Ross Bleckner

Carling Dalenson is pleased to present the gallery's first exhibition with New York based painter Ross Bleckner presenting new works.

Ross Bleckner, born 1949, is originally from Long Island, NY. Bleckner was and still is the youngest artist to have been given a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Ross Bleckner is perhaps best known for his paintings dealing with loss and memory, life and the fragility of life. "Life is short, life is fast" he has said and, "What I really want to do in my life is to bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into this world."

In the early 1990s, he made his first Cell paintings, which make reference to diseased human cells, and his circular dot paintings, which serve as both activism and tribute to the disastrous impact of the AIDS epidemic on New York's gay community. Ross Bleckner joined in 2009 the UNODC as a goodwill Ambassador. The exhibition at Carling Dalenson was Ross Bleckner's first show in Sweden in 20 years.