Brian Wills "Paintings"
Nyehaus
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Nyehaus presents Brian Wills: Paintings. In order to penetrate the work of Brian Wills lets back up to the years leading up to Wills’ frontal assault in to life as a painter. Historically for instance, when an artist like Robert Irwin began plotting his artistic course, the work began in the studio. Messy albeit beautiful Abstract Expressionist canvases gave way to the Line Paintings, sublime studies of the eye’s ability to discern the slight movement of a horizontal line on a atmospheric background; the steady hand, nonetheless, ever present. These works lead in to the Dot Paintings, convex canvases painstakingly saturated with optically charged red and green microdots across the canvas. Then the Disks, metal or plexi concave disks hovering a few inches from the wall competing with the moon in their majesty. From there the object disappears all together, an empty gallery with an almost invisible intervention of scrim; a fluid and seemingly effortlessly measured path from one body of work to the next. All the work took place in the studio.
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from November 18, 2010 to January 08, 2011