Curtis Rhodes: Gallery Talk

Curtis Rhodes
Yaddo Series: Eccentric Flints June 19 through September 26, 2012 
Gallery Talk — September 26 at noon 
NCRC, Building 18, 1^st Floor Rotunda Gallery 

Curtis Rhodes has created a series of paintings that feature ancient Mayan eccentric flints interpreted through modernist structure. These paintings are classical in the handling of the medium, modernist in the division of space and primal in subject matter. What informs this series of paintings are assembled parts of abstracted Mayan architectural elements, segments of wall paintings, vessels and textile fragments to create the landscape space for the flints to exist in — all adapted to the visual formalist devices and abstract motifs of international modernism. At the same time, these paintings are a deliberate, romantic plea for ambiguity (the touchstone of modernist painting) and the power and beauty of mysteries.

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