Winston Roeth
Speed of Light
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| Editor(s) | Museum Wiesbaden, Jörg Daur, Lea Schäfer |
| Author(s) | Jörg Daur, Andrew Jensen, Lea Schäfer |
| Design | Frank Bernhard Übler |
| Cover | Hardcover with flush cut |
| Size | 24 x 30 cm |
| Pages | 136 |
| Illustrations | 109 color and 2 b/w |
| Language(s) | German, English |
| ISBN | 978-3-96912-010-1 |
Color Is Light
Intense monochrome areas of color, radiant pigments, and multifaceted surfaces are the characteristics of the art of Winston Roeth (b. Chicago, 1945; lives and works in Beacon, New York, and Waldoboro, Maine). He has devoted himself to abstract color field painting since the 1970s, with the grid as a leitmotif running through his oeuvre; both are fraught with painterly memories of light, “a light that can jump out and grasp the beholders, a color saturation that throbs with a deep glow,” as the artist himself puts it. It emanates from the strata of paint in his pictures, encountering the light that, falling upon his works, molds their chromatic effect. Roeth experiments with pure pigments, which he mixes by hand to make paints he applies in layers to diverse media including paper, aluminum, honeycomb, slate, and wood panels. The book documents a tour of an exhibition, presenting works dating from between the early 1990s and 2020.
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