Untitled Golden/Green Rectangle, 2020. Dropcloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 74 x 48 x 7.5 inches, 190 x 122 x 19 cm.
Untitled Blunted Red Bars, 2021. Dyed canvas on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 35 x 25.5 x 5 inches, 89 x 57 x 13 cm.
Untitled Blunted Black Rectangle, 2021. Dropcloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 45 x 21 x 5 inches, 114 x 53 x 13 cm.
Untitled Blue Rectangle, 2021. Drop cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 40.5 x 19.5 x 5.5 inches, 103 x 50 x 14 cm.
Untitled Green Segment II, 2021. Dropcloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 43.5 x 36 x 5 inches, 111 x 91 x 13 cm.
Untitled White Guillotine, 2021. Drop cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 84 x 36 x 7 inches, 213 x 91 x 18 cm.
Untitled Deep Blue Bars, 2021. Dropcloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 44.5 x 40 x 5.5 inches, 113 x 102 x 14 cm.
Untitled Blunted Blue Rectangle, 2021. Drop cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 48 x 55.5 x 6 inches, 122 x 141 x 15 cm.
Untitled Horizontal Olive Rectangle, 2021. Dropcloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 27 x 78 x 5 inches, 69 x 198 x 13 cm.
Untitled Mauve Rectangle II, 2021. Drop cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 96.5 x 14.5 x 5.5 inches, 245 x 37 x 14 cm.
Untitled Two-Toned Yellow Rectangle, 2021. Dyed cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 13 x 86 x 5 inches, 33 x 218 x 13 cm.
Untitled Broken Red Line, 2021. Drop cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 55 x 48 x 6 inches, 140 x 122 x 15.2 cm.
Untitled Two Dark Red Rectangles, 2021. Dropcloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 60 x 20 x 5 inches, 152 x 51 x 13 cm.
Untitled Turquoise Diptych, 2021. Drop cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 30 x 126 x 6 inches, 76 x 320 x 15 cm.
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The Hole is pleased to announce The Concept of Calm, the gallery’s second solo exhibition of sculptural wall works by Robert Moreland. Subtly inhabiting the space in restrained three-dimensional hangings, Moreland’s objects offer an emotional tenor often absent from the formal severity of other minimalist work.
In his wall works, maquettes, and freestanding objects, Moreland’s constructions represent an arresting intersection between painting and sculpture. With hand-stretched canvases along angled wooden beams, held together cleanly by hinges, tacks, and leather straps, Moreland’s works are as much an investigation of material as they are a declaration of objective unity on a minimalist picture plane. Jutting into the gallery space, and often warped or creased along parallel lines like folding partitions or the pages of a book, Moreland’s large works minutely alter the space they are in, provoking a relationship of direct proximity with their viewers.
“A work needs only to be interesting,” Donald Judd declared in his 1965 essay, “Specific Objects.” “The thing as a whole, its quality as a whole, is what is interesting.” In his unified formalism and masterful craftwork, Moreland shows himself here as a successor to Judd—albeit, by hand-making his objects rather than formulating their industrial fabrication. While the latter’s near-scientific focus on purely formal qualities now reads as aggressively masculine, Moreland is willing to acknowledge that minimalism carries its own specific affects and responses. The works which compose The Concept of Calm, crafted in isolation over this past year, and the outcome of the artist’s intensive twelve-hour daily studio practice, involve and project this emotion from within, contemplating its qualities through their crystalline imposition on the surrounding gallery space.
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Untitled Golden/Green Rectangle, 2020. Dropcloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 74 x 48 x 7.5 inches, 190 x 122 x 19 cm.
Untitled Blunted Red Bars, 2021. Dyed canvas on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 35 x 25.5 x 5 inches, 89 x 57 x 13 cm.
Untitled Blunted Black Rectangle, 2021. Dropcloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 45 x 21 x 5 inches, 114 x 53 x 13 cm.
Untitled Blue Rectangle, 2021. Drop cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 40.5 x 19.5 x 5.5 inches, 103 x 50 x 14 cm.
Untitled Green Segment II, 2021. Dropcloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 43.5 x 36 x 5 inches, 111 x 91 x 13 cm.
Untitled White Guillotine, 2021. Drop cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 84 x 36 x 7 inches, 213 x 91 x 18 cm.
Untitled Deep Blue Bars, 2021. Dropcloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 44.5 x 40 x 5.5 inches, 113 x 102 x 14 cm.
Untitled Blunted Blue Rectangle, 2021. Drop cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 48 x 55.5 x 6 inches, 122 x 141 x 15 cm.
Untitled Horizontal Olive Rectangle, 2021. Dropcloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 27 x 78 x 5 inches, 69 x 198 x 13 cm.
Untitled Mauve Rectangle II, 2021. Drop cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 96.5 x 14.5 x 5.5 inches, 245 x 37 x 14 cm.
Untitled Two-Toned Yellow Rectangle, 2021. Dyed cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 13 x 86 x 5 inches, 33 x 218 x 13 cm.
Untitled Broken Red Line, 2021. Drop cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 55 x 48 x 6 inches, 140 x 122 x 15.2 cm.
Untitled Two Dark Red Rectangles, 2021. Dropcloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 60 x 20 x 5 inches, 152 x 51 x 13 cm.
Untitled Turquoise Diptych, 2021. Drop cloth on wooden panel with acrylic paint, tacks and leather hinges, 30 x 126 x 6 inches, 76 x 320 x 15 cm.