Neil Wedman

Neil Wedman, Newspaper #1, 2011

The Shape of Language

Before words are read, they are shapes; before they are interpreted, they are marks, objects, sounds, and material traces. The artists in this exhibition explore what happens when language is transformed into architecture, pattern, archaeological trace, visual form, and recorded object. In doing so, they reveal meaning not as something fixed within language itself, but as something continually produced through acts of looking, listening, recognition, and interpretation. Each of the participating artists investigates the ways meaning is encoded, not always through words themselves, but through symbols, abstraction, material, and gesture. In doing so, they create works that mimic or invoke language without relying on the viewer’s ability to read them. Rather than asking viewers simply to decode what they encounter, the works gathered here reveal that meaning is rarely fixed or universal.

For more information or a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com 

Neil Wedman: Selected Monochromatic Paintings and Works on Paper

Published in conjunction with two exhibitions, Part One of which was held at Equinox Gallery in 2012, while Part Two was presented at the Charles H. Scott Gallery in 2013.

Neil Wedman
Ice Caves

Neil Wedman’s ice caves are created through a process of mixing and then significantly diluting acrylic paint, until it is as close as possible to the consistency of water. Holding the canvas vertically, the paint is carefully poured from a bottle down the surface. Each canvas is then expertly tilted or rotated to direct the flow of paint. This is where the medium and subject begin to echo one another—as the layers of liquid solidify, they resemble flowstone and other forms that might occur in an ice cave. The resulting paintings present a unique visual vocabulary which unveils itself slowly, where the subject is camouflaged by the same material method used to reveal it.

For a list of available works, please contact the gallery at info@equinoxgallery.com or 604.736.2405

Neil Wedman, Ice Cave #2, 2023

Neil Wedman, Ice Cave #3, 2023

Neil Wedman, Ice Cave #4, 2023

Neil Wedman, Ice Cave #5, 2023

Neil Wedman
Spotlights

Spotlights is the culmination of work done over the summer of 2016 and the summer of 2017. Consistency is key in this series of ten: each piece is vertically oriented and measures 78 inches by 60 inches, with each composition seemingly a copy of the previous. The works are made through a process of extraction and dilution of the paint. Acrylic paint is mixed to a completely liquid consistency and poured down the surface of the canvas, causing the paint to behave in an atypical way where the individual components making up each colour separate from one another, creating subtle auras and stains as well as accidental blemishes and unanticipated inconsistencies.

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Neil Wedman, Unnumbered Flying Saucer Study #6, 2011