Lot 65
BRIAN WILLS(B. 1970)Untitled (tangerine, galaxy blue and gold), 2025
13 – 27 February 2025, 17:00 PST
Online, Los AngelesUS$7,000 - US$10,000
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BRIAN WILLS (B. 1970)
Untitled (tangerine, galaxy blue and gold), 2025
signed (on the reverse)
thread on wood
12 x 12 x 2 in.
30.5 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm.
signed (on the reverse)
thread on wood
12 x 12 x 2 in.
30.5 x 30.5 x 5.1 cm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Courtesy of Artist and Ochi Gallery, Los Angeles
Brian Wills (b. 1970, Lexington, KY) makes work that builds upon a unique visual vocabulary of thread, paint, and wood, evoking experiential understandings of line, color, space, and object. Conceptualized in alignment with Abstract Minimalism and California Light & Space, singular strands of thread are wrapped around wooden substrates, creating surfaces that appear to vibrate and shift, depending on available light, vantage point, and the architecture of the object. Wills is acutely aware of the mechanics of perception and how the visual cortex interprets data in the form of color, motion, texture, and depth. When exposed to pattern, the brain extrapolates as it habituates, and the artist intentionally interrupts this process to engage the viewer and offer moments of joy, wonder and self- reflection. Wills has been widely exhibited in the US and abroad, and his work is held in numerous private and public collections such as the Jarl and Pamela Mohn Collection, Los Angeles, CA; the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, NY and LA, Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Springs, CA; the Estee Lauder Collection in New York, NY; and Fundación/Colección Jumex in Mexico City, Mexico, Frederick R. Wiseman Art Foundation, Underground Museum, Los Angeles and MAC3, Los Angeles. Wills lives and works in Los Angeles.