Exhibitions
WILL HUTNICK: A RETROSPECTIVE (OF SORTS)
Apothecary (UTC) / 744 McCallie Ave. November 17, 2016 - November 17, 2016
Will Hutnick
Will Hutnick
Nov 17th, 5pm - 7pm at Apothecary
In the artist's words:
"My work asks questions relating to impermanence and identity by conjuring up a space that lives in-between what is real, perceived and natural. I am interested in facilitating work to “occur” and setting up the parameters for shapes and forms to emerge. I think of painting as a process of whittling away information to uncover a hidden language, an undiscovered network of symbols and coordinates. I think of my work as a series of “Russian-nesting dolls” in which some shape, form or physical work is informed by, or physically created from, another fragment or piece of another work, and that new – or altered shape – informs another work or fragment, and so on. The work becomes literally and physically interconnected, in hopes of leaving the viewer with an altered sense of placement and perception. By creating multiples and variations of the same form, sometimes until the image actually dissipates, I am exploring how meaning and identity are assigned and constructed, and how malleable those so-called constants actually are. I’ve been thinking more and more lately about uncovering an in-between state that is neither here nor there, something that is filled with potential and is in a transitional state, or supposed transition. It’s shifting, it’s in flux, and I just happen to be in the exact particular moment to capture the experience and image. I think of this space an as “other” space between realities – physical, virtual, digital. I’m also questioning if there is a queerness embedded into the work and what that inherent queerness may or may not say in relation to one’s sense of self, location and space."
Will Hutnick is an artist and curator based in Wassaic, NY. He received his MFA from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY) and his BA from Providence College (Providence, RI). His work has been exhibited most recently at Providence College Galleries (Providence, solo), VICTORI+MO (Brooklyn), DEMO Project (Springfield, IL), SPRING/BREAK Art Show (New York, NY), The Java Project (Brooklyn, solo), Ground Floor Gallery (Brooklyn), Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia, PA), Circuit 12 Contemporary (Dallas, TX), Momenta Art (Brooklyn), TSA (Brooklyn) and The Center for Contemporary Art (Bedminster, NJ, solo). Hutnick has curated numerous exhibitions at Ortega y Gasset Projects, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Trestle Projects, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Loft 594 and LaunchPad (Brooklyn). His work has been featured in New American Paintings, Maake Magazine and Whitehot Magazine’s “Best Artists List for 2013”. Hutnick has been an artist in residence at Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT) 4heads on Governors Island (Governors Island, NY), and recently completed a year-long curatorial residency at Trestle Projects (Brooklyn). He is a member of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn, and is currently the Residency Director at The Wassaic Project.
