March from the collection of LRC

March, 1985

Oil on Canvas

18 x 14 in

Location: Ridgefield, CT

Ross Bleckner’s chandelier paintings are about memory, loss, beauty, and impermanence.

The chandelier appears as a symbol of luxury and light, but in his work it often looks blurred, fading, or unstable. This reflects Bleckner’s long interest in how things that seem solid or beautiful can slowly disappear. Many of these works connect to themes of mortality and grief, especially in the context of the AIDS crisis, which deeply influenced his art.

Rather than depicting a real chandelier in a room, he uses it as an emotional image. The light suggests hope or transcendence, while its fragile form reminds viewers that brightness and life are temporary.

These paintings balance elegance with vulnerability, inviting viewers to reflect on how beauty, memory, and loss coexist.

Ross Bleckner’s March feels like a painting about transition.

Even the title suggests a moment of movement, either the literal month when winter starts to loosen its grip, or the act of marching forward. In Bleckner’s world, that often connects to time passing, and the quiet emotional shift that comes with it.

Visually, his soft, hazy forms tend to look like something half remembered. So March can signify memory surfacing and fading at the same time, like a feeling you can sense but not fully hold onto. It carries that Bleckner tension between beauty and disappearance, light and loss.

Overall, I’d read March as a meditation on change, the fragile moment between endings and beginnings.

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About the artist

Ross Bleckner

b. 1949

Ross Bleckner is a well-known American painter born in New York City in 1949. He studied art at New York University and later earned his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. He became a prominent figure in the New York art scene in the 1980s. Bleckner’s work is mostly abstract and atmospheric, often using soft glowing forms, stripes, dots, flowers, or other symbolic shapes. Many of his paintings explore themes of change, loss, memory, and the fragility of the body, especially in response to the AIDS epidemic.

His art has been shown in major museums worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and is held in important collections such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Bleckner continues to live and work in New York, and his paintings are admired for their luminous quality and emotional depth.

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