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AMERINGER | McENERY | YOHE GALLERY - Patrick Wilson

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PATRICK WILSON
28 May–3 July 2015

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – AMERINGER | McENERY | 
YOHE is pleased to announce an exhibition of new 
paintings by Patrick Wilson. The exhibition will open 
on 28 May 2015 and remain on view through 3 July 
2015. A public reception for the artist will be held on 
Thursday 28 May from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The 
exhibition is accompanied by a publication with an 
essay by Stephen Westfall.

Squares, rectangles and lines of bright reds, 
effervescent greens, charged grays and deep blues 
interweave, creating Patrick Wilson’s complex, yet 
nuanced geometric abstractions. Color and value are 
precisely calibrated via numerous thin layers of 
acrylic paint, which overlap in undulating 
combinations of translucency and opacity. 
Destabilizing the picture plane, Wilson’s work picks 
up on the triumphs of the hard edge painters from 
previous generations, while clearly staking out 
territory of his own time and place.

Refusing stasis, Wilson employs clean lines, subtle 
color transitions, and meticulous paint handling to 
activate the surface. Minute maneuvers of sculptural 
depth unground the paintings. Movement, intensity, 
and speed are the operative terms. No longer 
content with traditional figure/ground dynamics, 
Wilson seeks to slowly shift the viewer into a 
prolonged experience, one in which structure and 
logic are replaced with pleasure and intuition. Yet, 
Wilson does not settle for the pleasures of the past, 
rather, he proposes a new space in which the 
contingency of being takes place in the here and 
now. Sometimes jarring, sometimes soothing, 
Wilson’s paintings reside in the tension where 
legibility and knowing give way to unexpected 
encounters not contained by language.

PATRICK WILSON was born in Redding, California in 
1970. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at the 
University of California, Davis in 1993 and his 
Masters of Fine Art degree at Claremont Graduate 
School in California in 1995.

He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including 
“Evolving Geometries: Line, Form, and Color,” Center 
for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA; “Steak 
Night,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, 
Culver City, CA; “Patrick Wilson: Pull,” University Art 
Museum, California State University Long Beach, 
Long Beach, CA; “Slow Motion Action Painting,” 
Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco, CA; and “Slow 
Food,” Curator’s Office, Washington, D.C.

Group exhibitions include “NOW-ism: Abstraction 
Today,” Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; “California 
Visual Music – Three Generations of Abstraction,” 
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, 
CA; “Local Color,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, 
CA; 2010 California Biennial, Orange County 
Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; “Keeping it 
Straight: Right Angles and Hard Edges in 
Contemporary Southern California,” Riverside Art 
Museum, Riverside, CA; and “Gyroscope,” Hirshhorn 
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

His work is included in many public and private 
collections including the Achenbach Foundation for 
Graphic Arts at the Fine Arts Museums of San 
Francisco, CA; the Columbus Museum of Art, 
Columbus, OH; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 
CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Long 
Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Los Angeles 
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Orange 
County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; and the 
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.

Patrick Wilson lives and works in Los Angeles

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