Gary Lang: GLITTERWORKS

Wilding Cran Gallery is pleased to announce GLITTERWORKS, a solo exhibition of new work by Gary Lang. 

Noted as one of the most distinguished artists in Western contemporary art, Lang centres his practice around his love of painting as it explores repetition and the poetics of color and energy.

With GLITTERWORKS, Lang gives us a new body of work, which is an exuberant celebration of the art of painting, contemplating the discipline and drama at the core of play. The gallery walls are adorned with 120, 6x6 inch color-drenched squares of fabric. They are cut from numerous items of clothing that Lang has worn while painting since the beginning of his career, some 40 years ago; layered with dabs and smudges of color that accumulated over time as a bi-product of his more formal work, and then later finished with energetic and ebullient splashes and flecks of paint and glitter. A combination of cumulative and immediate, each painting harvests and juxtaposes the whims of chance, while challenging the trappings of formal composition.

This juxtaposition is taken further on experiencing these 'GLITTERWORKS' in contrast with Lang’s iconic, epic-scale Tondos, one of which is on display in the back gallery at Wilding Cran. The carefully composed concentric circles are almost contrary to the miniature squares in terms of technique, one immediate, while the other considered, but true to Lang’s mastery, both invite the viewer to engage the transformative qualities of colour and form.