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Window on Broad / Meredith Sellers: Roses Fall But Thorns Remain

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"Roses Fall But Thorns Remain" (detail), 2021, oil and ink on panel, 50 x 88 in, image courtesy of the artist

 

Sept. 3–Oct. 17, 2021

Window on Broad

 

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery presents Roses Fall But Thorns Remain, featuring a new triptych by Meredith Sellers in the Window on Broad project space. Conflating the concept in painting of the window as an illusory two-dimensional space with the infinite windows of the digital screen, Sellers renders appropriated images to draw parallels between beauty and disaster, the natural world and the digital, and the banal violence of capitalist systems. Here, she continues her exploration of Dutch still life symbolism and colonialist conquest, in juxtaposition with imagery borrowed from historical archives, stock photography, and contemporary news reports.

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Artist Meredith Sellers is pictured in front of a grey ombre background

Artist and writer Meredith Sellers

Roses Fall But Thorns Remain, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and University of the Arts

"Roses Fall But Thorns Remain," installation view, courtesy of the artist and University of the Arts

A painting by Meredith Sellers of a detailed rose

"Roses Fall But Thorns Remain" (detail), 2021
Oil and ink on panel
50 x 88 inches
Image courtesy of the artist

A painting by Meredith Sellers of peaches and a woman wearing underwear

"Roses Fall But Thorns Remain" (detail), 2021
Oil and ink on panel
50 x 88 in
Image courtesy of the artist

"Roses Fall But Thorns Remain" (detail), 2021 Oil and ink on panel 50 x 88 inches Image courtesy of the artist

"Roses Fall But Thorns Remain" (detail), 2021
Oil and ink on panel
50 x 88 in
Image courtesy of the artist

A painting by Meredith Sellers

"Roses Fall But Thorns Remain" (detail), 2021
Oil and ink on panel
50 x 88 in
Image courtesy of the artist

"Roses Fall But Thorns Remain" (detail), 2021 Oil and ink on panel 50 x 88 inches Image courtesy of the artist

"Roses Fall But Thorns Remain" (detail), 2021
Oil and ink on panel
50 x 88 in
Image courtesy of the artist

Artist Meredith Sellers is pictured in front of a grey ombre background
Roses Fall But Thorns Remain, Installation view. Courtesy of the artist and University of the Arts
A painting by Meredith Sellers of a detailed rose
A painting by Meredith Sellers of peaches and a woman wearing underwear
"Roses Fall But Thorns Remain" (detail), 2021 Oil and ink on panel 50 x 88 inches Image courtesy of the artist
A painting by Meredith Sellers
"Roses Fall But Thorns Remain" (detail), 2021 Oil and ink on panel 50 x 88 inches Image courtesy of the artist

 

 

About the Artist

 

Meredith Sellers (b. 1988, Baltimore, MD) is an artist and writer living and working in Philadelphia. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Her paintings utilize images from art history, stock photography, advertisements, and the media to examine systems of power and violence.

She has exhibited work at ICA Philadelphia, Lord Ludd, Vox Populi, Icebox Project Space, Pilot Projects, Delaware County Community College, Pressure Club, and Fleisher Art Memorial. Her curatorial projects include Chewing the Scenery at Crane Arts, and The Midnight Sun at Pilot Projects (both co-curated with Jonathan Santoro), and Edith at Esther Klein Gallery. She is an editor for Philadelphia-based online art publication Title Magazine; her writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, ArtsJournal, Pelican Bomb, and American Craft Magazine.

 

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