RIPE

Ripe brings together the work of four Genre painters – Gideon Rubin, Todd Hunter, Robert Malherbe and Niyaz Najafov.

Each of these painters share in the knowledge that observation is the foundation of perception. Their common enthusiasm for the figure, the landscape and the still life is in some small part driven by what is at hand, but each painter invest these humble subjects with an emotional and psychological layering that elevates them. Crucially, it enables the paintings conceptually, making it clear that painting is a conceptual act in and of itself.