Danielle Riede + Kelsie Rudolph
Holding the Sun · Living with Room
Color to hold, form to live with.
Bozeman, 2020
Through the darkest weeks of a pandemic winter, two bodies of work shared the gallery and warmed it. In Holding the Sun, Danielle Riede builds her paintings from oil and plaster — relief surfaces that catch and hold light the way a wall holds late afternoon. Titles like Dancing with Delauney, Pulse and Kiss announce their register: chromatic, bodily, joyful.
Eight paintings shipped from Indianapolis; a room of ceramics built to be lived in.In Living with Room, Kelsie Rudolph extends ceramics to the scale of furniture — chairs, stools, lamps and vessels in matte, architectural color. Her lounge chair and flower chair are not depictions of domestic life but working parts of it: the show proposed a room where every object, painting and seat alike, holds its own color and asks you to stay.
Installation views
Paintings that hold the light.
Danielle Riede builds relief paintings in oil and plaster, shipped to Bozeman from her Indianapolis studio for this exhibition. Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Centre d'art contemporain Walter Benjamin in Perpignan, France, and she is represented by Garvey Simon, New York.
Ceramics at the scale of a room.
Kelsie Rudolph makes ceramic furniture and vessels — chairs, stools, lamps — in matte, architectural color, extending clay from the shelf to the floor plan. Living with Room proposed her objects not as sculpture about domestic life but as working parts of it.