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Robert Irwin
December 4, 2021–March 26, 2022
Sprüth Magers, Berlin

Capital, 2020

“Atop these commercially available objects, Irwin wraps a layer, or layers, of colored and metallic
gels, similar to those employed in theaters to give stage lights their different tonalities;
like a painter, he “blends” these hues through juxtaposition, anticipating the brilliant
visual effects that ensue and how our eyes perceive them. He also adds touches of
black and white in the form of strips of tape running vertically along the bulbs, as well
as on the sides of the light fixtures. These interventions create a feeling of depth and
recession that defy the relatively flat, bas-relief nature of the objects.”

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Staying South by Logan Lockner

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Art in America, November 17, 2021 10:53am.

Lockner’s article surveys a sample of artists based in the American South, Coulter Fussell, Katz Tepper, and Adler Guerrier.

This series of overlapping, sometimes contradictory impressions is perhaps best conveyed by Guerrier’s use of techniques such as solvent transfer and collage in works on paper that create ghostly, overlapping black-and-white images of both natural and urban landscapes, often punctuated by cascading geometric shapes or intricate compositions. These works temper representation with more opaque visual poetics, creating images of a place that feel both familiar and far away.