R.H. Quaytman

Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York

Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

San Francisco, SFMOMA, New Work: R.H. Quaytman, October 2010 - January 2011

A trailblazing contemporary artist, R.H. Quaytman is most often noted for her decades-long “chapters'' series. These “chapters” -- each sequentially titled and individually composed -- encapsulate designated and cohesive sets of paintings. Each grouping evokes an individual meaning as well as an specific significance within the larger sequence of chapters. Within a greater context, each chapter exists in congruence with the chapters that come before and after it. These works are “executed on plywood panels that conform to a consistent set of geometrically interrelated dimensions. Screen-printed photographic imagery appears in each chapter, as do abstract compositions. Despite these rigorously held consistencies, Quaytman’s work is not reducible to a systematically applied set of rules. Instead, the artist uses these parameters to explore an array of subjects, while maintaining an overarching, ongoing investigation of the factors that enable a painting to generate meaning, whether they be its content, its mode of production, or the context in which it is encountered.”

Guggenheim Museum, R. H. Quaytman.