Winston Roeth

Born in Chicago, USA, 1945

Lives and works in Beacon, New York and Waldoboro, Maine, USA

Working with raw pigment and a tempera medium, Roeth’s spellbinding paintings have a dense matt surface that draws the viewer into the intensity of the colour alone, inviting long contemplation of the shifting picture plane. The presence and uncompromising quality of his work explore the phenomenology of colour itself. Roeth has been described as “…probably the best colour-painter in New York,” by American critic Michael Brennan. Roeth’s gridworks are reductive compositions made according to an indecisive formula, as Roeth describes his practice as exploratory. There is a vibrant intensity in his grids, a visual experience that, through contrasts in light and colour, forms a captivating final structure.

Biography

Winston Roeth was born in Chicago, USA, in 1945 and lives and works in Beacon, New York, and Waldoboro, Maine. He studied at the University of Illinois, the University of New Mexico, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Working with raw pigment and a tempera medium, Roeth's paintings have a dense matte surface that draws the viewer into the intensity of colour alone. His gridworks are reductive compositions made according to an indecisive formula; as Roeth describes his practice as exploratory, there is a vibrant intensity in these works in which contrasts of light and colour form a captivating final structure. He has been described as "probably the best colour-painter in New York" by the American critic Michael Brennan.

Roeth's work is held in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge; the Kunstmuseum, Basel; the Panza Collection, Palazzo Ducale, Sassuolo; the Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano; Museum Wiesbaden; and the Benesse House Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Japan, among others. He has exhibited regularly with Bartha Contemporary since 2012.