Solomon Rousseau

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Current Exhibition:

January 10 - March 01, 2026.

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Solomon Rousseau | Lindsey Harald-Wong

Location: Reisig and Taylor Contemporary (603 N Western Ave, Los Angeles, 90004).

Type: Dual Exhibition.

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Bio

Solomon Rousseau is a Jamaican-American artist based in Los Angeles. Working across painting, sculpture, installation, and photography, his practice takes-place through repetition, reduction, and physical processes yielding interstitial and iterative entities. At once primitively elemental and rigorously formal, his works fall from latent material and conceptual residues of Minimalism, Post-Minimalism, Mono-ha, Post-Conceptualism, and Land Art. But his practice also overruns these historical categories/contexts as his works inhabit deep, terrestrial or planetary time along humming tensions between control and impermanence, precision and decay. And, to some extent, his works overrun the context of Art itself by returning to the primordial place between being and becoming (something else): the event horizon of objects, subjects, and things.

His work unfolds as a sustained meditation: a laborious rhythm of destruction and creation that seeks balance between chaos and order, instinct and structure. Rousseau’s process is both alchemical and materialist, joining chance, ambiguity, and indistinction to measured construction through the use of utilitarian industrial materials—raw and refined, organic and synthetic. Materials are not employed to depict (displace or represent) but to disclose and unconceal: elliptically eclipsed surfaces, densities, and resistances become records of touch, gravity, and time.

Though the artist’s hand remains legible, it is deliberately restrained, echoing natural accidents and overlooked phenomena. This often-invisible labor, understood as an existential condition, blurs the boundary between (not-)making and (not-)being. The resulting works exist in suspension between presence and absence, matter and thought. They are not representations but encounters, sustaining a pause within the interval between seeing and feeling, where silence, space, and process emerge as the true medium and primordial material.

Rousseau’s consciously attuned practice has developed along an unconventional path, shaped by autodidactic research and residencies in Sweden, Indonesia, Mexico, Japan, France, and China rather than formal institutional training. Following his first solo exhibition in 2020 at the Bendix Building in Los Angeles, he was stranded abroad during the pandemic and spent two years living in solitude in the Colombian Andes—an experience that further deepened the introspective and material rigor of his work. Since returning to Los Angeles, he has exhibited at Giovanni’s Room (Los Angeles, 2024), Redacted Art Fair (Los Angeles, 2025), and Silke Lindner (New York, 2025). The 2026 exhibition at Reisig and Taylor Contemporary (Los Angeles) is his first dual exhibition.

Ahead and already: Rousseau continues to develop new sculptural series and site-responsive installations, marking the next phase of an evolving practice grounded in material attention, temporal awareness, and the resonance of form as living experience.

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