room for painting 08 - Alan Ebnother: recent paintings

Exhibition 08 in the room for painting showcases recent monochrome paintings by Alan Ebnother. Originally from the Bay Area, Ebnother now maintains studios in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Leipzig, Germany. His work has been exhibited extensively over the last 20 years in Europe. Ebnother's oils, in h... Read more

Exhibition 08 in the room for painting showcases recent monochrome paintings by Alan Ebnother. Originally from the Bay Area, Ebnother now maintains studios in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Leipzig, Germany. His work has been exhibited extensively over the last 20 years in Europe. Ebnother’s oils, in hand-ground dry pigment on stretched linen and wood panels, are characterized by rich impasto, dense pigmentation, and an intuitive, acrobatic marking. Ebnother was originally trained as a ballet dancer and his understanding of elevation, extension, and balance comes through in his dispersed composition and the agility of his paint handling. The high pigment-to-oil ratio and furrowed surfaces of these paintings combine to create an unusually saturated color with a grounded, concrete physicality.