Will Insley “Mythological Elsewhere ONECITY”
Westwood Gallery
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Curated by James Cavello
WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC presents a solo exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and photomontages by New York artist, Will Insley (1929-2011), curated by James Cavello. During his lifelong career as an artist, Insley utilized his architectural knowledge of space, structure, and purpose to visualize and create ONECITY, an abstract, mythological civilization. For 50 years he developed ONECITY through writing, poetry, calculations, drawings, paintings, photomontage and sculptural models.
ONECITY is a 675 mile square labyrinthine structure located in the middle of the United States, intended to house 400 million Americans. The paintings on view represent wall fragments uncovered from the vaults of the Opaque Library, the seed and soul of ONECITY. The converging lines on the paintings muse over ratio numerations of order and disorder, a reflection of the overall visual complexity of ONECITY. Insley’s mathematical and mythical construction extends to outer lying abstract /buildings/ representing lessons in abstract architectural form. The abstract /buildings/ are on exhibit as architectural sculptural models, as well as illustrative photomontages from the 1970’s. The lower level gallery focuses on the vintage photomontages and their context in the development of ONECITY.
The mind has an architectural structure of its own and
I have come to know it as the Interior Building – Will Insley, 1977
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Schedule
from September 14, 2018 to November 30, 2018
Opening Reception on 2018-09-13 from 18:00 to 20:00