Will Fowler was born on 1969 in Winston-Salem and currently lives and Works in Los Angeles.Will Fowler's plethoric patterned canvases are mesmerising in their intensity. Drawing association to 20th c masters such as Dubuffet, Pollock, and Miro, Fowler approaches painting as purist pursuit, recycling and quoting from his own lexicon of gesture, mark-making, and iconography. Often taking years to complete, Fowler's paintings refuse to resolve as totalities, but rather dazzle with their cacophonous overabundance of energy and contradiction. In TBD, Fowler's enmeshed motifs compile with vivacious tension, each dot, square, and triangle vying for individual recognition; the solidity of his geometry further unsettled with casual intuitiveness of painterly gesture.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
? White Columns, New York
? David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2004
? Don't Eat Yellow Bricks, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2001
? Galerie Hohenlohe und Kalb, Vienna, Austria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
? Dereconstruction, curated by Matthew Higgs, Gladstone Gallery, New York
? Cloudbreak, Hiromi Yoshii, Organized by David Kordansky, Tokyo, Japan
? (keep feeling) fascination : recent abstract painting in Los Angeles, Luckman Gallery, Cal State L.A., Los Angeles
? Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale
? Concepts from Painting, curated by Martin Prinzhorn, Ar/ge Kunst Galerie Museum/Galleria Museo, Bolzano, Italy
2005
? Beyond the Painted Horizon, Bakersfield College Gallery, Bakersfield
? Sugartown, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
2003
? Inaugural Exhibition, Golinko Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
? Paintingshow, Austrian Art Studio, Chicago
2001
? Will Fowler and Aiko Hachisuka, Hot Coco Lab, Los Angeles
2000
? Upward, not Northward, Storage Gallery, Los Angeles
? Scale, Galerie Hohenlohe und Kalb, Vienna, Austria
1998
? Raw Hide, Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
? Polymorphous Memorialus, Post, Los Angeles
Conclusions:
Initially appearing frenetic and consuming, Will Fowler's layered paintings insist upon perception as an investigative, not passive, process.
What to Do Next...
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