Implied

Eli Ridgway Gallery is pleased to present Rebecca Goldfarb: Implied, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the San Francisco–based conceptual artist. Implied presents new works in sculpture, installation, and photography that hint at a myriad of concerns relating to human consumption, the environment, and the meaning of everyday objects. In viewing the exhibition, one is presented with a perceptual experience — an opportunity to give further consideration to, in the artist’s own words, “the infinite and in-between space where language, thought, memory, and sense interact as ways to investigate the act of thinking and seeing.”

Goldfarb continues her interest in minimally composed color photographs with a new series in red, yellow, and blue, titled Who’s Afraid of Fuel, Food or Water? The piece extends the conversation between Robert Irwin’s 2006 installation Who’s Afraid of Red Yellow and Blue³ and Barnett Newman’s 1966 painting Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? As Irwin attempted to carry the two-dimensional exploration of primary color into a third dimension, Goldfarb reintroduces materials, concepts, and titles that bring a new language to the equation.

Rebecca Goldfarb received her BA in Art and Environmental Studies from Pitzer College in 1996 and her MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. She has held a residency at the Kala Art Institute and been recognized as a finalist for awards from Artadia and the James D. Phelan Award.