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Michael Werner Gallery, Beverly Hills is pleased to present Issy Wood: Wet Reckless, an exhibition of new paintings by American-born, British painter and musician Issy Wood (b. 1993 in Durham, North Carolina).
Wood’s paintings are autobiographical without giving too much away. Balancing confession and concealment, the artist paints intimate pictures with a self-described “smudgy pointillism.” Subjects are chosen for their seductive qualities. Wood describes her choice of subjects as, “capital S Seduction, everything shiny, everything pretty, everything beautifully photographed.” The result is essentially pictures of pictures. The works attempt to both create distance from and instill reverence in the depicted subject: a reluctant dialogue with advertising, the internet, and desire itself.
Despite their supposed allure, Wood finds a latent ugliness in her subjects. In this exhibition, the artist paints, among other objects, cars and guns, two objects that are both coveted and…
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Michael Werner Gallery, Beverly Hills is pleased to present Issy Wood: Wet Reckless, an exhibition of new paintings by American-born, British painter and musician Issy Wood (b. 1993 in Durham, North Carolina).
Wood’s paintings are autobiographical without giving too much away. Balancing confession and concealment, the artist paints intimate pictures with a self-described “smudgy pointillism.” Subjects are chosen for their seductive qualities. Wood describes her choice of subjects as, “capital S Seduction, everything shiny, everything pretty, everything beautifully photographed.” The result is essentially pictures of pictures. The works attempt to both create distance from and instill reverence in the depicted subject: a reluctant dialogue with advertising, the internet, and desire itself.
Despite their supposed allure, Wood finds a latent ugliness in her subjects. In this exhibition, the artist paints, among other objects, cars and guns, two objects that are both coveted and…
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