Join Los Angeles-based artist Rob Reynolds for a talk about his work in painting, sculpture, video, sound, and augmented reality (AR). Reynolds will discuss his ongoing project, A Fragile Absolute, which emerges from extensive travels with earth scientists in the Arctic, and the making of his film The Word for Weather is Knowledge, filmed in Greenland in the summer of 2019. 

Part of Getty’s region-wide initiative PST ART: Art and Science Collide, the Hammer presents Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, organized by guest co-curators Glenn Kaino and Mika Yoshitake. The exhibition considers environmental art practices that address the climate crisis and anthropogenic disasters and their inescapable intersection with issues of equity and social justice. Breath(e) features works by more than 20 artists, including works by Mel Chin, Ron Finley, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Garnett Puett, and Lan Tuazon, commissioned specially for this exhibition.

Breath(e) was conceived during the height of the global COVID-19 pandemic and America’s racial reckoning in 2020, and as such explores pressing issues related to the ethics of climate justice, while proposing pragmatic and philosophical approaches to spur discussion and resolution. The exhibition strives to challenge and deconstruct polarized political attitudes surrounding climate justice in America and offers new perspectives around land and indigenous rights of nature.

Artists

Brandon Ballengée
Mel Chin
Tiffany Chung
Ron Finley
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Ryoji Ikeda
ikkibawiKrrr
Michael Joo
Danil Krivoruchko
Xin Liu
Yoshitomo Nara
Otobong Nkanga

Roxy Paine
Garnett Puett
Rob Reynolds
Sandy Rodriguez
Sarah Rosalena
Bently Spang
Mika Tajima
Clarissa Tossin
Lan Tuazon
Yangkura
Jin-me Yoon
Zheng Mahler

Part of Getty’s region-wide initiative PST ART: Art and Science Collide, the Hammer presents Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, organized by guest co-curators Glenn Kaino and Mika Yoshitake. The exhibition considers environmental art practices that address the climate crisis and anthropogenic disasters and their inescapable intersection with issues of equity and social justice. Breath(e) features works by more than 20 artists, including works by Mel Chin, Ron Finley, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Garnett Puett, and Lan Tuazon, commissioned specially for this exhibition.

Breath(e) was conceived during the height of the global COVID-19 pandemic and America’s racial reckoning in 2020, and as such explores pressing issues related to the ethics of climate justice, while proposing pragmatic and philosophical approaches to spur discussion and resolution. The exhibition strives to challenge and deconstruct polarized political attitudes surrounding climate justice in America and offers new perspectives around land and indigenous rights of nature.

ARTISTS

Brandon Ballengée
Mel Chin
Tiffany Chung
Ron Finley
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Ryoji Ikeda
ikkibawiKrrr
Michael Joo
Danil Krivoruchko
Xin Liu
Yoshitomo Nara
Otobong Nkanga

Roxy Paine
Garnett Puett
Rob Reynolds
Sandy Rodriguez
Sarah Rosalena
Bently Spang
Mika Tajima
Clarissa Tossin
Lan Tuazon
Yangkura
Jin-me Yoon
Zheng Mahler

Rob Reynolds will be in conversation at the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles on 15 February 2020 at 1:30 pm.

As part of the new Berggruen Institute Transformations of the Human (ToftH) program, artist Rob Reynolds discusses his work as part of a TofTH project cluster on icebergs and the human with philosopher and anthropologist Tobias Rees and founder of Oceans & Ice Lab David Sutherland.

Rob Reynolds will be included in "DOES IT MAKE A SOUND" at Ochi Gallery, 31 December 2018 - 18 February 2019.

albertz benda & Friedman Benda are pleased to present the group exhibition Under the Night Sky, on view from 25 October - 15 December 2018, featuring a new work by Rob Reynolds. The night sky remains an enduring source of inspiration. For millennia, this universal cover of darkness at once symbolizes life and death, fascination, fear, immortality, regernation, and a blank slate for our projected dreams and desires. 

Under the Night Sky explores the numerous ways in which the frontier of the night sky influences the human psyche and continues to hold artists in its grip. Spanning the spaces of Friedman Benda and albertz benda, the exhibition bring together significant works by modern, post-war, and contemporary artists and designers with a selection of seminal Central Asian rugs. The works in the exhibition engage with the night sky on both conscious and unconscious levels, featuring the interplay between literal homages to the night sky and works with looser interpretations of the theme, whose makers innately channel the emotive presence of night.

The ART Hotel in Denver, CO commissioned Rob Reynolds to create the site-specific, large-scale outdoor installation, An Ocean View for Denver, 2017.

"This image comments upon notions of idealized beach scenes with a dead-pan and subtle, but sweetly satirical play on the notion of a ‘view,’” said Dianne Vanderlip, esteemed curator of the ART hotel, who previously served as the founding curator of modern and contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum. “It’s assembled to create an idealized, fantasy image of a resort seascape.”

Ochi Gallery is pleased to present Most Painted Mountain, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Rob Reynolds. The paintings in this new body of work refer directly to iconic mountains on five continents. Formally the paintings resemble alpine landscapes, rendered meticulously in relation to recent photographs sourced in the public domain and published on the Internet. Initially apprehended in the register of representational picture making – as the viewer moves closer the imagery dissolves into the pure materiality of paint. The surfaces of these works are hyper-refined in some passages, offset by several visibly distinct layers of paint, and Reynolds manages to capture the awe-inspiring mountain sky and light with exceptional accuracy, nodding to the Light and Space artists’ interest in tempered atmosphere. Reynolds also pays homage to Andy Warhol’s Do It Yourself, paint by numbers series from the 1960s— leaving areas for the viewer to visually fill in the blanks, while also creating a metaphoric ghost-like effect within the snowy mountains.

LAXART is pleased to present Rob Reynolds: Vanishing Point, a solo exhibition of new works by Rob Reynolds.

11 April - 31 May 2015

Rob Reynolds is included in 'Blessed Oblivion,' an exhibition of Los Angeles-based artists at GAVLAK Palm Beach.

Lisa Anne Auerbach, Judie Bamber, Mary Corse, Zoe Crosher, Lecia Dole-Recio, Francesca Gabbiani Ruscha, Mark Grotjahn, Michael John Kelly, Robert Levine, Catherine Opie, Lari Pittman, Rob Reynolds, Ed Ruscha, Aaron Sandnes, Jim Shaw, Lily Stockman, Vincent Szarek, Britton Tolliver, and Brian Wills.

25 November 2014 - 5 January 2015

Rob Reynolds will be included in Chinatown, Revisited, a panel discusion at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County regarding the impact of water in Southern California. Followed by a closing reception and viewing of Rob Reynolds' exhibition Just Add Water: Artworks Inspired by the L.A. Aqueduct.

PANELISTS: Lauren Bon, Metabolic Studio, Jim McDaniel, Senior Assistant General Manager at LADWP, Rob Reynolds, Artist. Moderated by Jon Christensen, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Editor of Boom.
 

Thursday 24 July 2014

In celebration of Brown University’s 250^th Anniversary, the David Winton Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art present a series of one-person exhibitions by distinguished alumni. The works of Dawn Clements ‘86, Paul Ramirez Jonas ‘87, and Kerry Tribe ‘97 will be on view from February 15 to March 30.  The second round of exhibitions, featuring the work of Sarah Morris ‘89, Rob Reynolds ‘90, and Taryn Simon ‘97 will be shown from April 12 through May 25.

12 April - 25 May 2014

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is pleased to present Just Add Water: Artworks Inspired by the L.A. Aqueduct, featuring new work by Rob Reynolds.Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Reynolds has created 10 original, large-scale watercolors that interpret the epic significance of the Aqueduct, through the lenses of history, geography, and time.  In each, Reynolds references key sites and historical moments aligned with the Aqueduct’s 233-mile route and 100-year history.

5 November 2013 - 3 August 2014

Rob Reynolds is included in the group show Sea Scapes Between the Lines opening on 5 September 2013 at Highlight Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

5 September - 5 October 2013

Truth&Beauty is pleased to announce the opening of Funhouse (part 1), an exhibition organized by Rob Reynolds and Craig Wadlin, 16 February 2013, 6 -10 pm. Funhouse (part 1) displays work by a dozen American artists: ART CLUB2000, Patterson Beckwith, Louise Bonnet, Josh Callaghan, Mark Chiat, Wendy Edwards, Steve Ellis, Danny McDonald, Jack Pierson, Rob Reynolds, Haim Steinbach, and Thomas Zummer.

16 February - 30 March 2013

978 Chung King Road, Los Angeles CA, 90012

Rob Reynolds will be included in Common Tread: Traversing the American Landscape, a group exhibition curated by Martha Lourdes Rocha and Martin Lorigan. Common Tread: Traversing the American Landscape will be on view at Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton from 8 September - 11 October 2012.