Willa Wasserman

Willa Wasserman - HIGH ART
Willa Wasserman’s painting traffics in a state of continual emergence.

Her figures are loose and diaphanous, at times unknowable, each charged by the small shifts in materiality and atmosphere that span her many surfaces (stretched linen, polished copper, brass, or otherwise). But rather than resolving into definition, the artist’s universe remains in flux: change and translucence are often themselves the defining forms. Marrying historical technique with keen material experimentation–oil paint and silverpoint, to metallic substrates and oxidizing reagents–Wasserman conjures bodies and landscapes in a breathing library of shifting desire and identity. Tender moments of intimacy reveal themselves through hazy, incandescent gestures. Dream-like silhouettes that slowly react over time suggest histories as well as futures of transitional selfhood. With great sensitivity, Wasserman’s artworks speak to the gossamer mechanisms through which sex and self are ceaselessly formed.

Willa Wasserman was born in 1990 in Evansville, USA. She lives and works in New York, USA. Recent solo exhibitions include: High Art, Paris, France; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, USA; Downs & Ross, New York, USA; Good Weather, Chicago, USA; in lieu, Los Angeles, USA; The Gallery at Michaels, Santa Monica, USA. Group exhibitions include: No Name, Paris, France; Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, UK; Michael Werner Gallery, London, UK; Bally Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland; Downs & Ross, New York, USA; Adams and Ollman, Portland, USA; Sargent’s Daughters, New York, USA; and Park View / Paul Soto, Los Angeles, USA.

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Willa Wasserman - HIGH ART
b. 1990 in Evansville, USA
Lives and works in New York, USA

SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS

2023
Mirror xx,xxx,x, François Ghebaly, New York, USA
2022
TS Clef, High Art, Paris, France
Quickening, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, USA
2021
chasm sweet, Downs & Ross, New York, NY
2020
Crawling on hands and knees, flowers and well, Good Weather, Chicago, USA
Flyers flying, in lieu, Los Angeles, USA
2019
Pretty Rooms, The Gallery at Michaels, Los Angeles, USA
UCLA MFA Thesis Show, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Nothing Special 2 (Garden Club), Nothing Special, Los Angeles, USA
Nothing Special 2 (Garden Club), Nothing Special, Los Angeles, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Flesh & Flowers, No Name, Paris, France
Malediction and Prayer, Stuart Shave Modern Art, London, England
Full and Pure: Body, Materiality, and Gender, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, USA
Drawings Alloy, Black Brick Project, Brooklyn, New York
Un Lac Inconnu, Bally Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland
Familiar Faces, Black Brick Project, New York, USA
2022
Interior, Michael Werner Gallery, London, UK
2021
Dear John, Adams and Ollman, Portland, USA
2020
My Flannel Knickers, Sargent’s Daughters, New York City, USA
2019
hysteresis, Downs & Ross, New York City, USA
Automatic Door, Park View / Paul Soto, Los Angeles, USA
2016
Rules of Attraction, 395 Johnson, Brooklyn, USA
2015
Seed and Grave, Ress, Queens, USA
2011
Minerva, Groningsh Museum, Groningen, the Netherlands

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