Winston Roeth

Schmelzwasser/Snowmelt #2 (2021)

Winston Roeth splits his time between Maine and Beacon NY. Roeth’s work is exhibited widely, coinciding with this exhibition a suite of paintings from the Ege collection are currently on view at the Kunstmuseum Alexander Bürkle in Freiburg, a presentation of works from the Mondschein collection is currently on view at the Kunstmuseum Wiesbaden.

Statement:

When working on paintings I spend much of my time mixing pigments. Raw pigments are loaded with knowledge that invites discovery.  Each pigment has a color that in its raw form needs to be released.  For me, the urge is to turn the color into light. To find the energy that expresses the knowledge held inside.  

Mixing pigments directly on the support is the most direct way to get the color moving.   I blend dry pigments with glue and water and brush it out. I can repaint a surface several times a day.  Always re-mixing pigments. Once I see the painting in front of me, I can zero in on where the painting wants to go.   There is a point where the painting takes the lead.  That's when my instincts kick in and, if I'm lucky, I'm in the effortless grace of the painting. The freedom of it.   Think too much about what that is and you lose it.

In the last 60 years there have been hundreds of new pigments produced.  Some of the newest pigments are light activated and can change dramatically as you move around them. Some can jump out across the room and grab you. I began experimenting with metal powders in the early 80's and soon moved on to the high tech world of light affected pigments that use micro thin coatings of oxides on mica to create colors that change with light.  Like the eyes of a portrait painting, these colors follow you around the room.  Increasingly, more of these mercurial high tech pigments have been produced.  

Many surprises await our senses in the world of pigments.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2020 'Speed of Light', 30-year survey, Museum Wiesbaden: Wiesbaden, Germany 

  • 2019 Fox-Jensen-McCrory Gallery, Auckland, NZ

  • 2018 Galerie Vera Munro: Hamburg, Germany
    Galerie Christian Lethert: Cologne, Germany

  • 2017 Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Bartha Contemporary, London, UK 

  • 2016 Duet: Frank Gerritz & Winston Roeth, Xavier Fiol Galeria, Palma de Mallorca 

  • 2015 New Works, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Frank Gerritz and Winston Roeth, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany

  •  2013 Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Galeria Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca, Spain 

  • 2012 Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
    Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
    Galeria Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany

  • 2011 Works on Paper, Olschewski + Behm, Frankfurt, Germany
    Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
    Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • 2010 Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 

  • 2009 Xavier Fiol Galeria, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
    Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

  • 2008 Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY, USA

  • 2007 Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
    Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

  • Museum Wiesbaden, Germany

  • Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY

  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

  • Artothek, Cologne, Germany

  • Panza Collection, Palazzo Ducale, Sassuolo, Italy

  • Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Panza Collection, Lugano,

  • Switzerland Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland

  • Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

  • Benesse House Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Benesse Island, Japan FAI Foundation

  • Panza Collection, Varese, Italy

  • Yves Klein Foundation, Tucson, AZ

  • Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany

  • Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

  • San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

  • Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany

  • Studio A - Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Germany

  • Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2020 "Primary Forms", Winston Roeth & Hanns Kunitzberger
    Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany

  • 2018 Galerie Vera Munro, Ham

  • 2017 Color As Attitude: Ruth Ann Fredenthal, Winston Roeth, Phil Sims, Osart Gallery, Milan,Italy 

  • 2015 Painting Well after Formalism, Fox-Jensen Gallery, Auckland, Australia

  • The Authority Of Death, Jensen Gallery Auckland, Australia
    Pink. Ruff-Nikolic-Leigh-Roeth-Knoebel-Humphries, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
    Galerie Artists, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany 

  • 2014 Elemental: Susan English, Winston Roeth and Greg Slick, Matteawan Gallery, New York, NY
    connect., Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt, Germany
    Haupt-und Nebenwege, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany 

  • 2013 Points of Orientation, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
    Rim. Imi Knoebel, Winston Roeth, Tomislav Nikolic, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
    Once upon a time and a very good time it was..., Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
    Touching Colour, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
    INDICATE, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
    Farben – Colours, Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus and Sammlung Schroth, Soest, Germany 

  • 2012 Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
    Works on Paper, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK; Fox/Jensen & Greenwood Street Project, Victoria, Australia 

  • 2010 Naked, Jensen Gallery, Auchland, New Zealand
    Painting, Howard Yezerki Gallery, Boston, MA

  • 2009 Other Voices, Other Rooms, curated by Steven Evans, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY

  • 2008 Straight Forward: Tobias Trutwin, Karoly Keseru, Frank Gerritz, Winston Roeth, Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY
    20/20, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
    Recent acquisitions, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

  • 2007 The Panza Collection: An Experience of Colour and Light, Albright-Knox, Gallery, Buffalo, NY
    All from America (Part Two), Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany; Headspace, Jensen Gallery, Auchland, New Zealand

  • 2006 All From America (Part One), Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
    Detox, Jensen Gallery, New Zealand
    Modern ’06, Bartha Contemporary, Residenz, Munich, Germany

  • 2005 Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
    Reflex: The Brain Closer than the Eye, Gallery N. von Bartha, London, UK
    Modern ’05, Bartha Contemporary, Residenz, Munich, Germany
    First Choice, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
    Minimal Means, Kunstverein, Eislingen, Germany
    Frank Gerritz and Winston Roeth, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
    Lux, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
          

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