Rachel Rose MFA ’09 at Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea: Enclosure.
On view in the midst of new creations made for Rachel Rose’s current gallery show in New York are works of a very different vintage: paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries in England, all on loan from the Yale Center for British Art. The older works informed Rose’s new ones (made in mixed media including film, painting, sculpture, and gravures), and they coexist as if no time has passed between them in the context of a vision currently being exhibited at Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea.
The centerpiece of the show is Enclosure (2019), a 30-minute film set in 17th-century rural England during the time of the Enclosure Acts—”a series of legal maneuvers,” an exhibition description reads, “that seized communally used farmlands and privatized property ownership.” To make the period piece, Rose called on inspiration from historical paintings she had first come to know as a student—with a certain degree of sleight-of-hand.
Read more at this ArtNews article and at this Vogue article.