life.
This exhibition is made possible by support from Ving and Valya Simpson.
This exhibition is made possible by support from Ving and Valya Simpson.
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