ROSS BLECKNER
Ross Bleckner (B. NYC in 1949 ) is an american artist currently living and working in New York. His artistic focus is on painting. He held his first solo exhibition in 1975. Some of his art work reflected on the AIDS epidemic are an investigation of change, loss, and memory, often suggesting meditations on the body, health and disease, much like a memento mori.
His immersive paintings, whether pure abstraction of stripes or dots, or more representational renderings of birds, flowers, and brains, elicit a powerful hypnotic and dizzying effect. Smoothly layered on the canvas surface against a darker gray background, Bleckner’s famous multicolored volumetric circles or “cells” look like droplets of blood or molecules viewed under a microscope.
Selected past exhibitions:
Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY (2024)
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria (2020)
Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany (2020)
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, MI, USA (2017)
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX, United States (2017)
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, USA (2014)
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (2003)
Museo Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (1996)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (1995)
Selected public collections:
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
LACMA, LA USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Ross Bleckner
Black Dome
1999
acrylic on canvas
150 x 150 cm
