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James Nares: ROAD PAINT

Past exhibition
May 8 – June 22, 2013 293 Tenth Avenue, New York
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  • Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present ROAD PAINT, a selection of new paintings by James Nares, on view from 8 May – 22 June 2013 at 293 Tenth Avenue in New York. These works continue the artist’s ongoing kinetic investigations—exploring the form, direction, rhythm, and repetition of objects in motion. The result of a completely new technique developed by Nares exclusively for this exhibition, this unique practice seeks to capture movement’s own moment of creation, its own primal genesis.

  • Installation view, James Nares: ROAD PAINT New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, May 8, 2013 – June 22, 2013 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, James Nares: ROAD PAINT New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, May 8, 2013 – June 22, 2013 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, James Nares: ROAD PAINT New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, May 8, 2013 – June 22, 2013 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, James Nares: ROAD PAINT New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, May 8, 2013 – June 22, 2013 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
  • Recalling the extremely slow frame rate of STREET, Nares slows down the processes of action and creation in his ROAD PAINT series in order to fastidiously record the minute nuances of movement. Isolating the idiosyncratic in the industrial, Nares utilizes a mechanical road striper to run extremely viscous white paint across the black ground of his canvases. Within the fresh strokes, tiny glass beads known as microspheres are deposited, producing an iridescent effect. This highly mechanical but also poetic process creates paintings that inventively echo the organic imagery of his well-known brushstroke paintings, as both uniquely record the passage of the mark-maker through both space and time.

    Nares’ film STREET has recently been exhibited at the Wadsworth Atheneum (2012), the Saint Louis Art Museum (2012–2013), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (2013). STREET, is currently on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York alongside more than 60 works selected by Nares from the Metropolitan’s diverse collections, March 5 – May 27, 2013.

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    • Jamie Nares, Crosstown Traffic, 2013
      Jamie Nares, Crosstown Traffic, 2013
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    • Jamie Nares, Burn Rubber, 2013
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    • Jamie Nares, Broadway Rap, 2013
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    • Jamie Nares, Hit the Road, 2013
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    • Jamie Nares, Blacktop, 2013
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    • Jamie Nares, Track, 2013
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  • About the Artist

    Jamie Nares
    Photo by Charlie Rubin

    Jamie Nares

    Over the course of a five-decade career, Jamie Nares has investigated, challenged, and expanded the boundaries of her multi-media practice that encompasses film, music, painting, photography, and performance. She continues to employ various media to explore physicality, motion, and the unfolding of time.  

    Nares has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and a career-spanning retrospective at the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2019. Her work is included in several prominent public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. A career-spanning survey of her film and video works were presented in 2008 at the Anthology Film Archives, New York, and in 2011 at the IFC Center, New York. In 2014, Rizzoli published the most comprehensive monograph on Nares’ career to date. Nares has lived and worked in New York since 1974. She has been represented by Kasmin since 1991.

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