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Wendell Gladstone: Fever Pitch

Past exhibition
6 January - 17 February 2018
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Overview
Wendell Gladstone, Fever Pitch

Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Fever Pitch, a series of new paintings by Los Angeles-based Wendell Gladstone. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

 

Over the past decade, Gladstone has produced figurative paintings that evoke dream-like spaces, free from the logic that typically governs traditional representation. He uses allegory and metaphor to examine a wide swath of cultural references—from art history to contemporary politics and personal experience—and allows his subconscious to guide the narratives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The new paintings in Fever Pitch continue the artist’s interest in surreal states. Each piece carefully balances figuration and abstraction, as if stuck between reality and a feverish hallucination, so that the scenes feel both familiar and strange. The nonlinear spaces and bright, acidic colors portray ominous environments in which the characters dance, march, sleep, and generally find themselves caught in transitional circumstances.

 

Throughout, relief-like flat blocks of color give the works dimensionality and form. The contours of one figure provide shape for another, and the background of the paintings offer windows for other subjects to peep through, echoing the viewer’s gaze. The margins are often filled with monochromatic figures that parade along the borders of the canvas, providing sub-plots for the central narrative.

 

This new series offers a seductive invitation into the agitation and boundless energy of the human psyche. Layered with meanings and slippery conclusions, the unstable moods of Fever Pitch reflect and respond to our unique social and political moment, constantly in flux and permeated by unease.

 

 

 

 

 

Works
  • Wendell Gladstone, Above the Fray, Under the Weather, 2017
    Wendell Gladstone, Above the Fray, Under the Weather, 2017
  • Wendell Gladstone Cat Walk, 2017 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 60 inches
    Wendell Gladstone
    Cat Walk, 2017
    Acrylic on canvas
    72 x 60 inches
  • Wendell Gladstone, Liminal Lady, 2017
    Wendell Gladstone, Liminal Lady, 2017
  • Wendell Gladstone Locomotive, 2017 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 66 inches
    Wendell Gladstone
    Locomotive, 2017
    Acrylic on canvas
    72 x 66 inches
  • Wendell Gladstone Moon In My Mirror, 2017 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 54 inches
    Wendell Gladstone
    Moon In My Mirror, 2017
    Acrylic on canvas
    72 x 54 inches
  • Wendell Gladstone Voodoo, 2017 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 78 inches
    Wendell Gladstone
    Voodoo, 2017
    Acrylic on canvas
    60 x 78 inches
  • Wendell Gladstone, You Can Go Home Again, 2017
    Wendell Gladstone, You Can Go Home Again, 2017
Installation Views
  • Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

    Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

  • Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

    Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

  • Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

    Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

  • Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

    Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

  • Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

    Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

  • Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

    Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

  • Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

    Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

  • Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

    Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

  • Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

    Wendell Gladstone. Fever Pitch, 2018. Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles

Press
  • Wendell Gladstone. Solid Gold, 2017

    Hyperallergic: Best of 2018 - Our Top 15 Los Angeles Art Shows

    Jennifer Remenchik, Hyperallergic, December 1, 2018
  • Wendell Gladstone, Fever Pitch. 2018

    Juxtapoz Magazine: Fever Pitch - An Interview with Wendell Gladstone

    Juxtapoz Magazine, February 15, 2018
  • Wendell Gladstone. Moon Shadow, 2018

    Art and cake: wendell gladstone's "fever pitch" at shulamit nazarian

    Eve Wood, Art and Cake, January 6, 2018
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