Celebrated British painter Rose Wylie--whose works are at once
tactile, cerebral, and humorous--often draws her influence from a wide
range of popular culture. Here her newest body of work references
memories from her own life and mimics the way memories evolve and change
over time.
Wylie's source material is culled from the vast visual world around her,
ranging from sixteenth-century British estates to Serena Williams and
the French Open. While initially these may seem random or aesthetically
simplistic, through the nuanced use of humor, language, and
compositional structure, Wylie creates wittily observed and subtly
sophisticated meditations on the nature of memory, and visual
representation itself, in line with the paintings she has become known
for over the course of her career.
A new essay by art critic Michael Glover explores the remarkable painter
whose work has "spark, assurance, brash humor, an extraordinary,
freewheeling eclecticism that seems to be just as ready to suck in
references to the art of Ptolemaic Egypt and Roman portraiture as to pay
homage to the films of Quentin Tarantino and the late paintings of
Philip Guston." Part of David Zwirner Books's Spotlight Series, this
book features Wylie's newest paintings and drawings and is published on
the occasion of the artist's 2020 solo exhibition of these works at
David Zwirner Hong Kong.
