About the artist:

For Vladimir German, a painter who left the Soviet Union in 1981 and now resides in New York, painting is an occasion for reconstituting the world of appearances in terms of a series of discrete impressions animated with glowing color. In this show German focused on bodies of water, a subject he has treated frequently in recent years, revealing, once again, his interest in multipanel formats. In Far Rockaway Seascape—Ocean, 1982–90, a central image depicting rolling waves and cloudy mists, is surrounded by side panels used to elaborate various aqueous effects; each frame focused on a different aspect of the seascape depicted in the center section. In other words, German has broken the integrated spatial and temporal point of view that provided the foundation of traditional single-moment, perspectival representation. In “36 Views of the Ocean,” 1990, German worked in various formats including — Ronny Cohen, ArtForum