The Rest

Gladstone is pleased to announce The Rest, an exhibition of new paintings by Rachel Rose. Presented at our 64th Street gallery, this body of work expands upon the artist's past investigations into the relationship between storytelling, landscape, and the structuring of our belief systems. Rose here addresses the canon of devotional paintings that depict the biblical allegory of the holy family's flight to Egypt. Illustrating a pause in the journey of Mary, Joseph, and the newborn Jesus as they escape the threat of King Herod, these images typically conflate the natural world with indications of serenity, danger, or the miraculous, situating the story's protagonists in a world driven by symbolism.