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ROD PENNER: PAINTINGS, 1987–2022

Foreward by: Louis K. Meisel
Essays by: David Anfam and Terrie Sultan

For every book purchased another copy is donated to an underserved public library, school, prison, or rehabilitation center across the U.S. 

- The Artist Book Foundation

Buy the Book

To order a limited edition linen slipcase book with unique signed & numbered print click here.

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Louis K. Meisel Gallery, NY

PAPER GOODS

16 November - 21 December, 2024

Louis K. Meisel Gallery is proud to present Paper Goods, a curated selection of works on paper by our roster of artists. Ranging from watercolors and graphite drawings to oil on paper works the exhibition will put the often overlooked medium center stage.

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Louis K. Meisel Gallery, NY

ELECTION REFLECTIONS: A Celebration of American Culture


10 October - 9 November, 2024

Featuring a curated selection of works by Photorealist artists, this show is inspired by the upcoming election season and is focused on all things Americana. Representing subjects that are synonymous with American heritage, the exhibition will explore questions of American identity in the modern world.

 

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Kenn Sava - Nighthawknyc.com

Noteworthy Art Shows: Spring. 2023

There were so many very good shows in NYC in the first half of 2023, I couldn't fit them all into Noteworthy Art Shows: Spring, 2023 piece. My twin new pieces look at two memorable shows that there was just more to say about. 

 

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Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

Fall Selections

12 October 2023 - 11 November 2023

A group show opening on October 12 that features paintings by the artists on the gallery’s roster.

 

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Artnet News

7 Questions for Painter Rod Penner on Capturing the "Quiet poetry" of Desolate Texas Landscapes.

Following on the heels of a recently published monograph, the artist's solo show opens at Louis K. Meisel Gallery later this month.  

 

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Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

The Last Picture Show: Paintings by Rod Penner

 

3 June - 13 August 2023

 

This exhibition presents a selection of paintings by the realist painter Rod Penner. A Canadian-born, Texas-based artist, Penner’s work captures the visual dichotomy of forgotten towns in southwest America.

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Rod Penner: Small Town Meditations

18 MARCH — 29 APRIL, 2023

Opening Reception + Book Signing

Sat 18 March — 2 - 5 pm

Louis K. Meisel Gallery

141 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012 
 

Tel: 212-677-1340 
gallery@meisels.com

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ROD PENNER: Artist Talk & Book Signing

SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 2023 AT 11:00 AM EST

THE ARTIST BOOK FOUNDATION

1327 Mass Moca Way, North Adams, MA 01247 

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Smithsonian American Art Museum, 

Washington D.C.

June 2022

 

SAAM acquires Rod's painting, Planet of the Apes / Canyon,TX.  

 

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Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

Dusk till Dawn

10 December 2021 - 24 February 2022

A group show opening on December 10 that features work by all of the artists on the gallery’s roster.

 

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Art Miami

Booth # AM406

30 November - 5 December 2021

Rod will be exhibiting at this year's Art Miami with Louis K. Meisel Gallery.

 

For more information, visit:  LKMG - Art Miami

 

 

 

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Art Miami

SoHo Edition

Several of Rod's paintings are featured in this year's Art Miami with Louis K. Meisel Gallery. In lieu of a physical space, Art Miami and Artsy have teamed up to present the contents of the fair virtually. Please visit the gallery's booth on Artsy (Dec 2-20, 2020) and if possible, the gallery on Prince Street in SoHo through January 29th, 2021.

 

For more information, visit: LKMG - Art Miami

 

 

 

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Hamptons Fine Art Fair

2 - 5 September 2021

Rod will be exhibiting with Louis K. Meisel Gallery in this year's Hamptons Fine Art Fair in Southampton, NY.

 

For more information, visit: LKMG - HFAF

 

 

 

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Rod Penner now represented by:

 

LOUIS K. MEISEL GALLERY, NY.

Louis K. Meisel Gallery is pleased to announce its representation of Rod E. Penner, an artist who has made instrumental developments to the movement of Photorealism. Penner has long been championed by Louis Meisel, who has included him in his books on the subject, as well as numerous museum exhibitions nationwide.

 

For more information, visit: meiselgallery.com

 

 

 

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Rod Penner | Niall Stevenson Art

Interview with Niall Stevenson

 

10 September 2020

 

Rod Penner (b. 1965), originally from Canada but now based in Texas, is a photorealist painter who specializes in depicting scenes of small town America.

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Dallas Art Fair

Booth # C1

 

11 - 14 April 2019 

 

Rod will be exhibiting with Miles McEnery Gallery.

 

In the heart of the downtown arts district, the Dallas Art Fair offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with a rich selection of modern and contemporary artworks presented by leading national and international galleries. 

 

 

 

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Art Miami 

Booth # A520

 

4 - 9 December 2018 

 

Rod will be exhibiting with Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art.

 

In its 29th edition, Art Miami maintains a preeminent position in America's modern and contemporary art fair market and is globally recognized as a primary destination for the acquisition of the most important works from the 20th and 21st centuries.

 

 

 

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Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

From Lens to Eye to Hand

 

21 April 2018 - 12 August 2018

 

From Lens to Eye to Hand reexamines the Photorealist movement in contemporary art that found its roots in the late 1960s in California and New York and continues today. Use of the camera as the foundation of painterly expression is common today, but these artists were embarking on a new way of seeing and depicting the world and were groundbreaking in their creative process. 

Dallas Art Fair   
Booth # A4
 
13 -15 April 2018

 

Rod will be exhibiting several new paintings with

Miles McEnery Gallery.

 

In the heart of the downtown arts district, the Dallas Art Fair offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with a rich selection of modern and contemporary artworks presented by leading national and international galleries. 

 

 

 

Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY

Belief in Giants

 

17 February - 10 March 2018

 

New York’s Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe gallery will now be called Miles McEnery Gallery, and will reopen its West 22nd Street headquarters this February. The first show in its newly renovated space, which has also been expanded by 1,500 square feet, will be “Belief in Giants,” a group show opening on February 17 that features work by all of the artists on the gallery’s roster.

Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

Size Matters: Big and Small Works from the FIA Collection 

 

16 September - 30 December 2017

 

 

From oversized paintings by Sophie Matisse and Ray Parker to small works by Sir Henry Raeburn and Rod Penner, the artwork in Size Matters: Big and Small Works from the FIA Collection will consider the importance of size in the experience of art.

NighthawkNYC.com

Rod Penner's Neighborhood

by Kenn Sava

 

3 August 2017

 

The 11th, and final, painting in Penner's series is, interestingly, entitled "Welcome to San Saba." I quickly moved past the irony of ending a series with a work that would seem to indicate it was the first work in the...

 

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Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY

From Lens to Eye to Hand

 

6 August 2017 - 21 January 2018

 

From Lens to Eye to Hand reexamines this important movement in contemporary art that found its roots in the late 1960s in California and New York and continues today. 

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting

13 July - 31 October 2017

Photorealism: 50 years of Hyperrealistic Painting traces the evolution of Photorealism from 1960 to today. The exhibition presents the work of nearly 30 artists known for detailed, hyper depictions of ordinary objects and scenes of everyday life.

Glasstire

Top Five: July 13, 2017

 

Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

Group Exhibition - Gone to Texas 

Rod Penner at 1:49

 

Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

Gone to Texas

 

8 June - 15 July 2017

 

Thomas Joshua Cooper

Rackstraw Downes

Lee Friedlander

Sarah McEneaney

Rod Penner

Frank Reaugh

Pater Saul

John Tweddle

William Wegman

NighthawkNYC.com

Rod Penner: Brilliance, Under Cloudy Skies

by Kenn Sava

10 June 2017

"Rod Penner" at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe is my NoteWorthy Show for May.

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Rod Penner at Ameringer McEnery Yohe, NY

Solo Exhibit 

 

27 April - 26 May 2017

 

Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent works by Rod Penner. The exhibition will open 27 April and remain on view through 26 May 2017. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by John Seed.

Kunsthal Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting

 

25 February - 4 June 2017

 

The large-scale international exhibition displays the history of hyperrealism from the 1960s to the present day, including works by Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Rod Penner, and many others.

Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany

Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting

 

15 October 2016 - 8 January 2017

 

The Photorealists devote themselves to the appearance of modern life, the exuberant world of consumption and the reflecting world of surfaces. 

 

 

Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting

 

29 June - 25 September 2016

 

Following the success of the 2014 exhibition dedicated to the American hyperrealist sculptor Duane Hanson, the Museum of Ixelles presents PHOTOREALISM. 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting. This exhibition highlights the generation of hyperrealist painters after the Second World War. In the aftermath of Pop Art, the hyperrealists portrayed and criticized the American consumer society in a fascinating semi-photographic style.

 

 

George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

Differing Views

 

1 March - 30 April 2016

 

During March and April the George Adams Gallery will present “Differing Views,” a group exhibition featuring the work of five notable realist painters: Rackstraw Downes, Richard Estes, Yvonne Jacquette, Andrew Lenaghan, and Rod Penner.

 

 

 

Kumu Art Museum of Estonia

Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting

 

17 March - 12 June 2016

 

Hyperrealism imitates in painting photographic images, and mediates a perception of the world outlined by virtual realities. The large-scale international exhibition displays the history of hyperrealism from the 1960s to the present day, including works by Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Rod Penner, and many others.

 

 

Exposition Chicago

 

17-20 September 2015

 

 

Rod will be exhibiting work with Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe.

 

 

EXPO CHICAGO, the International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, opens the fall art season each September at historic Navy Pier. 

 

 

 

 

Art Market San Francisco 

 

29 April - 3 May, 2015

 

 

Rod will be exhibiting work with

Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art.

 

 

Following record breaking sales, and attendance of over 20,000 visitors in 2014, the 2015 edition of Art Market San Francisco is pleased to present a significant selection of contemporary and modern artworks.

 

 

 

Dallas Art Fair   
 
9-12 April 2015

 

 

Rod will be exhibiting several new paintings with

Miles McEnery Gallery.

 

 

The 2015 Dallas Art Fair will feature over 90 prominent national and international art dealers and galleries exhibiting work by modern and contemporary artists. 

 

 

 

 

Art | Basel | Hong Kong

Booth # 1B31

 

 

15-17 March 2015

 

 

Rod will be exhibiting work with

Miles McEnery Gallery.

 

 

 

Art | Basel | Miami Beach

Booth # H-03

 

 

4–7 December 2014

 

 

Rod will be exhibiting new work with 

Miles McEnery Gallery.

 

 

Leading international galleries show work from masters of Modern and contemporary art.

 

 

 

 

The New Orleans Advocate

Review of 'Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection'

 

 

19 November 2014

 

 

And don’t miss a quartet of small, exquisitely rendered paintings by Rod Penner: in their Polaroid-like shape and scale they look like they could have wandered over to NOMA from the Ogden’s current “Self Processing” show across town.

 

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New Orleans Museum of Art

Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection

 

8 November 2014 - 25 January 2015

 

 

New Orleans, LA— The New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to present Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection, the most extensive presentation to-date of the Photorealist painting collection of Sydney and Walda Besthoff. Unveiled with the Odyssey Gala on Friday, November 7, this exhibition will highlight one of the finest photorealist collections in the United States.

 

 

 

Bilbao Fine Arts Museum

Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting

 

7 October 2014 - 19 January 2015

 

 

In the late nineteen-sixties, a group of artists made a name for themselves in the United States by using photography as a basis for painting everyday scenes and objects with extraordinary realism. They gelled into what became known as the Hyperrealist movement, which took flight at the 1972 Kassel Documenta and remains airborne today.

 

 

 

ARTnews

Rod Penner and Suzanne Caporael 

Review by Lilly Wei

 

 

February 2014

 

 

Rod Penner's small, meticulously painted landscapes of Texas and its environs, all from the last three years, pack a hefty amount of big sky and small town into their abbreviated formats. 

 

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Huffington Post

Rod Penner

Interview by John Seed

 

 

25 October 2013

 

Rod Penner, a Texas-based photorealist, is currently showing a selection of his painstakingly crafted paintings of small town Texas at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe in New York. The exhibition – which New York Magazine hailed as “superb” – includes a suite of six inch square paintings that feature bravura depictions of tire stores, muddy roads and rutted asphalt.

 

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New York Magazine

Critics' Pick

See Rod Penner

 

 

23 October 2013

 

 

This Texan photorealist paints what he sees, purely and unadorned: the plastic signage, dusty parking lots, and junked-up landscapes of small-town Texas. Real Americana, idealized not one whit. Superb. 


Ameringer McEnery Yohe, through November 23.

 

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