Estate of Jake Berthot [1939 – 2014]
THE RIDGE, NIGHT HAZE
AND THE MOON, 2008
Oil on linen
35 1/8 x 45 1/8 inches
89.22 x 114.62 cm
JB12494
GRANGERS PASS, 2006
Oil on linen over panel
22 1/4 x 24 7/8 inches
56.52 x 63.18 cm
JB12327
UNTITLED, 2007
Pencil on paper
23 x 20 3/4 inches
58.42 x 52.71 cm
JB12424
TESTING TREE (TYRANT AND
TARGET) STANLEY KUNITZ, 2007
Oil on linen over panel
46 1/4 x 52 inches
117.48 x 132.08 cm
JB12495
UNTITLED, 2007
Pencil on paper
22 1/4 x 25 3/4 inches
56.52 x 65.41 cm
JB12423
QUARTET (NEAR DARK /
NEAR DARK), 2006-07
Oil on linen over panel
26 1/8 x 19 1/4 inches
66.36 x 48.9 cm
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Jake Berthot
April 10 – May 10, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 10, 6 – 8pm
New York, Thursday, February 28, 2008. Betty Cuningham Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Jake Berthot at 541 West 25th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues, New York City from April 10 through May 10, 2008. This is the second solo exhibition for Jake Berthot at the Betty Cuningham Gallery. Composed of approximately fourteen paintings and a selection of drawings, the show draws from Berthot’s work over the past three years. A fully illustrated publication with Berthot’s “Notes from Notes to Myself” accompanies the exhibition. The artist will be present for an opening reception on Thursday, April 10th from 6-8pm.
The paintings range in size from 19 x 18 inches to 46 x 52 inches. Each is a quiet contemplative, typically dark, space with reference to landscape. Landscape entered into Berthot’s painting following his move from New York City to upstate New York in 1996. These new works continue to have the central deep meditative space of his earlier work, in the 1970’s a gently touched rectangle, in the 1980’s a bar or hovering oval, and now a quietly emerging tree or glimpse of light.
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