Jensen Gallery is pleased to announce its fourth exhibition of paintings by the American artist Winston Roeth. After 30 years of living in New York, Roeth now bases himself in Beacon, upstate New York, and at his second home and studio in Waldoboro, Maine.Jensen Gallery is pleased to announce its fourth exhibition of paintings by the American artist Winston Roeth. After 30 years of living in New York, Roeth now bases himself in Beacon, upstate New York, and at his second home and studio in Waldoboro, Maine.As well as this exhibition of significant new works, Roeth has a major installation of work presently at Kunstraum Alexander Burkle, Freiburg, Germany. This project exhibition that builds on a rich history of projects in Europe including the major commission at Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo in Varese for the Panza Collection. The commission comprises eleven site-specific paintings from his series of "Border" or "Containment" paintings situated in a gilded and panelled room.

In writing for the Ouroborus document Winston Roeth, published in 2003, American writer Tom McDonough closes his essay on Winston's paintings by quoting, Alfred Barr & James Thrall Soby, the senior curators at the Museum of Modern Art during the 1960's. In describing Ad Reinhardt they might just as well be looking at the new paintings of
Winston Roeth - "Painted with an exacting craftmanship, extraordinary subtle in colour, they reveal themsleves slowly. They are objects of contemplation, serene events of the spirit, elegant in their mystery. They invite meditation."

Roeth has been described as " - probably the best colour painter in New York" by American critic Michael Brennan - a description that puts him in a long lineage that includes Elsworth Kelly, Marcia Hafif and James Turrell. Indeed the architecture of Roeth's nuanced space, particularly in the Containment and Grid paintings connects them with fellow New Yorker Allan Uglow and the specific object nature of his works has resonance with the sculpture of Donald Judd.

Winston Roeth
Opens 28 November, 2006
61 Upper Queen Street, Auckland
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