Courtesy: the artist and Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland.

A gentle surveillance.

We understand that the paintings of Gideon Rubin’s are revealing, but what is disclosed has considerably less to do with the modest amount of apparel he paints, and more to do with the emotional veracity that the paintings carry.

Rubin’s gaze falls wilfully on the nude, the landscape and the occasional flower. His attraction to the nude figure is never salacious, rather it is driven by a tender observation of domestic privacy and disarmingly acute judgement about the capacity for oil paint, linen and his undemonstrative touch, to conspire so as to deliver images that are apprehended through the heart and mind as much as our eyes.

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