This final installation of John Wilcox’s work in the Wilcox Space grew out of an interest in the complexity of Wilcox’s techniques and his devotion to the craft of painting. The impetus for this installation began in 2014 at the Dallas Museum of Art when Laura Hartman and Mark Leonard began examining a Wilcox polyptych, […]
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relinquishing time: selected works of john wilcox, curated by david wilcox
This fifth installation in the Wilcox Space opening on November 4, 2016 focuses on selected works of John Wilcox that convey his attraction to and work with the tension between the part and the whole, the finite and the infinite, time and timelessness. Wilcox experiments in finding new ways to work with his medium, whether […]
john wilcox: diptychs and polyptychs, curated by sarah kozlowski and benjamin lima
This two-part installation explores John Wilcox’s engagement with the formal principles and expressive potential of the diptych and polyptych formats in work that spans the painter’s career and ranges across materials, techniques, and subject matter. The first in the two-part installation, opening on November 7, 2015, is framed by Wilcox’s earliest experiments with narrative diptychs […]
private words: selected works of john wilcox, curated by leigh arnold
The use of words holds a special place in the work of John Wilcox. Words served as symbols. They were catalysts. Plays on words and the arrangements of letter conveyed different layers of meaning. In the third installation in The Wilcox Space, Leigh Arnold curates a selection of works on paper and canvas in which […]
catalogued works, volume III – diptych and polyptych pieces
a selection of John Wilcox’s work
The first installation in The Wilcox Space, curated by Wilcox’s longtime friend and gallerist, Barry Whistler, includes a some of Wilcox’s more recent work. Some works on paper date from the later 1980’s when Wilcox was living in New York and experiencing the devastation of the AIDS epidemic in the art community. The canvases selected […]