Roy De Forest: Selected Works
Brian Gross Fine Art is pleased to announce Roy De Forest: Selected Works, a focus exhibition highlighting works by this renowned Bay Area artist, opening Thursday, July 15, 2021. Featuring an early painting, a rare construction from the 1960s, and works on paper, the exhibition highlights important early works by Roy De Forest (1930-2007) as well as the brightly colored, folk-like landscapes with figures and animals for which he is famous. The exhibition will be on view through August 28, 2021.
Recognized as one of the most original painters of his generation, Roy De Forest's unique and beloved viewpoint can be seen in the selection of works in the exhibit. The Giant Dog's Dilemma (1970) is a significant painting marking De Forest's transition from his abstracted "aerial landscape" paintings of the 1960s to the celebrated pictorial landscapes of his mature work. In it we see a silhouetted figure inside of a log cabin looking out at a giant dog holding a fallen tree in its mouth, while the foreground is loosely divided up into semi-abstracted areas containing depictions of a rabbit, shovel, and other Western imagery.