Wardell Milan
12 Dec 2009 - 23 Jan 2010
WARDELL MILAN
“Landscapes! Romance, Recession, and Rottenness”
December 12th, 2009 to January 23rd, 2010
Opening reception, Saturday, December 12th from 6 - 8 p.m.
Taxter & Spengemann is proud to present Landscapes! Romance, Recession, and Rottenness the newest show from critically acclaimed artist Wardell Milan.
Landscapes! Romance, Recession, and Rottenness is intricate, aggressive and sexually thrilling in its attempt to deflate the “Idyllic,” a concept Milan defines as the pristine landscape, the perfect romance, flawless beauty, great power and wealth. The artist’s critical eye breaks down, builds up, rearranges, shreds, and pieces these “truths” back together with, perhaps, a better understanding of the value placed in these constructed ideas.
The thirty plus works on view, ranging in size from 8 x10" to 56 x79” at once contain hints and overt pop references ripped from the pages of fashion, porn, home & garden, and travel literature. His imagery: flowers, men pleasuring each-other, landscapes, and supermodels, smoothly transitions from the sexually explicit to the demure. Milan’s deft manipulation of bold color, stroke, and his signature collage technique is evident throughout the photography, charcoal drawings, paper collages, and paintings of oil, watercolor and crayon, on view here.
Concurrent with Landscapes! Romance, Recession, and Rottenness is Drawings of Harlem a specially commissioned exhibition of 50 works on paper at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Wardell Milan (b. 1978, Knoxville, TN, lives and works in New York, NY) received his BFA from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT, He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in 2004. Milan was an artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem from 2006-07. He has exhibited work at institutions such as P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, and The Museum of The African Diaspora, San Francisco.
“Landscapes! Romance, Recession, and Rottenness”
December 12th, 2009 to January 23rd, 2010
Opening reception, Saturday, December 12th from 6 - 8 p.m.
Taxter & Spengemann is proud to present Landscapes! Romance, Recession, and Rottenness the newest show from critically acclaimed artist Wardell Milan.
Landscapes! Romance, Recession, and Rottenness is intricate, aggressive and sexually thrilling in its attempt to deflate the “Idyllic,” a concept Milan defines as the pristine landscape, the perfect romance, flawless beauty, great power and wealth. The artist’s critical eye breaks down, builds up, rearranges, shreds, and pieces these “truths” back together with, perhaps, a better understanding of the value placed in these constructed ideas.
The thirty plus works on view, ranging in size from 8 x10" to 56 x79” at once contain hints and overt pop references ripped from the pages of fashion, porn, home & garden, and travel literature. His imagery: flowers, men pleasuring each-other, landscapes, and supermodels, smoothly transitions from the sexually explicit to the demure. Milan’s deft manipulation of bold color, stroke, and his signature collage technique is evident throughout the photography, charcoal drawings, paper collages, and paintings of oil, watercolor and crayon, on view here.
Concurrent with Landscapes! Romance, Recession, and Rottenness is Drawings of Harlem a specially commissioned exhibition of 50 works on paper at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Wardell Milan (b. 1978, Knoxville, TN, lives and works in New York, NY) received his BFA from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT, He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in 2004. Milan was an artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem from 2006-07. He has exhibited work at institutions such as P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, and The Museum of The African Diaspora, San Francisco.