Ross Bleckner

March 22 - April 19, 2003
540 West 26th Street

Press Release

Lehmann Maupin would like to announce an exhibition of paintings by Ross Bleckner. This is Bleckner's second solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin.

This exhibition includes several new large-scale paintings, as well as earlier works representing significant periods in Bleckner's oeuvre, with particular attention paid to those paintings with an intense optical effect. All of these works, whether the pure abstraction of the stripe or dot paintings, or the more representational bird paintings, have a hypnotic, dizzying effect. The disturbing physical sensation the paintings elicit in the viewer is in contradiction to their beauty and seductiveness. In addition to the large-scale works, an installation of almost one hundred small bird paintings will cover the gallery walls.

Ross Bleckner was born in New York City and raised in Hewlett, NY, a Long Island suburb. Mr. Bleckner received a Bachelor of Arts from New York University in 1971, a Master of Fine Arts from Cal Arts in 1973, and has taught at many of the nation's most prestigious universities. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum had a major retrospective of his works in 1995, summarizing two decades of solo shows at internationally acclaimed exhibition venues such as SFMoMA, Contemporary Arts Museum, Stockholm Moderna Museet, and the Carnegie Museum of Art. Works by Mr. Bleckner are also held in esteemed public collections throughout the globe, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Astrup Fearnley, Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Mr. Bleckner lives in New York City.

For more information please contact Juliet Gray at juliet@lehmannmaupin.com or 212 255 2923.

Artists in this exhibition

• Ross Bleckner

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Exhibition Works

Unknown Quantities of Light (Part 2), 1987 oil on linen 108 x 144 inches 274.3 x 365.8 cm LM6510


Birdland, 2000 oil on linen 96 x 96 inches 243.8 x 243.8 cm LM6508


Trait, 2002 oil on linen 96 x 60 inches 243.8 x 152.4 cm LM6509


Spot, 2001 oil on linen 84 x 108 inches 213.4 x 274.3 cm LM3221


Bird Installation, 1995-2003 oil on linen dimensions variable LM6639