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Almine Rech

Wes Lang

Oct 17 — Nov 14, 2020 | Paris
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Over the last several decades, artist Wes Lang has been honing his craft involving, amongst other things, a tireless, obsessive mining of a post-pop American landscape. A great many of the artist’s influences are a  function of a distinct autobiographical experience with certain exceptions; the  indigenous American as well as other totems of the American West, and  painters and sculptors from middle of last century such as Twombly, Guston, Kline, Mitchell, Bacon dove-tailing on up to the more contemporary such as Basquiat,  Kippenberger, and Mike Kelley. To date, Lang has made his mark primarily on canvas and paper -- though his practice extends to include cast bronze sculpture, collage, hotel stationary, fabric, glass and precious metals -- and is known for creating surfaces that sizzle; bombastic mélanges often brimming with elegantly rendered, still rough-around-the-edges imagery of grim reapers, Indian chiefs, fallen country music icons, sultry seductresses, long lost folk legends, dead authors, motorcycles, roses and other flora, birds, horses, all of which jockey for prominence within compositions sewn together (and resolved) by cryptic scrawls with a bittersweet vernacular resonate of Ram Dass and the Tao by way of the edge of the universe.

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Selected artworks

  • Wes Lang,                                      To Make Use Of What Is Not, 2020

    Wes Lang To Make Use Of What Is Not, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    121.9 x 152.4 cm
    48 x 60 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Something Happened To Me Yesterday, 2020

    Wes Lang Something Happened To Me Yesterday, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    274.3 x 243.8 cm
    108 x 96 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Glory Be, 2020

    Wes Lang Glory Be, 2020

    Oil and paper collage on canvas
    1463 x 335.3 x 10.2 cm
    576 x 132 x 4 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      We Worship The Good, 2018

    Wes Lang We Worship The Good, 2018

    Oil on canvas
    274.3 x 426.7 cm
    108 x 168 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      The Sequence, 2020

    Wes Lang The Sequence, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    213.4 x 274.3 cm
    84 x 108 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Lake Of Gold in, 2020

    Wes Lang Lake Of Gold in, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    274.3 x 243.8 cm
    108 x 96 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Pot Study, 2020

    Wes Lang Pot Study, 2020

    Conté crayon on paper
    31.8 x 43.2 cm
    12 1/2 x 17 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Brings Good Things, 2020

    Wes Lang Brings Good Things, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    182.9 x 152.4 cm
    72 x 60 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Munich, 2020

    Wes Lang Munich, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    152.4 x 121.9 cm
    60 x 48 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Yes, The River Knows, 2019

    Wes Lang Yes, The River Knows, 2019

    Acrylic and india ink on paper
    96.5 x 127 cm
    38 x 50 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      One Winter, 2018

    Wes Lang One Winter, 2018

    Acrylic and oil stick on paper
    96.5 x 127 cm
    38 x 50 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      A Sort Of Madness Part 2, 2020

    Wes Lang A Sort Of Madness Part 2, 2020

    Oil and acrylic on canvas
    152.4 x 121.9 cm
    60 x 48 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      A Sort Of Madness Part 1, 2020

    Wes Lang A Sort Of Madness Part 1, 2020

    Oil and acrylic on canvas
    152.4 x 121.9 cm
    60 x 48 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Blind Faith, 2020

    Wes Lang Blind Faith, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    22.9 x 30.5 cm
    9 x 12 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Grand Gestures, 2020

    Wes Lang Grand Gestures, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    22.9 x 30.5 cm
    9 x 12 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Just Me And You, 2020

    Wes Lang Just Me And You, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    22.9 x 30.5 cm
    9 x 12 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      To Tell The Truth, 2020

    Wes Lang To Tell The Truth, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    22.9 x 30.5 cm
    9 x 12 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      My Mirage, 2020

    Wes Lang My Mirage, 2020

    Oil on canvas
    22.9 x 30.5 cm
    9 x 12 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      A Model For All Under Heaven, 2018

    Wes Lang A Model For All Under Heaven, 2018

    Bronze
    50.8 x 58.4 x 33 cm
    20 x 23 x 13 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Turning Points, 2020

    Wes Lang Turning Points, 2020

    Colored pencil and india ink on paper
    96.5 x 127 cm
    38 x 50 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      For the Good Times, 2020

    Wes Lang For the Good Times, 2020

    Oil on paper
    172.7 x 128.3 cm
    68 x 50 1/2 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      In Living, 2019

    Wes Lang In Living, 2019

    Colored pencil on paper
    55.9 x 83.8 cm
    22 x 33 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Inherit Everything, 2019

    Wes Lang Inherit Everything, 2019

    India ink on paper
    55.9 x 76.2 cm
    22 x 30 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Magic Dance 1, 2020

    Wes Lang Magic Dance 1, 2020

    Oil, acrylic, india ink, colored pencil, charcoal and collage
    213.4 x 167.6 cm
    84 x 66 in

  • Wes Lang,                                      Magic Dance, 2020

    Wes Lang Magic Dance, 2020

    Oil, acrylic, india ink, colored pencil, charcoal and collage on paper
    213.4 x 167.6 cm
    84 x 66 in

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