Roberta Gentry

This painting is going to the @highdesertartfair in Pioneertown this weekend with @track16gallery (Room 5) Stop by if you’re in the Joshua Tree/Yucca Valley area! Pumpkin Seed 48 x 36 inches Acrylic on canvas 2026

1+1=2 Sydney Croskery+Roberta Gentry in The Dinner Party Croskery is an artist born and living in Los Angeles, making paintings that are both materially and conceptually rigorous. With a process involving detailed action painting coinciding with writings, Croskery connects the highs and lows in the physical process of abstract painting with political, emotional, overwhelming and hilarious aspects of our world. Title and essay for the paintings connect the personal to the societal to our moment in time, creating a visual record for the complexity of contemporary life. Sydney Croskery has shown at The Bakersfield Museum of Art, Craig Krull Gallery, boxoProjects, and Citrus College Art Gallery, Over the Influence, Monte Vista Projects, Charlie James Gallery, The Fellows of Contemporary Art, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, Jack Tilton Gallery, the Deitch Art Parade, and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. She was a proud member of the LA Art Girls and is one half of The World Famous Wiener Girls of Chicago. Croskery was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Grant for 2018. + Roberta Gentry is a Los Angeles based artist whose work is inspired by the natural world and the balance of order and chaos that exists within it. Using painting, she explores the connections and conflicts that occur between architecture and biology, and questions the divide between natural and artificial. Her most recent solo exhibition, The Walled Garden, at Massey Klein Gallery in NYC opened in February 2025. Group exhibitions include North Loop West (LA), a two-person exhibition with My Pet Ram (NYC), Reynolds Gallery (Richmond), and Bozomag (LA). Gentry has a BFA from the University of Arizona and an MFA from SUNY Albany. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Los Angeles artist-run space, Monte Vista Projects. #themiddleroomgallery #sydneycroskery #robertagentry

This new painting will be part of a group show @themiddleroomgallery that opens next week. I’m honored to be included among an impressive group of artists in the show, and the icing on the cake is that I'm paired with the amazing @sydneycroskery ❤️ Thanks to @shannonraefincke for including my work, and congrats on your 2-year gallery-versary! The Dinner Party 9/26-10/26 Opening reception: Friday, October 3rd, 6-8pm Roberta Gentry “The Silver Cup” 2025 14 x 18 inches Acrylic on canvas Sydney Croskery “When We Live On Mars” 2025 9 x 11 inches Flashe and oil on canvas

Unicorn 3.4 x 4.5 inches Graphite on paper

Each Thursday, the Gallery will highlight a particular artwork we’ve been thinking about. This Thursday’s One Work is: Roberta Gentry, Fountain, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 28 x 36 inches Roberta Gentry’s work is inspired by the natural world’s balance of order and chaos. Her paintings incorporate color and contrast as rhythmic elements, explore the connections and conflicts that occur between architecture and biology, and question the divide between natural and artificial. "Fountain" is from a series of paintings that was created during the artist’s pregnancy and in the days following the birth of her daughter. During this period, Gentry became interested in Marian art, with one 15th-century painting capturing her attention. Madonna on a Crescent Moon in Hortus Conclusus, painted by an unknown artist, features the Virgin Mary sitting in a hortus conclusus (Latin for walled garden) surrounded by stars with smaller figures in the foreground adoringly gazing up at her. Notions of the body as architecture and vice versa occupy the artist’s mind while she works. Her larger paintings are more structural, with more room to explicitly explore the balance (and imbalance) of order and chaos. For the last several years, her work has almost always featured symmetry. Sometimes her figures have roots, limbs, or even a flowering head, but they each represent a bilateral, symmetrical stability born from a central line or “spine.” Is the body, in essence, a walled garden? And is it an impenetrable stone barrier or does it simply provide form and symmetry to complement the biological, and at times celestial, world within it? #robertagentry #thewalledgarden #acryliconcanvas #bodyasarchitecture #marianart #orderandchaos #masseykleingallery #onework #artisthighlight

Thanks again to all who visited our last show, "Studies for a Walled Garden", a presentation of Roberta Gentry's preliminary drawings for her solo show at @masseykleingallery in New York. To have housed these buds, in the quiet of early spring, in our little garden gallery, was to realize a daydream. Thank you Bobbi for sharing them with us. ✍️: Fountain, The Visitation, Egg Shell 📸: @pomonadoobie

Closing Today! Roberta Gentry's solo exhibition, The Walled Garden, closes today, Saturday, April 12th. Massey Klein Gallery is open for viewing today from 12-5pm. Roberta Gentry’s work is inspired by the natural world’s balance of order and chaos. Her paintings incorporate color and contrast as rhythmic elements, explore the connections and conflicts that occur between architecture and biology, and question the divide between natural and artificial. #robertagentry #thewalledgarden #soloexhibition #lastchance #closingsoon #masseykleingallery

Roberta Gentry, Eden, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches Closing Soon! The Walled Garden, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Roberta Gentry, closes on Saturday, April 12th. Roberta Gentry, The Walled Garden February 8 - April 12, 2025 Massey Klein Gallery Wednesday - Saturday, 12-5pm #robertagentry #thewalledgarden #soloexhibition #closingsoon #lastchance #masseykleingallery

"Drawings for a Walled Garden" closes today! We're having a closing reception from 2-5pm. (I'm making a lemon tart from the tree next to the gallery so please come help us eat it.) Thanks to everyone who has come to see this beautiful collaboration with @the.hermitage.la . Billy, Jacob, and Paloma do a generous and wonderful thing for their fellow artists and I'm very grateful for them ❤️ Photo by @pomonadoobie @billyfrolov @jacob_lenc

Roberta Gentry, (detail) Eden, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches The Walled Garden, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Roberta Gentry, closes on Saturday, April 12th. Notions of the body as architecture and vice versa occupy the artist’s mind while she works. Her larger paintings are more structural, with more room to explicitly explore the balance (and imbalance) of order and chaos. Roberta Gentry, The Walled Garden February 8 - April 12, 2025 Massey Klein Gallery Wednesday - Saturday, 12-5pm #robertagentry #thewalledgarden #soloexhibition #closingsoon #lastchance #masseykleingallery

Closing Soon! Roberta Gentry's solo exhibition, The Walled Garden, is on view at Massey Klein Gallery through Saturday, April 12th. Roberta Gentry’s work is inspired by the natural world’s balance of order and chaos. Her paintings incorporate color and contrast as rhythmic elements, explore the connections and conflicts that occur between architecture and biology, and question the divide between natural and artificial. Roberta Gentry, The Walled Garden February 8 - April 12, 2025 Massey Klein Gallery Wednesday - Saturday, 12-5pm #robertagentry #thewalledgarden #soloexhibition #installationimage #onviewnow #closingsoon #masseykleingallery

Roberta Gentry, Seed Pod, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 10 x 8 inches Roberta Gentry, The Walled Garden February 8 - April 12, 2025 Massey Klein Gallery Wednesday - Saturday, 12-5pm #robertagentry #thewalledgarden #soloexhibition #closingsoon #acryliconcanvas #masseykleingallery