Rouy is a virtuoso of the in-betweens: an undefined space where the intimate encounters the detached, the serene grazes the violent, and the platonic traces the erotic.
Rouy's paintings engage the body so that amorphous shapes reveal abstract human forms. Throughout his work, ambiguity supports his investigations of historic portraiture in conversation with contemporary sociocultural attributes. The result is amorphous shapes the slowly reveal abstract human forms.
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George Rouy is an artist living and working in Kent, UK. He received his BFA from Camberwell College of Arts in London in 2015.
George Rouy’s fleshy nudes—often painted in pink, blue, or muted earth tones—bulge and blur against abstract backgrounds. While the U.K.-born artist has cited 15th-century painters including Jean Fouquet and Rogier van der Weyden as influences, his work is decidedly contemporary, with compositions that evoke both soft-focus camera lenses and digital glitches. For Rouy, the body is a tool for storytelling. As he contorts his figures into curious poses that threaten to bump against the canvas edge, he explores the ambiguities of gender and sexuality.
Solo shows include Endless Song, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York (2023); Body Suit, Hannah Barry Gallery, London (2023); George Rouy: Belly ache, Almine Reich, Paris (2022) and Maelstrom, Peres Projects, Berlin (2020). Group shows include The Beauty of Diversity, Albertina Modern, Vienna (2024); Present Tense, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK (2024); Real Corporeal, Gladstone Gallery, New York (2022) and Rested, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York (2021).
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Painter George Rouy Flirts With Abstraction
Ella Martin-Gachot, Cultured Magazine, September 8, 2023 -
George Rouy's paintings are about human essence
Emma Russell, i-D, September 7, 2023 -
George Rouy featured in Document Journal
Gilda Bruno, Document Journal, September 7, 2023 -
Whitewall: Endless Song, A must see at Nicola Vassell
Pearl Fontaine, Whitewall, September 7, 2023