Pink Turns to Blue, 2017

Acrylic and sand on canvas — 50 x 54 in — As Carmen Winant writes in Artforum, George Rush’s works live in the space between agitation and total stillness. Often working with subjects at the boundary of inside and outside—windows and doors, apertures of modern living—his works speak to the history of modernist architecture, to class, social alienation, and contemporary lifestyle in ways that are consistently nuanced and psychologically felt. Rush’s talent for creating the illusion of familiarity, yet without sufficient detail to derive defi