Bobbie Oliver’s (DG 2009, Juror) second exhibition with High Noon, entitled By the River, will open on May 20.
“Oliver’s newest paintings cite her environment as a signifier, owing much of the imagery to the time spent outside the city in 2020. The body of work began at the artist’s studio in Rock Valley, NY, which borders the Delaware River and was completed in her loft in TriBeCa, appropriately emulating the journey through the paintings’ shifts in edge quality and heightened amorphous formal sensibility of existing between solid and liquid. The river became emblematic of the year’s creative process— flowing despite all disturbances, staying whole, natural, and it’s own, despite human arbitration— both generating a feeling of how to observe a painting, and anecdotal for the slowly considered and constrained compositions.”
An all-day opening will take place Thursday, May 20th from 1-8pm, with masks required and attendance limited to four guests in the gallery at a time. Oliver will be at the gallery from 2-8pm. Please email or call ahead if you’d like to reserve a preferred 20 minute time slot. A full color, limited edition catalog of the exhibition will also be published during the exhibition’s run with an essay by Mimi Thompson. For additional information about the exhibition, please contact Jared Linge at jared@highnoongallery.com, call 760.519.1956, or click here.
The image seen here is Imprints, 2021, acrylic on canvas, 72″ x 48″