March 25–April 22, 2023
Los Angeles
Steve Turner is pleased to present I’ll Pick You Up, a solo exhibition by Paris-based Rose Barberat which features recent paintings inspired by the artist’s Summer 2022 visit to Los Angeles. The paintings are predominantly painted in shades of orange with some having contrasting accents of green and red. They depict scenes that relate to the physical aspects of travel–the car to or from the airport, airplanes on the tarmac, toting one’s luggage–as well as the emotional and mental aspects relating to fantasy, anticipation, uncertainty and anxiety. Orange represents light and heat and alludes to a California sunset. Its intensity amplifies Barberat’s dystopian cinematic narrative which suggests that the sun might be setting for the last time.
Rose Barberat (born 1994, St. Claude, Jura, France) earned a Masters of Art at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2021) before having her first solo exhibition at Galerie Pact, Paris in the same year. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions and art fairs in Italy, Belgium, Israel and Mexico. This is Barberat’s first solo exhibition in the United States and her first with Steve Turner.
Born 1994, Jura, France
Lives and works in Paris
Education
2019
DNSAP, Beaux-arts de Paris
2014
DNA, Beaux-Arts de Paris
Solo Exhibitions
2023
I’ll Pick You Up, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2021
Planétarium, PACT, Paris
Retour à Ithaque, Beaux-Arts de Paris
2019
Un contre-feu, Beaux-Arts de Paris
Group Exhibitions
2022
The Shortest Way To Happiness, Givon Art Forum, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Madame rêve. Huit peintres parisiens à Venise, Mathilde M. Le Coz, Venice, Italy
Domesticada, JO-HS, Mexico City
Something in the air, Poush Manifesto, Clichy, France
2021
L’Ecume des Songes. Portrait et figuration, Poush Manifesto, Clichy
2020
Claustrum, Galerie Edouard Escougnou, Paris
2019
Qu’estl-ce que ça ne veut pas dire?, IESA, Paris
Quand vient le dernier quartier de lune, The Tiny Bookstore, Paris
2018
Suites Barbares, Le Chiffonier, Dijon, France
Team Eitel, Beaux-Arts de Paris Panorama, Gauche Gallery, Paris
Alongside, ESAA Duperré, Paris
2012
Outrecuidance, Brachfeld Gallery, Paris
Residency
2022
Artist-in-Residence, JO-HS, Mexico City
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2021
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