In September 2020 paintings by American artist Winston Roeth will be gathered from the corners of the globe to Wiesbaden, Germany. Together they will form a major survey of his highly refined and passionate practice. Fox, Jensen & McCrory will be at the Kunstmuseum to celebrate with Winston – the friend and the painter.
I was introduced to Winston back in 1996. His studio was on a third-floor walk-up in Little Italy, right above the famed Café Roma. It was a bustling and relentlessly noisy neighbourhood in the heart of the Lower East Side and it couldn’t have felt more Manhattan. I was lucky enough to stay there many times on my subsequent visits to NYC, and though Winston has since moved north to the more patient and civilized Hudson Valley, Emma and I often find ourselves walking past Café Roma and looking up at Winston’s old windows - swimming in nostalgia and happy memories.
In the late 90s the apartment was given over almost entirely to 'the arts'. Winston’s wife, Susan Osberg, was (and still is) a notable choreographer and dancer, and Winston was painting full-time. This devotion to work meant that the zone for entertaining and living was compressed into a humble, shaker-like space that separated studios at either end of the apartment. All the windows were covered in a soft glycine paper which didn’t exactly reduce the hubbub of the city, but it kept much of the visual noise at bay. And that is what Winston has been doing all these years since…keeping visual noise at bay, whilst giving colour the clarity of an exquisitely held note.
Special collectors all around the world have recognized this gift in Winston. There are many discreet collections in Europe, America, Japan, Korea and Australasia where his work is held in depth. It’s that kind of painting - filled with sensuality, whose immersive generosity functions as an antidote to the anxiety and endless clamour that marks so much of this fraught moment in the world.
You can find Roeth’s works in the collections of MoMA, The Albright Knox Museum, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunstmuseum Weisbaden and Benesse House, Naoshima. Alongside these collections there have been site-specific commissions and installations such as that in Sassuolo Italy, where Roeth was commissioned by the Panza Collection to paint eleven permanent works for the Palazzo Ducale.
This will be the ninth solo exhibition that we have made with Winston. His paintings have been central to most of the major projects we have made too – Points of Orientation (2002 & 2013), Farben (2003 & 2014), Lux (2005), Detox (2006), Naked (2010 & 2011), The Architecture of Colour (2012), The Authority of Death (2015 & 2016), Portrait Without a Face (2018) and most recently Permafrost (2019). You could be forgiven for thinking that he is central to what we stand for. We are thrilled to say that he will be present for the opening in Auckland and will also travel on to Sydney.
Andrew Jensen, October 2019.
In September 2020 paintings by American artist Winston Roeth will be gathered from the corners of the globe to Wiesbaden, Germany. Together they will form a major survey of his highly refined and passionate practice. Fox, Jensen & McCrory will be at the Kunstmuseum to celebrate with Winston – the friend and the painter.
I was introduced to Winston back in 1996. His studio was on a third-floor walk-up in Little Italy, right above the famed Café Roma. It was a bustling and relentlessly noisy neighbourhood in the heart of the Lower East Side and it couldn’t have felt more Manhattan. I was lucky enough to stay there many times on my subsequent visits to NYC, and though Winston has since moved north to the more patient and civilized Hudson Valley, Emma and I often find ourselves walking past Café Roma and looking up at Winston’s old windows - swimming in nostalgia and happy memories.
In the late 90s the apartment was given over almost entirely to 'the arts'. Winston’s wife, Susan Osberg, was (and still is) a notable choreographer and dancer, and Winston was painting full-time. This devotion to work meant that the zone for entertaining and living was compressed into a humble, shaker-like space that separated studios at either end of the apartment. All the windows were covered in a soft glycine paper which didn’t exactly reduce the hubbub of the city, but it kept much of the visual noise at bay. And that is what Winston has been doing all these years since…keeping visual noise at bay, whilst giving colour the clarity of an exquisitely held note.
Special collectors all around the world have recognized this gift in Winston. There are many discreet collections in Europe, America, Japan, Korea and Australasia where his work is held in depth. It’s that kind of painting - filled with sensuality, whose immersive generosity functions as an antidote to the anxiety and endless clamour that marks so much of this fraught moment in the world.
You can find Roeth’s works in the collections of MoMA, The Albright Knox Museum, Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunstmuseum Weisbaden and Benesse House, Naoshima. Alongside these collections there have been site-specific commissions and installations such as that in Sassuolo Italy, where Roeth was commissioned by the Panza Collection to paint eleven permanent works for the Palazzo Ducale.
This will be the ninth solo exhibition that we have made with Winston. His paintings have been central to most of the major projects we have made too – Points of Orientation (2002 & 2013), Farben (2003 & 2014), Lux (2005), Detox (2006), Naked (2010 & 2011), The Architecture of Colour (2012), The Authority of Death (2015 & 2016), Portrait Without a Face (2018) and most recently Permafrost (2019). You could be forgiven for thinking that he is central to what we stand for. We are thrilled to say that he will be present for the opening in Auckland and will also travel on to Sydney.
Andrew Jensen, October 2019.
