



Just Between You and Me
2023
Just Between You and Me presents a large-format sheet of paper consumed by black gesso, its velvety, light-absorbing surface interrupted by the delicate incisions of colored pencil. Samantha Roth works the waxy pigment across the darkened ground with a tension that feels both intimate and withheld, as though color is being coaxed into visibility rather than freely given. The scale, nearly 140 centimeters tall, gives the work a near-bodily presence, and the handmade quality of the surface rewards close attention, revealing the layered, labored marks beneath what initially reads as seamless darkness. Roth has developed a distinctive practice around the charged relationship between concealment and disclosure, using black gesso as a field that simultaneously suppresses and activates whatever is drawn into it. Colored pencil, a medium associated with intimacy and precision, becomes something quietly defiant here, holding its own against the absorptive ground. The title carries the register of a whispered confidence, suggesting that what is revealed in the work is offered selectively, to the attentive viewer willing to look long enough. Works on paper of this ambition and scale are relatively rare in Roth's output, making Just Between You and Me a significant acquisition opportunity. Offered through Public Gallery, the piece is signed by the artist and arrives unframed, allowing the collector to consider presentation as an extension of the work's own formal decisions. It is a piece that rewards sustained living with, deepening over time in the way that genuinely private things tend to do.
- Medium
- Black gesso, colored pencil on paper
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Public Gallery, London
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Public GalleryView on map
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