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In this painting, the artist embraces both the simplicity and complexity of natural forms by wandering further into the ever-expanding possibilities of abstraction. Here, the branches of an oak tree have been drawn to resemble synapses. Meanwhile, the oak’s root structure below mirrors its branches above, serving as a metaphor for the layers of the painting.
Framed: 17.0 x 14.0 x 1.5 in.
Signed

① Artwork:

Oak

In this painting, the artist embraces both the simplicity and complexity of natural forms by wandering further into the ever-expanding possibilities of abstraction. Here, the branches of an oak tree have been drawn to resemble synapses. Meanwhile, the oak’s root structure below mirrors its branches above, serving as a metaphor for the layers of the painting.

Rives Granade is interested in the changeability of form in his paintings, particularly as it relates to ideas of translation and reinterpretation. His protean marks are heavily influenced by modernist forms of expressionism and tend to occupy a space between abstraction and representation. In his work, images subtly emerge, become legible and dissipate.

Specs:

11 inches
14 inches
with frame
14 inches
17 inches
1.5 inches
17 inches

③ Artist:

Rives Granade

Rives Granade is interested in the changeability of form in his paintings, particularly as it relates to ideas of translation and re-interpretation. His protean marks are heavily influenced by modernist forms of expressionism and tend to occupy a space between abstraction and representation. In his work, images subtly emerge, become legible and dissipate.

Rives Granade was born in 1979 in Mobile, AL, and lives in Los Angeles, CA. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA (2008) and a BA in philosophy from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA (2002).

Granade has mounted solo and two-person exhibitions at OCHI Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2022, 2018, 2015); Ochi Gallery in Ketchum, ID (2019); and Duncan Miller Project Space in Santa Monica, CA (2011).

His work has also been featured in group exhibitions, including Does It Make a Sound at Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID (2019); Please Have Enough Acid in the Dish at M+B, Los Angeles, CA (2016); Flat Foldability at Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2016); and Here There Be Tigers at Gallery Lara, Tokyo, Japan (2014), among others.

Rives Granade:
Oak, 2021
Graphite, ink, oil, gesso on canvas
14.0 × 11.0 inches /