Roland Reiss Digital Catalog Out Now

The digital catalog for Roland Reiss: Unrepentant Beauty is now available to view. Featuring a rich survey of Reiss’ celebrated flower paintings, the publication places special focus on his Unrepentant Flowers series, offering insight into the artist’s distinctive vision and enduring exploration of beauty.

Roland Reiss (1929–2020) was one of the most distinctive and intellectually rigorous voices in postwar American art. About his floral paintings Reiss stated, “Flowers are the vehicle for putting everything I have learned about painting into my work.” The resulting paintings move fluidly between abstraction and figuration, combining bold color, gestural energy, and spatial complexity. Rather than depicting flowers, Reiss uses them as a framework for exploring perception, materiality, and the enduring power of visual experience.