ARTISTS
John Wentz: Navigation Unknown
Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present 鈥淣avigation Unknown鈥�, a solo exhibition by John Wentz. The show will introduce a new series of mixed media paintings examining the transitory space of the urban environment.
鈥淣avigation Unknown鈥� expands the artist鈥檚 ongoing exploration of portraiture through process and mark making. Wentz鈥檚 expressive style delicately balances loose and defined detail, creating human likeness within gestural abstraction. Influenced by his recent time spent in New York, the work is a direct response to the physical textures of the city. Wentz collages advertisements, spray paint and other media to construct dimensional portraits, physically unifying the paintings to their references.
鈥淣avigation Unknown鈥� offers a dynamic observation of the passerby by focusing on the encounters of individuals converging in spaces of transience. The exhibition is twofold, featuring micro and macro perspectives. Dynamic narrative scenes are paired with stripped down portraits of individual passengers. Each piece employs the viewer鈥檚 own projection onto the subjects, allowing an emotive recognition to exude from the figures. Wentz elaborates, 鈥淚 think it鈥檚 a really vulnerable state to be in when you鈥檙e neither here nor there, so to speak. People in transit are unrooted鈥� We are in a constant flux going from point A to point B. I鈥檓 interested in the area between those two points.鈥�
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Hashimoto Contemporary is pleased to present 鈥淣avigation Unknown鈥�, a solo exhibition by John Wentz. The show will introduce a new series of mixed media paintings examining the transitory space of the urban environment.
鈥淣avigation Unknown鈥� expands the artist鈥檚 ongoing exploration of portraiture through process and mark making. Wentz鈥檚 expressive style delicately balances loose and defined detail, creating human likeness within gestural abstraction. Influenced by his recent time spent in New York, the work is a direct response to the physical textures of the city. Wentz collages advertisements, spray paint and other media to construct dimensional portraits, physically unifying the paintings to their references.
鈥淣avigation Unknown鈥� offers a dynamic observation of the passerby by focusing on the encounters of individuals converging in spaces of transience. The exhibition is twofold, featuring micro and macro perspectives. Dynamic narrative scenes are paired with stripped down portraits of individual passengers. Each piece employs the viewer鈥檚 own projection onto the subjects, allowing an emotive recognition to exude from the figures. Wentz elaborates, 鈥淚 think it鈥檚 a really vulnerable state to be in when you鈥檙e neither here nor there, so to speak. People in transit are unrooted鈥� We are in a constant flux going from point A to point B. I鈥檓 interested in the area between those two points.鈥�
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