November 1 - December 22, 2023

61 Lispenard Street

P: 212 925 4631

New York, NY

Ken D. Resseger: Objet Outta

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Installation view of Ken Resseger Objet Outta

Canada is pleased to present Objet Outta, a solo exhibition of paintings by Ken D. Resseger. In these works on panel, blobs of paint and passages of erasure suggest ground features woven with knots of beautyberry, crab cherry, sedge, brambles, and other wild delights. In others, he tips his perspective upward, creating vistas of turbulent skies framed by archways of trees or rock formations that invite the viewer to enter imaginary spaces of wildness and solitude.

Resseger starts by building numerous six by eight-inch wood panels that allow him to spread his energy over many paintings. He often works on several pieces simultaneously and sometimes over a period of several years, adjusting and repainting. The ongoing process becomes a call and response exchange between his experimental “automatic” approach and the attempts at creating a novel but grounded scene.

Erasure plays an important role in Resseger’s process, and the paintings often feature seemingly incomplete passages. Upon closer inspection, the blank spots reveal themselves to carry the residue of removal and redaction. The open areas imply, without detail or brush strokes, streams, paths, or chasms. Chinese handscroll paintings are a strong influence, with their purposeful passages of emptiness, which imply atmosphere and volumes that

must be activated by the viewer’s eye. In a strange hierarchical shift, voids become as important as areas that have been touched by the calligrapher’s brush. The lushness to the paintings and the seeming restraint deliver the strangeness of the world in ways that are open ended and freeing.

The paintings are reminiscent of the work of Ralph Blakelock, the nineteenth century artist associated with the tonalist movement, who, like his contemporary Albert Pinkham Ryder, treated the landscape as a cypher for spiritual transcendence. Both Blakelock and. Resseger share a palette that is informed by observed rather than expressive color, allowing for a moody atmosphere of repose and contemplation. Resseger finds ways to make the intimate spaces of his paintings feel big, huge even. Through what feels like single-hair brush strokes, the works replicate the familiar while conjuring a view of the natural worldthat teems with magical conjunctions.

Ken D. Resseger (b.1981, Providence, R.I.) lives and works in Providence. He holds a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in NY. Recent exhibitions include The Thick Stream, Canada, New York, Orwell’s Garden, High Desert, Brooklyn, NY, The Deep End, Canada, East Hampton, NY. Forthcoming exhibitions include Arcadia and Elsewhere, James Cohan, New York, NY.

A Collection of Clouds, 2021-22
Oil and acrylic on wood
7 × 9 × 1 3/8 in

Berries Vs. You, 2017
Oil and acrylic on wood
7 × 9 × 1 3/8 in

Eye Mind Relearning, 2020-22
Oil and acrylic on wood
9 × 7 × 1 3/8 in

Alien Plato's Cave, 2023
Oil and acrylic on mohogany
9 × 7 × 1 3/8 in

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The Warp, 2023
Oil and acrylic on wood
7 × 9 × 1 3/8 in

XG7, 2023
Oil and acrylic on wood
7 × 9 × 1 3/8 in

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Installation view of Ken Resseger Objet Outta

Alien Object in the Sun, 2022
Oil and acrylic on wood
7 × 9 × 1 3/8 in

Imposter Planet, 2023
Oil and acrylic on mahogany
7 × 9 × 1 3/8 in

Viewing Planets on Other Planets III, 2023
Oil and acrylic on wood
7 × 9 × 1 3/8 in

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Installation view of Ken Resseger Objet Outta

Wrong Canyon, 2023
Oil and acrylic on wood
9 × 7 × 1 3/8 in

Ancients, 2020-22
Oil and acrylic on wood
9 × 7 × 1 3/8 in

Tuesday, 2023
Oil and acrylic on wood
9 × 7 × 1 3/8 in

Weird Wine Vine, 2022
Oil and acrylic on wood
7 × 9 × 1 3/8 in

Cosmic Woe, 2023
Oil and acrylic on wood
7 × 9 × 1 3/8 in

Deep Liar, 2022-23
Oil and acrylic on wood
7 × 9 × 1 3/8 in

New Entrance, 2022
Oil and acrylic on wood
7 × 9 × 1 3/8 in

Mirage Interrupter, 2023
Oil and acrylic on wood
9 × 7 × 1 3/8 in

The Jungle, 2020-22
Oil and acrylic on wood
9 × 7 × 1 3/8 in

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Selected Works

Dream SpeakRachel Eulena Williams

ZzyzxChristina Sucgang

HomesickSadie Laska

Promised LightLuke Murphy

ReadersKiyoshi Tsuchiya

ComeCloseJoan Snyder

NocturnesAnke Weyer

Arms and the SeaKatherine Bradford

Objet OuttaKen Resseger

Last LandscapesGerald Ferguson

Leroy's LuncheonAzikiwe Mohammed

Frisson CityLee Relvas

Reassembler 3Brian Belott

A Ball is for ThrowingElizabeth McIntosh

Ambient MusicLee Mary Manning

TORSOAnnabeth Marks

BiscuitLyric Shen

Body ForthMatt Connors

A Cliff to ClimbRyan Preciado

Library of a DreamRobert Janitz

Gold GoldRJ Messineo

On ValentinesSpencer Lewis

Who is afraid of Natasha?Joanna Malinowska & CT Jasper

USMichael Mahalchick

TRANSFIGURATIONAurora Pellizzi

The Thick StreamGroup Exhibition

5 SeasonsJason Fox

Mother PaintingsKatherine Bradford

Ceramics and PrintsElisabeth Kley

Black Femme: Sovereign of WAP and the Virtual Realm curated by Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle

#VayaConDiosKatherine Bernhardt

DrawingsJason Fox

Heart, HeartAnke Weyer

Tracing MemoryRachel Eulena Williams

Rayos De SombraRobert Janitz

GorpTyson Reeder

EREHWONSadie Laska