Brian Calvin

Almine Rech Gstaad is pleased to present Brian Calvin's ninth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from July 12 to August 30, 2025.

Back in the 1990s, Brian Calvin began developing a figurative, non-narrative, pictorial style. Landscapes and portraits steeped in his Californian roots dominated this work. Close-up treatment of subjects, highly composed structures, as well as luminous colors laid flat endow these large-scale paintings with a strange temporality. In observing his technique of pictorial economy, one gradually comes to see a type of abstraction in his representation of certain details. They reveal, even greater still, the true finality of his work, reaffirming the primacy of a visual reflection on painting itself and its possibilities. "I prefer to experience abstraction through the creation and tending of images. Painting provides the medium."

— A press release by Jill Gasparina, critic and curator, will follow.