Paul Rouphail

Stems Gallery is pleased to present Credenza, an exhibition of new paintings by Paul Rouphail for his third solo-presentation with the gallery.

Credenza, an 18th-century Italian word meaning “belief” refers to the room or sideboard table in a wealthy home in which servants were made to sample prepared food for evidence of poison prior to serving it to their noble patrons. Rouphail’s paintings make reference to the double meaning of the word as both a design object now common in middle-class homes and as a testament to faith and fidelity.

Paul Rouphail (b. 1987, Chicago, IL), lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. Rouphail received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence in 2016. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally at Stems Gallery, Paris & Brussels, FR; Smart Objects, Los Angeles, CA; Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY; 707 Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA and Borelli-Edwards Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Recent group exhibitions include Chart, New York, NY; Huxley-Parlour, London, UK; Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome, IT; Jack Barrett Gallery, New York, NY; Carl Kostyal, Stockholm, SE; Stems Gallery with WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong, HK; Tong Art Advisory, East Hampton, NY; Winter Street Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA; Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID; Galerie Sultana, Paris, FR; ALAC, Los Angeles, CA; Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY; Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Pilot Projects, Philadelphia, PA and Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA; among others.

Rouphail’s work has been reviewed online and in print, including the Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Tank Magazine, Artspace, New American Paintings, Maake Magazine, and Gestalten Press’ Imagine Architecture, among others.