Jacob Goble

Rookies
January 11 – February 23

A large painting displayed on a white gallery wall, depicting an abstract style race track scene with blurred cars and vivid colors.

Abstract painting featuring bold geometric shapes predominantly in yellow, white, and gray colors against a backdrop with hints of green foliage.

An abstract painting featuring a blurred racetrack scene with racing cars depicted by simple shapes and colors. The focus is a misty effect in the center, contrasting vibrant green fields around.

Abstract painting depicting a stylized human face reduced to minimal forms on a stark red background. The face features prominent eyes and nose with a dark strip representing a mouth.

Abstract painting featuring geometric shapes, predominantly rectangles, in muted shades of gray, cream, and yellow with pink accents. Some frames appear layered, creating a textured effect.

A painting depicts a blue car parked in an empty parking space, viewed from above. The surrounding ground is gray with white highlights, suggesting wet pavement. The parking space is outlined in white, contrasting with the dark background.

Painting depicts a smoky outdoor scene with scattered cars and a figure in a high-visibility jacket. The foreground is blurry with hints of greenery, and the background includes barriers and vehicles.

Painting of a white bird with black accents standing on one leg against a minimalist backdrop of light blue water and sand dunes under a dark blue sky. The painting is characterized by its simple, smooth brushstrokes and limited color palette.

Press Release

Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present a selection of new paintings by emerging artist Jacob Goble. Goble creates figurative paintings with highly abstract qualities that challenge viewers’ assumptions of narrative.

Taking particularized subject matter, Goble engages in a representational play of objects, not unlike the Belgian surrealist René Magritte, made famous declaring, Ceci n’est pas une pipe. In place of the tight realism of Magritte are smoky images that reinforce the painted surface. Goble paints campfires, decoys, signs, and demolition derbies, but is just as interested in depicting objects in paint, as he is in painting the space around things: the silence, the stillness, the distance, that exists between things. Indeed his paintings are ultimately signals for something outside them.

Dates: January 11–February 23, 2008
Reception: January 19, 6–8 pm
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11 am–4 pm
Location: 514 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102
Contact: 505.766.9888, info@levygallery.com, www.levygallery.com @levygallery