Different from his anyway knock-out show at Pace’s uptown gallery in 2010, Robert Ryman: Recent Paintings at Pace on 25th Street is all the more knock-out because daylight is let in. And this being Ryman, light–its kind and quality–is the whole shebang. Here, natural light makes the six small oil on cotton canvas paintings (2010-’11) in the gallery’s front room incandescent

Robert Ryman: Recent Paintings
12 September – 26 October ’13

Pace Gallery
508 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
212.989.4258

Robert Ryman ‘Untitled.’ 2010.
© 2013 Robert Ryman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by: Bill Jacobson / Courtesy Pace Gallery.

Different from his anyway knock-out show at Pace’s uptown gallery in 2010, Robert Ryman: Recent Paintings at Pace on 25th Street is all the more knock-out because daylight is let in. And this being Ryman, light–its kind and quality–is the whole shebang. Here, natural light makes the six small oil on cotton canvas paintings (2010-’11) in the gallery’s front room incandescent and entirely immersive. But Ryman’s ten panel No Title Required 3 (2010), which is the main event, is a harder read. High-gloss enamel and acrylic layer onto various sized (but all of them large) panels, hemmed in by blue edges. There’s hardly any visible mark–until you get moving. Once you’re in motion, you get the full effect of light and sheen, of space and extension–and of the Serra-like sense that it’s not the artwork that’s in play, it’s you.

—Richard Benari

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Photos by: Kerry Ryan McFate / Courtesy Pace Gallery. © 2013 Robert Ryman / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.