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Rose Wylie

ROSE WYLIE

When Found becomes Given David Zwirner 3 April–23 May 2025 London
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David Zwirner is pleased to announce When Found becomes Given, an exhibition of paintings by British artist Rose Wylie (b. 1934) at the gallery’s location in London. This presentation will include new and recent canvases and multipanel works that feature Wylie’s bold, uniquely recognisable compositions, which reveal witty observations and subtly sophisticated meditations on the nature of visual representation itself. The exhibition will follow Wylie’s first solo show in Los Angeles, CLOSE, not too close, which took place in fall 2023 at David Zwirner, and precedes her solo exhibition Flick and Float at Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland, opening July 19. This will be the artist’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery.

Rose Wylie has become known for her uniquely recognizable, colourful, and exuberant compositions that appear aesthetically candid, not seeming to align with any discernible style or movement, but on closer inspection are revealed to be wittily observed and subtly sophisticated meditations on the nature of visual representation itself. The artist has long been interested in exploring perspectival and compositional strategies other than—and along with—traditional Renaissance perspective, frequently making numerous iterations of a given motif as a means of advancing her formal investigation. Working in both single- and multipanel formats, she regularly juxtaposes apparently disparate imagery, creating visual rhymes and resonances that coalesce into a unified composition.

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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
Since opening its doors in 1993, David Zwirner has been home to innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. The gallery 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 and estates. Based in New York with spaces in Chelsea and the Upper East Side, David Zwirner expanded to Europe in 2012 with a gallery in an eighteenth-century Georgian townhouse in London’s Mayfair district, and opened its first gallery in Asia in January 2018 in Central Hong Kong.
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David Zwirner contemporary art gallery in London
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