White Room: Rebecca Watson Horn

November 4–December 16, 2017 320 West 13th Street White Room
Two works installed on adjacent walls: This is how it is right now on the left and Are you gonna follow that is that gonna get you where you wanna go on the right.

Rebecca Watson Horn, installation view, 2020

Three works installed on adjacent walls: Are you gonna follow that is that gonna get you where you wanna go and One more (hit) to the senses on the left and If u don't choose yr form yr gonna get one on the right.

Rebecca Watson Horn, installation view, 2020

Four works installed on white walls in a gallery. From left to right: Are you gonna follow that is that gonna get you where you wanna go, One more (hit) to the senses, If u don't choose yr form yr gonna get one and Portrait of Carolyn Liebe Francois-Lazard.

Rebecca Watson Horn, installation view, 2020

Two works installed on adjacent walls: Portrait of Carolyn Liebe Francois-Lazard on the left and Nothing to do no-one to be nowhere to go nothing to see on the right.

Rebecca Watson Horn, installation view, 2020

An abstract text painting. The work is composed of bursts of intense color including red, orange and white over a gray background. The text featured is the title of the work.

Rebecca Watson Horn

This is how it is right now, 2017

Oil, pumice, and sand on canvas

31 × 25 inches

An abstract text painting. The surface is fragmented into sections of pink, green, black and gray. The text featured is the title of the work, rendered in brushstrokes of various sizes and colors.

Rebecca Watson Horn

Nothing to do no-one to be nowhere to go nothing to see, 2017

Oil, pumice, and sand on canvas

32 × 25 inches

Press Release

White Columns is pleased to present a solo exhibition by the New York-based artist Rebecca Watson Horn. The exhibition consists of six recent paintings that Watson Horn describes as “psycho-spiritual.” She sees painting as a means to explore spirituality, the mind, the senses, and to “re-imagine an other self.” Watson Horn complicates the space of her paintings by building up a surface over time and mixing in pumice and sand. The text in her paintings is taken from a reading on Zen and 12 step recovery, a Jewish proverb, and the teaching of the Theravada Buddhists, Thanissara, Kittisaro, and Ajahn Sucitto.

Watson Horn is also a member of Canaries, a healing collective of women and gender non-conforming people living and working with autoimmune conditions and other chronic illnesses.

Rebecca Watson Horn (b. Boston, MA) received a BFA from The Cooper Union in 2007, an MFA Mason Gross from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ in 2015 and is currently studying at The Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles. Horn had a solo exhibition, “Rub It In,” at Soloway, Brooklyn, NY. She has participated in several group exhibitions including “All Always Ready,” as part of Nancy Lupo’s solo exhibition at Kristina Kite, Los Angeles, CA; “Objectified,” Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA; “X,” Lyles & King, New York, NY; “Young Painters Exhibition,” Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, OH; “Role Over,” Gowanus Loft, Brooklyn, NY; “Canaries,” Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, NY, and at Hotel Pupik, Scheifling, Austria. Horn lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

For further information about this exhibition contact: info@whitecolumns.org

Checklist

Two works installed on adjacent walls: This is how it is right now on the left and Are you gonna follow that is that gonna get you where you wanna go on the right.
Three works installed on adjacent walls: Are you gonna follow that is that gonna get you where you wanna go and One more (hit) to the senses on the left and If u don't choose yr form yr gonna get one on the right.
Four works installed on white walls in a gallery. From left to right: Are you gonna follow that is that gonna get you where you wanna go, One more (hit) to the senses, If u don't choose yr form yr gonna get one and Portrait of Carolyn Liebe Francois-Lazard.
Two works installed on adjacent walls: Portrait of Carolyn Liebe Francois-Lazard on the left and Nothing to do no-one to be nowhere to go nothing to see on the right.
An abstract text painting. The work is composed of bursts of intense color including red, orange and white over a gray background. The text featured is the title of the work.
An abstract text painting. The surface is fragmented into sections of pink, green, black and gray. The text featured is the title of the work, rendered in brushstrokes of various sizes and colors.

Rebecca Watson Horn, installation view, 2020 (Two works installed on adjacent walls: This is how it is right now on the left and Are you gonna follow that is that gonna get you where you wanna go on the right.)

Rebecca Watson Horn, installation view, 2020 (Three works installed on adjacent walls: Are you gonna follow that is that gonna get you where you wanna go and One more (hit) to the senses on the left and If u don’t choose yr form yr gonna get one on the right.)

Rebecca Watson Horn, installation view, 2020 (Four works installed on white walls in a gallery. From left to right: Are you gonna follow that is that gonna get you where you wanna go, One more (hit) to the senses, If u don’t choose yr form yr gonna get one and Portrait of Carolyn Liebe Francois-Lazard.)

Rebecca Watson Horn, installation view, 2020 (Two works installed on adjacent walls: Portrait of Carolyn Liebe Francois-Lazard on the left and Nothing to do no-one to be nowhere to go nothing to see on the right.)

Rebecca Watson Horn This is how it is right now, 2017 Oil, pumice, and sand on canvas 31 × 25 inches (An abstract text painting. The work is composed of bursts of intense color including red, orange and white over a gray background. The text featured is the title of the work.)

Rebecca Watson Horn Nothing to do no-one to be nowhere to go nothing to see, 2017 Oil, pumice, and sand on canvas 32 × 25 inches (An abstract text painting. The surface is fragmented into sections of pink, green, black and gray. The text featured is the title of the work, rendered in brushstrokes of various sizes and colors.)