David Rathman Home Schooled Solo Exhibition Opens Saturday, September 12th On view September 12 through October 17, 2020 Rathman worked from his home studio, and in a garage in western Montana over the summer of 2020. “The open garage doors provided fresh breezes and a view of McGregor Peak and the Kootenai National Forest. It was perfect; life changes and new studio environs help create and define new work. Impacted as we all are by the pandemic, in very uncertain times, I stayed close to my family and felt grounded and motivated to create, paint, and draw. It is a time to ascertain priorities and affirm the things that give us joy and motivation. I’m a lucky man; I find that affirmation over and over again in my work. Town and country, streets and buildings, cars, afternoon light, nocturnes, solitary figures, horizons and landscapes delineate these new paintings and drawings. Being in my home state of Montana for a month was so satisfying and inspiring. I worked with watercolor, also pen and ink with ink washes; which is a return to drawing for me. Using line and the physicality of the nib pens is exciting, it feels like a homecoming of sorts. I did a lot of pen and ink work early in my career and enjoyed the directness, speed and fluidity of the medium. It’s really nice to get back to it, expanding my approaches to picture making.” – David Rathman David Rathman (b. Choteau, Montana) lives and works in Minneapolis. He is known for his sensitively rendered paintings of motifs from American history and contemporary culture. Rathman’ s work “presents themselves as fractured narratives – a singular, crucial moment of action in an otherwise protracted story that has been gradually unfolding out of view”. (Rochester Art Center). Notable exhibitions include Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA; Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando , FL; Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN; Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA; Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY; Salisbury University Art Gallery, MD; Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan, Italy; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Whitebox, New York, NY; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY; to name a few. Rathman’ s artwork can be found in the following public collections Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND; to name a few.
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David Rathman 4 pm, 2020 ink on paper 13.5 x 17.5 inches framed SOLD
David Rathman 10th Avenue, 2020 watercolor and ink on paper 12.5 x 15.5 inches framed SOLD
David Rathman Arrival, 2020 watercolor on paper 13.25 x 17.75 inches framed SOLD
David Rathman Augusta, 2020 watercolor on paper 13.5 x 17.5 inches framed $1,300
David Rathman Cut Across, 2020 ink on paper 13.5 x 17.5 inches framed SOLD
David Rathman Dillon, 2020 ink on paper 13.5 x 17.5 inches framed $1,000
David Rathman Dodge, 2020 ink on paper 13.5 x 17.5 inches framed SOLD
David Rathman End of Summer, 2020 watercolor on paper 13.25 x 17.25 inches framed SOLD
David Rathman Fade Away, 2020 watercolor on paper 15.25 x 20.5 inches framed $1,750
David Rathman Harlowton, 2020 ink on paper 13.5 x 17.5 inches framed $1,000
David Rathman In Bloom, 2020 ink on paper 13.5 x 17.5 inches framed SOLD
David Rathman I’ve Been Everywhere, 2020 watercolor on paper 13.5 x 17.5 inches framed SOLD
David Rathman Loading Zone, 2020 ink and watercolor on paper 17.5 x 15.25 inches framed $1,450
David Rathman Local Memory, 2020 watercolor on paper 13 x 17.5 inches framed SOLD
David Rathman On the Bank, 2020 ink on paper 13.5 x 17.5 inches framed $1,000
David Rathman One in the Same, 2020 watercolor on paper 12.75 x 20 inches framed SOLD
David Rathman Range Life, 2020 ink on paper 13.5 x 17.5 inches framed $1,000
David Rathman Round Here, 2019 watercolor on paper 14.5 x 20 inches framed $1,600
David Rathman Roxy Theatre, 2020 ink on paper 14 x 18 inches framed $1,350
David Rathman Small Hours, 2020 watercolor on paper 13.5 x 17.5 inches framed $1,300
David Rathman The Clearing, 2020 ink on paper 13.5 x 17.5 inches framed $1,000
David Rathman Transfiguration, 2020 watercolor on paper 12.5 x 19.75 inches framed $1,250
David Rathman Trolling, 2020 watercolor on paper 16.5 x 17.25 inches framed SOLD