Paul Wackers
Born 1978 in New Haven, Connecticut, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
The New York based artist is first of all concerned with figurative painting, which he tends to slightly abstract. Pauls pictures are engaged in non-places, vegetable landscapes with bookshelves and window ledges, offering an insight in a parallel reality. Deserted spaces reflect an inner perception and remind the beholder of the still-life’s by the well-known Dutch classics e.g. Willem van Aelst.
The regular order of the objects seems to be maintained by the image. Cans, candleholder and empty vases fill up the interior. But at a second glance, straight and twisty lines disturb the familiar impression. Formally, the geometrical aspects of the composition subsist side by side to the organic elements. The traces of individual interpretation become visible on the plane canvas and on the wooden panel.
By this means, the obscure inner impressions melt into the existing phenomena.
The paintings of American artist Paul Wackers are intimate; an invitation to meditate. His works are meticulous, complex and almost reinterprets the pictorial repertoire of art history as a whole. Impressionist, minimalist, expressionist, trompe l’oeil or cartoonlike styles often combine in a single, joyous, post-modern body of work.
The New York based artist is first of all concerned with figurative painting, which he tends to slightly abstract. Pauls pictures are engaged in non-places, vegetable landscapes with bookshelves and window ledges, offering an insight in a parallel reality. Deserted spaces reflect an inner perception and remind the beholder of the still-life’s by the well-known Dutch classics e.g. Willem van Aelst.
The regular order of the objects seems to be maintained by the image. Cans, candleholder and empty vases fill up the interior. But at a second glance, straight and twisty lines disturb the familiar impression. Formally, the geometrical aspects of the composition subsist side by side to the organic elements. The traces of individual interpretation become visible on the plane canvas and on the wooden panel.
By this means, the obscure inner impressions melt into the existing phenomena.
The paintings of American artist Paul Wackers are intimate; an invitation to meditate. His works are meticulous, complex and almost reinterprets the pictorial repertoire of art history as a whole. Impressionist, minimalist, expressionist, trompe l’oeil or cartoonlike styles often combine in a single, joyous, post-modern body of work.
