Navigating Pigment

2 March - 6 April 2024

Navigating Pigment

ROSEGALLERY
Manfred Müller & Shaun McCracken
2 March - 6 April 2024

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  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #644, 2023-24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #644, 2023-24
    Signed dated and titled on Verso
    Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel
    8 x 10 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #694, 2023-24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #694, 2023-24
    Signed dated and titled on Verso
    Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel
    8 x 10 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #693, 2023-24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #693, 2023-24
    Signed dated and titled on Verso
    Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel
    8 x 10 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #888, 2023-24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #888, 2023-24
    Signed dated and titled on Verso
    Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel
    9 x 7 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #887, 2023-24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #887, 2023-24
    Signed dated and titled on Verso
    Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel
    9 x 7 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #692, 2018-19
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #692, 2018-19
    Signed dated and titled on Verso
    Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel
    9 x 7 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #868, 2018-19
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #868, 2018-19
    Signed dated and titled on Verso
    Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel
    12.25 x 9 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #625, 2018-19
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #625, 2018-19
    Signed dated and titled on Verso
    Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel
    11 1/8 x 9 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #881, 2016 - 24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #881, 2016 - 24
    Signed, dated, and title on verso
    Mixed Media on Paper
    12 x 9 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #882, 2016 - 24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #882, 2016 - 24
    Signed, dated, and title on verso
    Mixed Media on Paper
    12 x 9 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #883, 2016 - 24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #883, 2016 - 24
    Signed, dated, and title on verso
    Mixed Media on Paper
    12 x 9 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #685, 2021-2023
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #685, 2021-2023
    Signed dated and titled on Verso
    Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel
    20 x 16 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #689 , 2021-2023
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #689 , 2021-2023
    Signed dated and titled on Verso
    Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel
    20 x 16 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #358, , 2016-2024
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #358, , 2016-2024
    Signed dated and titled on Verso
    Egg Tempera on Gessoed Panel
    20 x 16 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #875, 2016 - 24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #875, 2016 - 24
    Signed, dated, and title on verso
    Mixed Media on Paper
    12 x 9 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #874, 2016 - 24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #874, 2016 - 24
    Signed, dated, and title on verso
    Mixed Media on Paper
    12 x 9 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #873, 2016 - 24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #873, 2016 - 24
    Signed, dated, and title on verso
    Mixed Media on Paper
    12 x 9 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #872, 2016 - 24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #872, 2016 - 24
    Signed, dated, and title on verso
    Mixed Media on Paper
    12 x 9 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #871, 2016 - 24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #871, 2016 - 24
    Signed, dated, and title on verso
    Mixed Media on Paper
    12 x 9 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #870, 2016 - 24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #870, 2016 - 24
    Signed Dated and titled on verso
    Mixed Media on Paper
    12 x 9 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled #869, 2016 - 24
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled #869, 2016 - 24
    Signed, dates, and titled on verso
    Mixed Media on Paper
    12 x 9 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Shaun McCracken, Untitled Circle, 2023
    Shaun McCracken
    Untitled Circle, 2023
    Tempera on Gesso Board
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Signed on recto by the artist in pencil
    Found photo image with oil mixed ultramarine pigment
    Image: 22 x 27 1/2 inches
    Print: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
    Edition of 7 (#1/7)
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Signed on recto by the artist in pencil
    Color pigment print on Cold Press Bright paper
    Paper: 41 x 29.5 inches/ Image: 19 x 23.5 inches

    Paper: 104 x 75 cm/ Image: 59.5 x 47 cm
    Edition of 7 plus 2 artist's proof (#1/7)
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019-2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019-2020
    Signed on recto by the artist in pencil
    Edition of 7 plus 2 artist's proofs (#1/7)
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2018-2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2018-2020
    Pigment Print on Cold Press Bright Paper

    29 x 30 inches
    Edition of 7 (#1/7)
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019-2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019-2020
    Signed on Recto
    Color Pigment Print on Cold Press Bright Paper
    Image: 323 x 23 3/4 inches
    Sheet: 29 x 30 inches
    Edition of 7 plus 2 artist's proofs (#1/7)
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Signed on recto
    Pigment color print on Cold Press Bright paper
    Sheet: 47.5 x 35 1/2 inches / Image: 33 x 26.5 inches
    Framed: 50 x 38 inches
    Edition of 7 plus 2 artist's proof (AP 1/2)
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019-2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019-2020
    Signed on recto
    Pigment color print on Cold Press Bright paper
    Image: 36 1/2 x 26 3/4 inches / Sheet 47 1/2 inches x 35 1/4
    Framed: 50 x 38 inches
    Edition of 7 plus 1 artist's proof (AP 1/2)
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Signed, dated and numbered by the artist in pencil on recto
    Color pigment print on Cold Press Bright Paper
    Sheet: 41 x 29.5 inches/Image: 23.5 x 22 inches
    Edition of 9 plus 1 artist's proof (AP 1/1)
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Signed on recto by the artist in pencil
    Found photo image with oil mixed ultramarine pigment
    28.5 x 36 in

    72.39 x 91.44 cm
    Edition of 7 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Signed on recto by the artist in pencil
    Found photo image with oil mixed ultramarine pigment
    11.5 x 11.25 inch

    29.21 x 28.58 cm
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Signed on recto by the artist in pencil
    Found photo image with oil mixed ultramarine pigment
    10.5 x 11.25 inch

    26.67 x 28.58 cm
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Signed on recto by the artist in pencil
    Found photo image with oil mixed ultramarine pigment
    11.5 x 11.25 inch
    29.21 x 28.58 cm
    Edition of 7 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Signed on recto by the artist in pencil
    Found photo image with oil mixed ultramarine pigment
    28.5 x 36 in

    72.39 x 91.44 cm
    Edition of 7 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Signed on recto by the artist in pencil
    Found photo image with oil mixed ultramarine pigment
    28.5 x 36 in

    72.39 x 91.44 cm
    Edition of 7 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Signed on recto by the artist in pencil
    Found photo image with oil mixed ultramarine pigment
    28.5 x 36 in

    72.39 x 91.44 cm
    Edition of 7 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Manfred Müller, Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Manfred Müller
    Untitled from the series Sub Aqua, 2019 - 2020
    Signed on recto by the artist in pencil
    Found photo image with oil mixed ultramarine pigment
    28.5 x 36 in

    72.39 x 91.44 cm
    Edition of 7 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Manfred Müller, Blue Prelude #12, 2021
    Manfred Müller
    Blue Prelude #12, 2021
    Oil paint on Felt Paper
    23 x 11 x 3.5 inches
    Framed: 35 x 25 x 4 inches
  • Manfred Müller, Large Red Prelude, 2023
    Manfred Müller
    Large Red Prelude, 2023
    Painted Paper Sclupture
    68 x 34 x 14 inches
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Manfred Müller, Large Red Prelude, 2023
    Manfred Müller
    Large Red Prelude, 2023
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Manfred Müller, Large Blue Prelude, 2024
    Manfred Müller
    Large Blue Prelude, 2024
    Painted Paper Sclupture
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Manfred Müller, White Prelude, 2024
    Manfred Müller
    White Prelude, 2024
    Paper Sculpture
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Manfred Müller, White Prelude, 2022
    Manfred Müller
    White Prelude, 2022
    Signed and dated by the artist in pencil
    Oil Color on Fabriano Paper
    37 x 27 x 4.5 inches [framed]
  • Manfred Müller, White Prelude, 2024
    Manfred Müller
    White Prelude, 2024
    Paper Sculpture
    41 x 28 x 4.5 inches framed
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Manfred Müller, White Prelude #680, 2016
    Manfred Müller
    White Prelude #680, 2016
    Signed by the artist in pencil on recto
    Oil Color on Fabriano Paper
    23.5 x 14 x 4 inches/FRAME 33 x 25 inches

    59.69 x 35.56 x 10.16 cm
  • Manfred Müller, White Prelude, 2024
    Manfred Müller
    White Prelude, 2024
    Painted paper sculpture
    47 x 31 x 5 inches [framed]
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
  • Manfred Müller, Blue Prelude #7, 2021
    Manfred Müller
    Blue Prelude #7, 2021
    Oil paint on Felt paper
    35 x 25 x 4.5 inches [framed]
    Courtesy of ROSEGALLERY
  • Manfred Müller, Large Red Prelude , 2023
    Manfred Müller
    Large Red Prelude , 2023
    Painted Paper Sculpure
    63 x 37 x 20
    Courtesy of Demo Gallery
Navigating Pigment

ROSEGALLERY is pleased to present Navigating Pigment a presentation of works by Manfred Müller and Shaun McCracken.

Manfred Müller’s series Subaqua stratifies three components: original selection, resizing and manipulation, and introduction of new materials, hence the difficulty in strictly defining the work. Each piece bases itself in an early 20th century archival photograph, ostensibly taken in the Arctic; oftentimes the images feature rugged and bold human subjects in the midst of happenstance quests (plotting navigations, mapping regions, marking game, etc.).

Curation plays a pivotal role here, with chance and choice governing the next stages of expression. Complicating matters further, the artist then takes it upon himself to imbue the work with a water-colorish splashing of painstaking blue; his ritualistic crafting of pigment, turpentine, Japanese dryer, and linseed oil brings an advancement of raw emotion to the foreground, thus forcing the past into an act of perceptual receding. A protege of Heerich and Beuys, Subaqua continues Müller’s legacy as an architectural minimalist, with a quixotic knack for performance-based pieces that “openly disclose the process of their formation” (Howard H. Fox, “A Multitude of Echoes: The Art of Manfred Müller”).

Shaun McCracken’s paintings explore hard-edged geometries by incorporating line, colour, shape, texture, divisions, and their interactions, to create intimately scaled art works that are contained, self-sufficient and unique visual experiences. Color is the basis of McCracken’s work, with a specific color defining the palette for a day’s painting session. McCracken notes, “Each day a new colour is picked and usually it is a color that contradicts, compliments or clashes with what I used the day before. Color is built up over many layers of paint – and I look for interesting juxtapositions even within a single color area - a pink over a green or an orange over a purple for example. So color is one of the first issues I think about when I start painting - and is one of the defining elements that tells me when a painting is finished.”

In the early stages of McCracken’s work, the geometric shapes contained within his works are free formed and somewhat arbitrary. As the painting progresses, these shapes and patterns become carefully considered. However, there is no pre-planning or preliminary drawing that is utilized to create his compositions.

Both Müller and McCracken examine the idea of how an artwork can progress. For Müller, it is manipulating and recontextualizing his source material. He intentionally obscures and highlights different elements of the original photographs through physical manipulation such as watercolor and pigment. McCracken explores progression through an almost organic creative process. His patterns and color grow and grow from the single decision that was made prior.