New work by British artist Rose Wylie on view at David Zwirner
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Friday, December 13, 2024


New work by British artist Rose Wylie on view at David Zwirner
Installation view of Rose Wylie: Car and Girls. Photo: Jack Hems.



LONDON.- David Zwirner is presenting new work by British artist Rose Wylie (b. 1934) in The Upper Room at the gallery’s London location. The exhibition features both two- and three-dimensional works, emphasising the interchange between painting and sculpture in the artist’s practice and highlighting the way in which her move into sculpture in recent years has enabled her to explore new perspectives on recurrent motifs.

Wylie has become known for her uniquely recognisable, colourful, and exuberant compositions that at first glance appear aesthetically simplistic, not seeming to align with any discernible style or movement, but on closer inspection are revealed to be wittily observed and subtly sophisticated meditations on the nature of visual representation itself. While sculpture is a relatively new innovation in the artist’s body of work, introduced within the last five years, Wylie has long been interested in exploring perspectival and compositional strategies other than, and as well as, traditional Renaissance perspective, frequently making numerous iterations of a given theme or motif as a means of advancing her formal investigation. As curator Melissa Blanchflower has described, ‘Wylie ultimately selects the subjects of her paintings for their intrinsic value as images. She is interested in the collision of different forms.… This dispels any pre-conceived hierarchy between genres, subjects and scale. It is composition, colour, form and pace that connect [her works] … not their depicted subjects.’1

Wylie’s sculptures derive from motifs found in her paintings and drawings, a number of which are presented side by side in this exhibition. Her dense handling of paint and frequent use of collage elements in her paintings lend themselves naturally to the material presence of sculpture. A painting of a boxy 1950s-style car outlined in black paint and filled in with long, feathery brushstrokes becomes a ceramic wall relief composed of stacked, slightly irregular geometric shapes that coalesce into the impression of a car, allowing Wylie to further break down the form. Meanwhile, pirouetting red silhouettes constructed from painted aluminium mirror Wylie’s paintings of a range of female forms that expand upon her ongoing interest in divergent notions of beauty. For the artist, working in three dimensions represents a further act of translation from original image to painting to sculpture that equally brings out the formal qualities of these shapes as well as their symbolic resonances, extending her distinctive visual language to the realm of the viewer.

Rose Wylie (b. 1934) studied at Folkestone and Dover School of Art, Kent, and the Royal College of Art, London, from which she graduated in 1981. The artist’s first solo exhibition took place in 1985 at the Trinity Arts Centre, in Kent. In recent years, she has had solo presentations at venues including the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia (2012); Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, England (2012); Tate Britain, London (2013); Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, Norway (2013); Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany (2014); The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2015); Space K, Seoul (2016); Chapter, Cardiff (2016); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2016); Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London (2017); Plymouth Arts Centre and The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, England (2018; travelled to Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Cornwall, England); Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (2018); and The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida (2020).




In 2020, Rose Wylie: where i am and was, the artist’s first solo museum presentation in the United States, was on view at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado. Also in 2020, the solo exhibition Hullo Hullo Following-on was on view at the Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul. In 2021, a solo exhibition of the artist’s work was presented at the Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland.

In 2014, Wylie was awarded the John Moores Painting Prize, presented by the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2014), and was also elected as a Senior Royal Academician. In 2015, she received the Royal Academy of Arts’ Charles Wollaston Award. In 2018, she was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for her services to art.

Wylie’s work can be found in prominent collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the Arario Museum, Seoul; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Space K, Seoul; Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany; Tate, London; and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

The artist’s work has been represented by David Zwirner since 2017, and this is her fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. She lives and works in Kent, England.

1 Melissa Blanchflower, ed., ‘Quack Quack, Ack Ack’, in Rose Wylie: Quack Quack. Exh. cat. (London: Serpentine Galleries, 2017), p. 28.










Today's News

January 22, 2022

At 83, Arne Glimcher indulges his inner curator

Phoenix Art Museum selects Jeremy Mikolajczak to serve as museum's new director and CEO in national search

Picasso's Surrealist masterpiece 'La Fenêtre Ouverte' to be offered at auction for the first time

Meat Loaf, 'Bat Out of Hell' singer and actor, dies

A dollhouse you could call home

New work by British artist Rose Wylie on view at David Zwirner

Christie's Americana Week totals $23,686,438

Regen Projects opens an exhibition of new works by Rachel Harrison

Renato Leotta's first exhibition at Sprovieri opens in London

Verisart announces its inaugural curated NFT auction on Artsy

Clare Lilley appointed new Director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Historic, contemporary, and never-before-displayed works pose timeless questions

Lawsuit says faculty at a top arts school preyed on students for decades

Award winning Iranian artist Mohammad Barrangi transforms Edinburgh Printmakers for first solo exhibition in Scotland

The Halsey Institute's new exhibition spotlights Native women

Brooklyn Public Library opens first ever Lenape-curated exhibition in New York

After being stuck in Russia, a director touches down in Germany

Elza Soares, who pushed the boundaries of Brazilian music, dies at 91

Everett Lee, who broke color barriers on the conductor's podium, dies at 105

75 years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, a major auction of moments and memories

Hardy Kruger, German-born Hollywood star, is dead at 93

The Architecture Drawing Prize 2021 Exhibition opens at Sir John Soane's Museum

Taylor Mac's 'Fever Dream': Exploring the philosophy of the hang

Exhibition of new collage, ceramic and audio work by Sam Keogh opens at Kerlin Gallery

Diamond Art: The DIY Craft Art Lovers Can't Get Enough Of

How to Keep Construction Costs Low with Online Time Clock Software

How to Start A Boondoggle with 4 Strands

How Crucial Is It To Have A Good Number of Followers For a Business

Online casinos - Tips for making the right choice

I Own Ethereum, Says Billionaire Ray Dalio

How to Design a Perfect E-commerce Website in 2022?




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful