June, July & August
Stems Gallery•Oct 09, 2025 — Nov 01, 2025
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Stems Gallery presents June, July & August, a solo exhibition of oil paintings by American painter, Paul Rouphail. This is the artist’s fourth exhibition with the gallery.
As in the first page of a book or the introductory scene of a movie, the painting says, “you are here”. This proclamation where space and time merge is at the heart of Paul Rouphail’s work. Space is explored throughout the exhibition, combining of elements and techniques reminiscent of the Hudson River School, American Regionalism, and the history of cinema. In three of the ten new paintings, time is represented ambiguously and ominously by calendar dates, painted in plain, cream-white lettering.
In quoting the the manner in which a film by French director Eric Rohmer is chaptered or in which a domestic interior of a Yazujiro Ozu film is staged, Rouphail’s use of illusory markers of time give the viewer a starting point: the impression of a moment, the seasonality of a feeling. In the artist’s pantings, what appears…
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June, July & August
Stems Gallery•Oct 09, 2025 — Nov 01, 2025
Press Release
Stems Gallery presents June, July & August, a solo exhibition of oil paintings by American painter, Paul Rouphail. This is the artist’s fourth exhibition with the gallery.
As in the first page of a book or the introductory scene of a movie, the painting says, “you are here”. This proclamation where space and time merge is at the heart of Paul Rouphail’s work. Space is explored throughout the exhibition, combining of elements and techniques reminiscent of the Hudson River School, American Regionalism, and the history of cinema. In three of the ten new paintings, time is represented ambiguously and ominously by calendar dates, painted in plain, cream-white lettering.
In quoting the the manner in which a film by French director Eric Rohmer is chaptered or in which a domestic interior of a Yazujiro Ozu film is staged, Rouphail’s use of illusory markers of time give the viewer a starting point: the impression of a moment, the seasonality of a feeling. In the artist’s pantings, what appears…























































