NYAB Event - Brent Wadden Exhibition

Brent Wadden Exhibition

Mitchell-Innes & Nash (534 W 26th St.)

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Mitchell-Innes & Nash presents a solo exhibition of 8 new woven paintings by Canadian-born artist, Brent Wadden. This will be the first exhibition with the artist since he joined the gallery in 2014 and his first major solo exhibition in New York City.

Known for his woven paintings—made of handwoven fibers, wool, cotton, and acrylic on canvas—Wadden’s work often disrupts traditional divisions between folk art and fine art. His abstract works complicate the painterly notion of surface, while reconsidering the concept of the handmade. In a labor-intensive process, Wadden works on a floor loom, weaving yarn and wool into geometric, abstract designs. He then stitches together these woven panels and mounts the finished work on raw canvas to create visually jagged, geometric constructions.

Conscious of the tone, density, and tension of his materials and practice, the artist’s focus on form seeks to reinterpret traditional gender roles in art-making and craftsmanship. Wadden’s paintings reference both a structural life and planar presence, which further seek to rework ideas of space and mark-making.

Brent Wadden (b. 1979, Nova Scotia, Canada) lives and works between Vancouver, Canada and Berlin, Germany. He received his B.F.A. from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2003. His work has been shown in recent international group exhibitions such as Mingei: Are You Here?, Pace Gallery, New York (2014); Abstract America Today, Saatchi Gallery, London (2014); Frauen, die Asstellung, curated by Elena Brugnano and Lena Ispen at Autocenter, Berlin (2014); WITH SMALL WORDS, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2014). He has presented solo shows at Peres Projects, Berlin (2015), Almine Reich Gallery, Brussels (2014) and Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels (2013).