Rhonda Gates Paintings

Lori Waxman 60wrd/min COVID Edition

How to look without touching, see without getting too close? The surfaces of Rhonda Gates’ paintings hint at the distortions of zoom lenses, the disruption of metal bars, the pixelation of screen images, the mesh of a screen door...

Open and Quiet Spaces

When she was a student in college, Rhonda Gates recalls that she often sought out "open and quiet" spaces. She explored the flood plain of the Missouri River, climbed up bluffs to watch storms coming in and "wandered around" prairies in Kansas...

Nature-hungry urbanites, rejoice:

wide-open spaces are closer than you imagined. Take the traditional idea of landscape painting for a tailspin, Chicago-based artist Rhonda Gates uses the city as inspiration, twisting foundational structures (like grids) to create...

Rhonda Gates: Weather Systems

Rhonda Gates is a painter of place, whose work embodies the steel and glass grid patterns of Chicago architecture, and the forms and colors of the Midwestern landscape. Her paintings...

Rhonda Gates:

Rhonda Gates' paintings at the Zg Gallery are skyscapes and landscapes of a different sort. They distill the atmosphere of particular places and times of day or year into geometric abstractions that are ordered by irregular grids. Then they...