Contemporary + Modern: Art & Design
Fri, Jun 10, 2022 01:00AM EDT
Lot 13
WARREN ROSSER "Mainframe Tracks" (1999 Acrylic)
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$1,200
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Warren Rosser
(Missouri, b. 1942)
Mainframe Tracks, 1999
Acrylic on canvas
72" x 84"
A major work of exceptional size by the longtime Chair of the Kansas City Art Institute's painting department. The painting was created during a pivotal time in the artist's career, a period of transition from primarily sculptural work to two-dimensional acrylic paintings. Using non-traditional applicators such as squeegees, stencils, and wide pallette knives, Rosser sought to utilize a novel artistic language as a means of exploring uniquely dimensional imagery not beholden to the outmoded tradition of an apparent artist's brushstrokes.
The work is marker-signed, dated, and titled to the reverse of the canvas, with a Jan Weiner gallery label affixed to the center stretcher bar.
Exhibition History: Alternate Tracking: Recent Paintings, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, March 11-May 28, 2000. Illustration 3 in the exhibition catalog, which contains an essay by Dr. David Moos of the Birmingham Museum of Art that mentions this painting by name twice.
Provenance: A private Kansas City collection, acquired in 2019 from the estate collection of Scott Tucker, previously from the Jan Weiner Gallery (Kansas City, MO).
Very good condition, with no issues noted under blacklight inspection.
(Missouri, b. 1942)
Mainframe Tracks, 1999
Acrylic on canvas
72" x 84"
A major work of exceptional size by the longtime Chair of the Kansas City Art Institute's painting department. The painting was created during a pivotal time in the artist's career, a period of transition from primarily sculptural work to two-dimensional acrylic paintings. Using non-traditional applicators such as squeegees, stencils, and wide pallette knives, Rosser sought to utilize a novel artistic language as a means of exploring uniquely dimensional imagery not beholden to the outmoded tradition of an apparent artist's brushstrokes.
The work is marker-signed, dated, and titled to the reverse of the canvas, with a Jan Weiner gallery label affixed to the center stretcher bar.
Exhibition History: Alternate Tracking: Recent Paintings, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, March 11-May 28, 2000. Illustration 3 in the exhibition catalog, which contains an essay by Dr. David Moos of the Birmingham Museum of Art that mentions this painting by name twice.
Provenance: A private Kansas City collection, acquired in 2019 from the estate collection of Scott Tucker, previously from the Jan Weiner Gallery (Kansas City, MO).