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Rose Wylie

ROSE WYLIE

Rose Wylie: endlesslyinappropriate | Online Viewing Room David Zwirner 10 January–16 February 2020 Online Only
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The floor of Rose Wylie‘s studio in Kent, England, is covered with newspapers-source material for her art, which references films, celebrities, athletes, news stories, and renaissance paintings without hierarchy, but often through the filter of her own memory.

In this new series of hand-finished editioned prints, Wylie re-examines her personal history while experimenting with varying ways to intervene on each unique work using oils, watercolours, and coloured pencils.

These large-scale prints are based on one of her original pages from ‘Clothes I Wore’, a collection of drawings and collages depicting the artist’s memorable garments, along with objects from her personal life: Victorian spoons, say, or her cat Pete.

Much like her breakthrough ‘Glamour Girl’ paintings, these editions render the private in a public manner. As Wylie has said, ‘a diary can become history if better known.’

This online presentation debuts in parallel with the artist’s solo exhibition at the gallery in Hong Kong. Rose Wylie painting a noun... is on view through Saturday, February 22.

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About the Artist

British artist Rose Wylie (b. 1934) creates paintings and drawings that on first glance appear aesthetically simplistic, not seeming to align with any recognizable style or movement, but on closer inspection are revealed to be wittily observed and subtly sophisticated mediations on the nature of visual representation itself. The layers of newspaper that line her studio floor are a frequent source of material for the artist, as she encounters images by chance while working. Drawing from such wide-ranging cultural areas as film, fashion photography, literature, mythology, news images, sports, and individuals she meets in her day-to-day life, Wylie paints colorful and exuberant compositions that are uniquely recognizable. The artist has acknowledged her great admiration for Philip Guston, whose late paintings likewise make use of an idiosyncratic visual lexicon, the directness of cartoonish figures, and a flattened perspective, but simultaneously betray a deep awareness of art history and painterly conventions.

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About the Gallery
David Zwirner is a contemporary art gallery with locations in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Hong Kong, and currently represents more than eighty artists and estates. The gallery has been home to innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. Active in both the primary and secondary markets, David Zwirner has helped foster the careers of some of the most influential artists working today and has maintained long-term representation of a wide-ranging, international group of artists.
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The David Zwirner Books Shop is now open at 525 West 19th Street, on Tue-Sat weekly from 10 AM-6PM.
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