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ultrapath
Beth Letain, Berlin, 26 April - 21 June 2019

ultrapath Beth Letain

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Press release

Peres Projects is pleased to announce ultrapath, Beth Letain's second solo exhibition at the gallery, opening on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin, 2019.

 

Beth Letain's monumentally scaled paintings are adamantly, absurdly honest about what they are: brightly colored stripes, squares, stacks, and slabs suspended across impossibly weightless white grounds. These are lively and quotidian forms, easily named but stubbornly resistant to description. In their simplicity, their unassuming thematic variations, these works hold up a mirror to painting's modernist past. Reflected in them we can see Malevich's quest to materialize the immaterial, to make color float in an imagined infinite; also echoed is Gertrude Stein's strict assurance that there is no repetition, only insistence. The ghosts of the old guard are here, represented by the material directness of the paintings and the painter's curiosity about the operations of vision, about how almost nothing may be built into absolutely something. But these engagements of modernist problem solving, modernist rigor, and modernist entanglement with material and form have refused the self-seriousness that defines that canon. Letain makes paintings that are both top-heavy and weightless, guffawing and full of grace. These paintings are too homey to claim the sublime, too massive to be pretty, too modest to trade in the existential weight of the expressive gesture. They are, however, absolutely serious about joy, and surprise the viewer time and again by locating that joy with absolute conviction in a field of slippery, slap-dash, reeling exactitude. 

 

– Sarah Hollenberg, 2019

 

Beth Letain (b.1976, CA) studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 

and SUNY Purchase College, graduating with an MFA in 2008. Recent exhibitions include Pace Gallery, London; Peres Projects, Berlin; Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen.

 
Installation Shots
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Beth Letain ultrapath Installation View April 26 – June 21, 2019 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Beth Letain ultrapath Installation View April 26 – June 21, 2019 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Beth Letain ultrapath Installation View April 26 – June 21, 2019 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Beth Letain ultrapath Installation View April 26 – June 21, 2019 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Beth Letain ultrapath Installation View April 26 – June 21, 2019 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Beth Letain ultrapath Installation View April 26 – June 21, 2019 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Beth Letain ultrapath Installation View April 26 – June 21, 2019 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Beth Letain ultrapath Installation View April 26 – June 21, 2019 Peres Projects, Berlin Photographed by: Matthias Kolb
  • Beth Letain

    ultrapath

    Installation View

    April 26 – June 21, 2019

    Peres Projects, Berlin

    Photographed by: Matthias Kolb

  • Beth Letain

    ultrapath

    Installation View

    April 26 – June 21, 2019

    Peres Projects, Berlin

    Photographed by: Matthias Kolb

  • Beth Letain

    ultrapath

    Installation View

    April 26 – June 21, 2019

    Peres Projects, Berlin

    Photographed by: Matthias Kolb

  • Beth Letain

    ultrapath

    Installation View

    April 26 – June 21, 2019

    Peres Projects, Berlin

    Photographed by: Matthias Kolb

  • Beth Letain

    ultrapath

    Installation View

    April 26 – June 21, 2019

    Peres Projects, Berlin

    Photographed by: Matthias Kolb

  • Beth Letain

    ultrapath

    Installation View

    April 26 – June 21, 2019

    Peres Projects, Berlin

    Photographed by: Matthias Kolb

  • Beth Letain

    ultrapath

    Installation View

    April 26 – June 21, 2019

    Peres Projects, Berlin

    Photographed by: Matthias Kolb

  • Beth Letain

    ultrapath

    Installation View

    April 26 – June 21, 2019

    Peres Projects, Berlin

    Photographed by: Matthias Kolb

Beth Letain

ultrapath

Installation View

April 26 – June 21, 2019

Peres Projects, Berlin

Photographed by: Matthias Kolb

Press
  • Beth Letain "Dayfall" (2019) (detail)

    Beth Letain Peres Projects/Berlin

    William Kherbek, Flash Art International, June 12, 2019
  • Installation view of Beth Letain's exhibition "ultrapath" at Peres Projects, Berlin (2019)

    Ten Painters’ Shows to Visit After Gallery Weekend Berlin

    Monika Čejková, arterritory, May 2, 2019
  • Installation view of Beth Letain's exhibition "ultrapath" at Peres Projects, Berlin (2019)

    The Search for the Perfect Picture

    Heike Fuhlbrügge, Der Tagesspiegel, April 30, 2019
  • Installation view of Beth Letain's exhibition "ultrapath" at Peres Projects, Berlin (2019)

    Berlin Gallery Weekend Is More Macho Than Usual This Year, So Here Are 5 Solo Shows by Women Artists to Watch

    Hili Perlson, Artnet News, April 24, 2019
  • Beth Letain "Romantic Love" (2019) (detail)

    10 exhibitions not to miss at this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin

    Sleek Magazine, April 23, 2019

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