George Rush: Assisted Living

A three-year project by George Rush culminates in an installation of 204 paintings. Rush, who has spent years painting the boundary between inside and outside, continues this exploration with paintings generated from cell phone photographs made during walks and drives throughout Columbus, OH, and candid moments from work and home life. Though each work starts with the now ubiquitous cell phone image, they are more than a treatise on technological reproduction; they are a meditation on the visual rhythms of suburbia. While this array of moments might potentially lend themselves to cacophony, they instead evenly and calmly illustrate the lay of our current psychological landscape. Collectively, they consider a span that begins before COVID-19, deepens during the height of the pandemic, and tapers off with the slow acclimation to our “new normal.”