John Wesley "May I Cut In? Important Paintings from the Early 70’s"
Fredericks & Freiser Gallery
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Over the last five years, Fredericks & Freiser has presented historical exhibitions that focused on specific periods or series of Wesley’s work: Question of Women (2008), The Bumsteads (2006), and Don’t Eat My Eagle: Paintings from the 1960’s (2005). May I Cut In? Important Paintings from the Early 70’s will be the fourth exhibition to provide a deep examination of a crucial stage of the artist’s production.
During the early 70’s, Wesley met and married the writer Hannah Green. He travelled to Europe for his first time (1971), was included in the seminal Documenta V curated by Harald Szeemann (1972) and had his first European solo exhibition (Rudolf Zwirner Gallery, Cologne 1973). By this time, his position in the art world was firmly outside the mainstream of Pop Art. During these years, his advances in color palette and cartoon figuration move further into the realm of private experience and memory. Focusing less on the idiosyncratic juxtapositions of disparate images and more on perverse narratives, Wesley paints an extremely enigmatic body of work where the only constant is that the ever-present promise of intimacy is never fulfilled.
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from May 06, 2010 to June 12, 2010