Brent Wadden sympathetic resonance Past Nov 22, 2018 – Jan 10, 2019 London Pace Gallery is delighted to present sympathetic resonance, an exhibition of new work by Canadian artist Brent Wadden. Exhibition DetailsBrent Waddensympathetic resonanceNov 22 – Jan 10, 2019 Gallery6 Burlington GardensLondonTues – Sat, 10 AM – 6 PM Connect#BrentWadden@_bbww_@pacegallery Brent Wadden, Untitled, 2018, handwoven fibers, wool, cotton and acrylic on canvas, 232 cm × 232 cm × 4 cm (91-5/16" × 91-5/16" × 1-9/16") © Brent Wadden Working on backstrap and floor looms, Wadden creates his large-scale work by weaving linear and abstract forms that he then stretches over raw canvas. Influenced by folk and Bauhaus textiles, the language and techniques of women quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, as well as painting movements such as Minimalism, Wadden’s pieces balance full and empty spaces, throwing the distinction between high and low into flux and using technical mistakes to progress. His paintings complicate hierarchies of media and disciplines, surfaces and textures with his own woven arrangements.“Brent Wadden is resolutely an abstract painter. But then everything we view by him contradicts this first impression or in some way complicates our understanding of what it is we’re looking at. We apprehend the made qualities of the work itself; we recognize its materiality; we delight in its appearance. And yet Wadden investigates the potentials of these material and sensorial facts imbuing them with a contemporary relevance that stretches far beyond well-worn and overly familiar discussions.” Nigel Prince, Executive Director of the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Brent Wadden, Untitled (detail), 2018, handwoven fibers, wool, cotton and acrylic on canvas, 232 cm × 232 cm × 4 cm (91-5/16" × 91-5/16" × 1-9/16") © Brent Wadden The new compositions reveal an intricate symmetry of arrangements, rare textures and interplay between materials such as acrylic, left-over cotton and wool. They are the result of a continued technical and compositional experimentation with weaving stripes and the inherent idea of infinity that they address. Focusing on a consistent colour scheme which goes through the entire body of work, Wadden’s concern with weave reveals the depth of Abstract Expressionism’s influence on his practice, recognizing canvas not only as a precious support surface but one that has tactile qualities and complex intelligence.The title of the exhibition refers to external harmonic audio vibrations that can create other sounds and hereby have secondary meanings. By extension, the term can also deal with human energy, a double meaning which was of specific interest to Wadden for these new works. The new compositions reveal an intricate symmetry of arrangements, rare textures and interplay between materials such as acrylic, left-over cotton and wool. They are the result of a continued technical and compositional experimentation with weaving stripes and the inherent idea of infinity that they address. Focusing on a consistent colour scheme which goes through the entire body of work, Wadden’s concern with weave reveals the depth of Abstract Expressionism’s influence on his practice, recognizing canvas not only as a precious support surface but one that has tactile qualities and complex intelligence.The title of the exhibition refers to external harmonic audio vibrations that can create other sounds and hereby have secondary meanings. By extension, the term can also deal with human energy, a double meaning which was of specific interest to Wadden for these new works. Read More Brent Wadden, Untitled, 2018, handwoven fibers, wool, cotton and acrylic on canvas, 157 cm × 372 cm × 4 cm (61-13/16" × 12' 2-7/16" × 1-9/16") © Brent Wadden Brent WaddenBrent Wadden produces abstract woven works that bring together traditions of painting, design, craft, and folk art. Mounting his handwoven textiles on canvas, Wadden complicates notions of medium by transposing craft techniques into the realm of painting. Through warp and weft, Wadden’s practice embraces the variations and glitches that emerge through a process of repetition, revealing subtle disruptions in the accumulation of line, color, and form.Learn More