ROSALIND
TALLMADGE
BETWEEN HARMONY AND INVENTION
ROSALIND TALLMADGE
BETWEEN HARMONY AND INVENTION
A SUITE OF PAINTINGS COMMISSIONED FOR THE OPUS ONE ROTUNDA
Art/artefact is honored to present Between Harmony and Invention, a project curated and realized by Audra Kiewiet de Jonge for Opus One.
The suite of five monumental panels was created by Rosalind Tallmadge as a site-specific commission to occupy five 10-foot tall niches in the winery's limestone rotunda that have stood empty for nearly 30 years. Drawing inspiration from the winery’s ethos of each Opus One vintage as a unique and exceptional expression of time and place, the five panels represent the cycle of the seasons and the relationship between terroir and the time-honored craft of fine wine.
INSTALLATION VIEWS
Photography by Boris Zharkov
ABOUT THE PROJECT
ROSALIND TALLMADGE
Between Harmony and Invention, 2023
Le printemps
Pewter leaf, ink glaze, mica flakes, and glass microbeads on sequin fabric, 112.5 x 48.75 in.
L’été
22k gold leaf, sumi ink glaze, mica flakes, and glass microbeads on sequin fabric, 113 x 49.75 in.
L'automne
Rose gold leaf, mica flakes, and glass microbeads on sequin fabric, 113 x 49 in.
L’hiver
Caplain gold leaf, sumi ink, mica flakes, and glass microbeads on sequin fabric, 113 x 48.5 in.
Les Éléments
Hand-sliced mica stone and powdered glass on wood panel, 113 x 73 in.
Employing centuries-old techniques of gold leafing, Tallmadge layers into each panel natural pigments, ink washes, marble dust, volcanic ash, mica stone and powdered glass to create a suite that unites old-world materials with a new-world perspective and embodies the origins of Opus One–a joint venture of the Robert Mondavi Winery and Baron Philippe de Rothschild, a unique collaboration between a renowned California vintner and a celebrated European Winemaker.
Using materials and pigments sourced from nature, the artist manipulates sequinned fabric to dazzling effect–creating quietly luminous surfaces that subtly sculpt the California light. Only fully realized in situ, the viewer’s experience of the works undergoes subtle transformations with the passing of each hour and season as natural light illuminates the works from the oculus above. This fluidity of form and experience within each painting evokes the ineffable influences of nature, time and place in Opus One’s pursuit of one wine of absolute quality. The works are an invitation to linger, to enjoy, to revel in complexity that is revealed over time.
“It has simply transformed the space. It is hard to imagine this art not being there.”
— CORPORATE HOSPITALITY CLIENTARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Rosalind Tallmadge (b.1987) is a Brooklyn-based artist recognized for her multi-layered paintings that approach sculpture. Tallmadge’s work mines the history of monochrome and color field painting, incorporating natural materials and metal leafing in hybrid textile paintings that explore the politics of surface, beauty, and environment.
Her work is included in private and public collections in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and has been exhibited widely in New York, Detroit, Miami, and Seoul. Most recently Tallmadge was included in the 2023 exhibition “Together and Apart: A Legacy of Abstraction” at David Klein Gallery Detroit, in 2022 in "Moonlight Room" with Carvalho Park, New York, and at Kiaf SEOUL with Carvalho Park, and in the 2021 exhibition, "With Eyes Opened" at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills. Tallmadge will open solo shows in New York and Los Angeles in 2024.
She is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including Oxbow School of Art, the DNA Residency, Provincetown, MA, and the Yale Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT. Tallmadge holds a BFA in Painting and a BA in Art History from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2010, and an MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, MI, 2015.
