WES LANG
Dreamworld, 2021
50 in. x 38 in. / 127 cm. x 96.52 cm.
Acrylic on paper
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 the middle of the last century such as Twombly, Guston, Kline, Mitchell, and Bacon dovetailing on up to the more contemporary such as Basquiat, Kippenberger, and Mike Kelley.
In 2014, Lang made his institutional debut with “The Studio” at the ARoS Museum of Art in Aarhus, Denmark. His pieces are included in many notable international collections including MOMA and Murderme.
A monograph drawing on more than 25 years’ worth of material was released by Rizzoli in September 2021. Lang is represented worldwide by Almine Rech. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Courtesy of the artist and Almine Rech
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