Purveyors of Fine Pop Surrealism and Contemporary Art Since 1998.
www.roqlarue.com
www.roqlarue.com
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- Seattle, WA, 98121
- Phone:
- (206)374-8977
- Wed - Sat:
- 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Roq La Rue Gallery
Friday, November 13 at 6:00pm
Roq La Rue Gallery
Roq La Rue
presents
Brian Despain
"Requiarium"
new paintings
John Brophy
"Saints and Angels"
new paintings
opens Friday Nov. 13th 6-9pm
runs through Dec. 5th
Music by DJ Vodka Twist
Roq La Rue is very pleased to present two solo exhibitions by two Northwest painters, Brian Despain and John Brophy.
Brian Despain works with imagina...ry yet recognizable modern landscapes, but populates his world with seemingly self aware and melancholy robots in a seemingly endless quest for the numinous. His work blends the natural world with technology and usually has a slightly morbid slant. Archetype-loaded imagery such as skulls, gears, fish, and birds provide the forefront for a seemingly arcane number system the artist employs in all his work. His rich and somber color palettes of post apocalyptic ochres, deep blues, and steel greys belie and hidden warmth and dark humor within his work. This show will feature 8 new paintings.
John Brophy creates paintings that blend artifacts from global cultures and belief systems and juxtaposes them with the overarching affects of western consumer culture. Taking cues from the religious imagery of 15th century Flemish Primitive art, he takes their use of intimate compositions and understated gestures and reworks them using contemporary imagery to create surreal yet immediate new icons for the modern age.
Please join us for the opening! You may contact us for a preview at kirsten@roqlarue.comRead More
presents
Brian Despain
"Requiarium"
new paintings
John Brophy
"Saints and Angels"
new paintings
opens Friday Nov. 13th 6-9pm
runs through Dec. 5th
Music by DJ Vodka Twist
Roq La Rue is very pleased to present two solo exhibitions by two Northwest painters, Brian Despain and John Brophy.
Brian Despain works with imagina...ry yet recognizable modern landscapes, but populates his world with seemingly self aware and melancholy robots in a seemingly endless quest for the numinous. His work blends the natural world with technology and usually has a slightly morbid slant. Archetype-loaded imagery such as skulls, gears, fish, and birds provide the forefront for a seemingly arcane number system the artist employs in all his work. His rich and somber color palettes of post apocalyptic ochres, deep blues, and steel greys belie and hidden warmth and dark humor within his work. This show will feature 8 new paintings.
John Brophy creates paintings that blend artifacts from global cultures and belief systems and juxtaposes them with the overarching affects of western consumer culture. Taking cues from the religious imagery of 15th century Flemish Primitive art, he takes their use of intimate compositions and understated gestures and reworks them using contemporary imagery to create surreal yet immediate new icons for the modern age.
Please join us for the opening! You may contact us for a preview at kirsten@roqlarue.comRead More
Time:6:00PM Friday, November 13th
Location:Roq La Rue Gallery
Roq La Rue Gallery Jim Blanchard and Belltown Art Walk Tonight!
Roq La Rue Gallery
We will be opening a new show on September 11th by artist and painter Jim Blanchard.
Jim is probably one of artists we have exhibited the longest, in fact he was in Roq La Rue's very first exhibition in 1998! We are pleased to welcome him back yet again for his solo show, "Personality Parade", featuring his trademark an...d wildly colorful portraits of off kilter pop icons and on-point idols of true hipness and bad assery. These paintings are so tightly rendered that they look like silkscreen images but are in fact painted by hand. After years of using a pen and ink stippling effect to create portraits from photographs of countercultural icons, Jim started a new series of portraits using a stash of old industrial stickers he had as back ground color fields. This current series melds the two effects (using stickers to create a graphic template which are then removed revealing paint beneath, and his meticulous line work- which sometimes replicates pixels, and sometimes not) to create an exaggerated dramatic quality to his striking graphic paintings. Subjects for this new series include Diana Rigg, Robert Mitchum, Klaus Kinski, Agnes Moorehead, Clint Eastwood, Karen Black, Sharon Tate, Charles Bronson, Marty Feldman, Pam Grier, Steve McQueen, and Lee Marvin.
Fans of underground comics may know Jim for his stint as an inker on Pete Bagge's legendary "Hate" comics and his work as art director at Fantagraphics.
Please contact us to be on a preview list, and join us for the opening if you are in the area!
70's funk and Italian film soundtrack cuts spun by DJ Vodka TwistRead More
Jim is probably one of artists we have exhibited the longest, in fact he was in Roq La Rue's very first exhibition in 1998! We are pleased to welcome him back yet again for his solo show, "Personality Parade", featuring his trademark an...d wildly colorful portraits of off kilter pop icons and on-point idols of true hipness and bad assery. These paintings are so tightly rendered that they look like silkscreen images but are in fact painted by hand. After years of using a pen and ink stippling effect to create portraits from photographs of countercultural icons, Jim started a new series of portraits using a stash of old industrial stickers he had as back ground color fields. This current series melds the two effects (using stickers to create a graphic template which are then removed revealing paint beneath, and his meticulous line work- which sometimes replicates pixels, and sometimes not) to create an exaggerated dramatic quality to his striking graphic paintings. Subjects for this new series include Diana Rigg, Robert Mitchum, Klaus Kinski, Agnes Moorehead, Clint Eastwood, Karen Black, Sharon Tate, Charles Bronson, Marty Feldman, Pam Grier, Steve McQueen, and Lee Marvin.
Fans of underground comics may know Jim for his stint as an inker on Pete Bagge's legendary "Hate" comics and his work as art director at Fantagraphics.
Please contact us to be on a preview list, and join us for the opening if you are in the area!
70's funk and Italian film soundtrack cuts spun by DJ Vodka TwistRead More
Roq La Rue Gallery Jim Blanchard's Pop Cult paintings at Roq la Rue Friday Sept. 11th. Everyone is invited!
Roq La Rue Gallery
Roq La Rue is pleased to present a solo exhibition by emerging San Francisco artist Robert Burden. Burden paints the action figures taken from his youth, in large scale formats and epic atmospheres.. These large canvases are covered in baroque-like patterning and gilt framing, and a small box containing the actual toy ...accompanies each piece.
Thinking back on the toys he played with when young, Burden remembered them as being wonderful, almost magical things, magnificent, powerful, and beautiful. As an adult Burden found a box of these old toys and found them to be nothing more than cheap, mass produced plastic. The nebulousness of what can take a cheap yet coveted piece of plastic and turn it into an almost talismanic object for a kid inspired Burden as well as the amorphous line that is drawn between imagination and reality, childhood wonder and adult practicality. He created a series of paintings based on these toys, acting almost as a funerary commemoration to the powerful force of imagination and how things are perceived before boundaries can be placed on them. While trying to express the now faded feelings of awe he had as a child, he is careful to keep the truth of what the toy is in his work, rather than imbuing its physicality with anything extra.
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Thinking back on the toys he played with when young, Burden remembered them as being wonderful, almost magical things, magnificent, powerful, and beautiful. As an adult Burden found a box of these old toys and found them to be nothing more than cheap, mass produced plastic. The nebulousness of what can take a cheap yet coveted piece of plastic and turn it into an almost talismanic object for a kid inspired Burden as well as the amorphous line that is drawn between imagination and reality, childhood wonder and adult practicality. He created a series of paintings based on these toys, acting almost as a funerary commemoration to the powerful force of imagination and how things are perceived before boundaries can be placed on them. While trying to express the now faded feelings of awe he had as a child, he is careful to keep the truth of what the toy is in his work, rather than imbuing its physicality with anything extra.
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March 14th 609pm
Time:6:00PM Friday, March 14th
Location:Roq La Rue Gallery
March 7, 2008 at 10:30pm
