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GRIMM presents
Rosalind Nashashibi
16 Oct - 21 Nov
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GRIMM is pleased to present new works by Rosalind Nashashibi, coinciding with the artist's exhibition at the gallery's Van Baerlestraat location in Amsterdam. Nashashibi's new body of work has taken shape during her year-long residency at The National Gallery, London (UK). This is Nashashibi's second solo exhibition at the gallery and her first solo exhibition at GRIMM Amsterdam.
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Rosalind Nashashibi extracts elements from historic painting and imbues them with new significance and expressiveness, often in combination with autobiographical details. Nashashibi’s free and vivid color palette, and the intimate physical presence of her works give them an openness, in a way that relates to the everyday language between close relations, unencumbered by convention and subject to a more direct kind of understanding.
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During Nashashibi's residency at The National Gallery, London paintings by Uccello, Titian, and Impressionists such as Bonnard, have become points of inquiry from which the artist has drawn connections and new directions of departure in her practice. Of particular interest to the artist is the way in which events—whether historical moments or mundane occurrences—can be depicted to allow space for changing, unfixed meaning. The artist will be the subject of a solo exhibition at The National Gallery, London in November 2020 with a forthcoming publication that will be released, concurrently.
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Black Soil
Animals and human subjects appear in a non-located background, where their significance can be explored by other signs, such as animals or fruit or pattern. She uses framing devices and cropping that block the viewer’s total understanding of her subjects — forms are doubled, and images are overlaid in such a way that situates the viewer within the picture, rather than as an observer or witness to a larger narrative.
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Untitled (PG)
In Untitled (PG), Paul Gauguin is depicted hiding behind a striped missionary dress. Nashashibi has pulled both the image of the dress and the bust of Gauguin from two of the artist’s iconic paintings. Although the referent nature of this and other works invites complex discussions, particularly where historical conventions are cast in relief to our current moment, Nashashibi’s paintings remain open-ended.
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For further information or inquiry on any of the featured works,
please email enquiry@grimmgallery.com
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More information
Installation views | Rosalind Nashashibi | GRIMM, Van Baerlestraat -
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About the artist
Rosalind Nashashibi (b. 1973 in Croydon, UK) received her BA in Painting from Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (UK) in 1995, after which she attended the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK) where she received her MFA in 2000. As part of her Master’s degree, Nashashibi participated in a three-month exchange program in Valencia, California (US) at CalArts in 2000. Currently she is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths University in London (UK). Nashashibi became the first artist in residence at the National Gallery in London (UK), after the program was re-established in 2020. She was a Turner Prize nominee in 2017, and represented Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Her work has been included in Documenta 14, Manifesta 7, the Nordic Triennial, and Sharjah 10. She was the first woman to win the Beck’s Futures prize in 2003.
The artist will have an upcoming solo exhibition at the National Gallery of London in November 2020, as well as forthcoming solo shows at Musée Art Contemporain Carré d’Art - Jean Bousquet, Nîmes (FR) and at Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (LT) in 2021.
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Further readings
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Rosalind Nashashibi announced as 2020 National Gallery Artist in Residence
September 4, 2019 -
‘One day, I wanted to make something’: why Rosalind Nashashibi swapped her camera for canvas
March 19, 2020 -
Rosalind Nashashibi featured in Royal Academy's Summer-Winter 2020 Exhibition
October 6, 2020 For the first time in history, the Summer Exhibition will fall in winter. But at the RA, summer is a state of mind, not a time of year. Discover a... -
From February 16, 2020 to January 10, 2021, Between Ears, New Colours, a group exhibition with Elena Narbutaitė and Hagar Schmidhalter, with the participation of Rosalind Nashashibi, curated by Elfi Turpin.
February 16, 2020 From February 16, 2020 to January 10, 2021, Between Ears, New Colours , a group exhibition with Elena Narbutaitė and Hagar Schmidhalter, with the participation of Rosalind Nashashibi, curated by...
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