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PROVENANCE:
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California;
Collection of David Teiger, acquired from the above, 2010;
Sotheby's, New York, July 18, 2019, lot 216.
Will Fowler was born in Winston-Salem, NC and currently live and works in Los Angeles. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992 and an MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2000.
Fowler's plethoric patterned canvases are mesmerizing in their intensity. Drawing association to 20th c masters such as Dubuffet, Pollock, and Miro, Fowler approaches painting as a 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 a cacophonous abundance of energy and contradiction. His works hold a vivacious tension, each dot, square, and triangle vying for individual recognition; the solidity of his geometry further unsettled with casual intuitiveness of painterly gesture.
Los Angeles-based writer Michael Ned Holte succinctly described Fowler’s approach: “Deploying straight-from-the-tube acrylic colors in riotous assemblies of geometric shapes – circles, squares, triangles, and snaking paths – that cover each painting’s surface, Fowler pushes familiar, slyly referential forms into complex compositions, suggesting a rich, even allegorical potential for the medium without a whiff of irony or nostalgia.” His paintings can embody seemingly dysfunctional systems, structures and processes, creating highly idiosyncratic works that explore, expand upon, and explode the legacies and conventions of non-representational painting.
Fowler’s paintings and drawings have appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, and Vienna, Austria, and are held in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and the Saatchi Collection in London.
PROVENANCE:
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, California;
Collection of David Teiger, acquired from the above, 2010;
Sotheby's, New York, July 18, 2019, lot 216.
Will Fowler was born in Winston-Salem, NC and currently live and works in Los Angeles. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1992 and an MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2000.
Fowler's plethoric patterned canvases are mesmerizing in their intensity. Drawing association to 20th c masters such as Dubuffet, Pollock, and Miro, Fowler approaches painting as a 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 a cacophonous abundance of energy and contradiction. His works hold a vivacious tension, each dot, square, and triangle vying for individual recognition; the solidity of his geometry further unsettled with casual intuitiveness of painterly gesture.
Los Angeles-based writer Michael Ned Holte succinctly described Fowler’s approach: “Deploying straight-from-the-tube acrylic colors in riotous assemblies of geometric shapes – circles, squares, triangles, and snaking paths – that cover each painting’s surface, Fowler pushes familiar, slyly referential forms into complex compositions, suggesting a rich, even allegorical potential for the medium without a whiff of irony or nostalgia.” His paintings can embody seemingly dysfunctional systems, structures and processes, creating highly idiosyncratic works that explore, expand upon, and explode the legacies and conventions of non-representational painting.
Fowler’s paintings and drawings have appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, and Vienna, Austria, and are held in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and the Saatchi Collection in London.
