NADA Miami 2024

Roest’s paintings investigate the relationship between representation and deception by pushing the potential of artifice to its nth degree. The eye immediately registers angelic shapes and forms. Roest takes it to the next step by asking the viewer to join this next permutation: paintings that were memes that were photos that were angels that were clouds. Roest cites Northern Dutch landscape paintings as well as the work of Volodymyr Orlovsky and Isaac Levitan as key influences. Here, new forms and classical art tradition are reproduced and married in paint.