he has exhibited widely, included at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain International Center of Photography, New York, NY ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, among others. Templeton has exhibited worldwide, and his work is included in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art, NYC Museum Dhondt-Dhaenes, Deurle, Belgium Museum Het Domein, Netherlands Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA and the Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK. As the artist explains, all of his subjects come from his own life: ∾verything Ive ever shot has just been on the path that Ive been on, be it skating or travel or street photography. The environmental scenes created by Templeton are as much within the genre of portraiture as they are landscapes, neatly framing and supporting our perceptions of the bodily movements, ambiguities, and our relations with the characters embodied within. Templeton uses photography, archival materials, painting, and drawing to explore the ugliness, banality, and beauty of the familiar everyday world, oftentimes attaching a deep, subjective emotional expression to his portraits. That same year he founded a skateboard company Toy Machine and incorporated his artwork and graphics onto skateboard decks and advertisements. While touring the world for competitions in 1994, he picked up photography to document the incredible skate-culture he was taking part in.
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He first gained recognition as a teenage skateboard prodigy in the late 1980s, becoming a professional skateboarder and beginning to paint in 1990. 1972, Garden Grove, CA based in Huntington Beach, CA) is known for his interdisciplinary practice, most notably of photographs documenting people and street life locally and globally, intimate portraits of his wife, and paintings depicting the psychological complexity of American suburbia. I was eager to escape this provincial region, but through twists of fate ended up staying here and planting roots among the endless blocks of tract housing. Spring's cycle of change, with its energy of transformation, provides a welcome escape.Įd Templeton (b. I then married a mixed-race woman, whose father was from Mexico. Per the artist, I found punk music and skateboarding which altered my worldview and disappointed my grandfather. In Templetons world, young adults, and teens struggle to adapt to the banality of their parents' structured, homogenous world. Also on view are works on paper and the artist's original photographs, both of which provide considerable insight into the paintings. The realistic, straightforward suburban scenes are not unlike, in both sensibility and style, the mundane photographs of Ed Ruscha's book Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963). Templeton again employs a realistic style that has defined his painting practice however, these new works see a lack of fantastical elements and the introduction of deep-set shadows, a divergence from his normally hyper-saturated palette. The linear compositions of the large-scale paintings epitomize the West Coasts horizontal configurations, while smaller works evoke a more intimate quality. Proxemics between people have no clear delineation, so relationships are not easily determined at first glance, if at all.
Boundaries between what is public and private are blurred. The lack of specific environmental factors further highlights the enigmatic nature of each scene. Details such as discarded religious pamphlets or signs, highlight how belief systems, however absurd, permeate our lives. Suggestive imagery and unsettling portraits are joined with idyllic landscapes that verge on the pastoral to explore fragmented or at times distorted experiences with sensitivity and specificity. Templetons most concise works to date continue earlier themes cynical of the provincial customs and rituals of his surroundings, notably the ever-polarizing political milieu over the last five years in Orange County where he lives and works. This is the artist's eighth solo show with the gallery. The exhibition runs January 22nd - March 5th, 2022. These new works create hyperbolic realities that scrutinize the human condition through the lens of urban isolation. Roberts Projects announced The Spring Cycle, an exhibition of new paintings, drawings, and photographs by Ed Templeton that are a direct response to the suburban environment he lives in.
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