Will Boone

 The Ogre, 2017 

 Generating content from an unlikely array of sources—including music
 subcultures and the visual vernaculars of cattle ranches and
 barrooms—Will Boone (b. 1982, Houston) makes works whose graphic
 power is matched by their palpable physicality. His technical processes
 are informed in equal measure by the DIY ethos of punk and the
 precision of industrial manufacturing, and give rise to paintings,
 sculptures, and immersive installations. Boone pays particular attention
 to forms that emerge from social contexts with no clear association to
 art historical narratives. Taken as a whole, his work serves as a
 repository for archetypal, if fragmentary, expressions of contemporary
 life. And despite the ephemeral nature of many of his sources, Boone’s
 work retains a formal timelessness and clarity that connect it to a wide
 range of art historical traditions.

 Will Boone has been the subject of solo exhibitions at David
 Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Karma, New York (2022);
 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2019); and Rubell Family
 Collection, Miami (2014). A major installation was featured in Desert X
 2017, Coachella Valley, California (2017). Notable group shows include
 Looking Back / The 14th White Columns Annual– Selected by Randy
 Kennedy, White Columns, New York (2024); Zombies: Pay Attention!,
 Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2019); White Trash, Luhring Augustine
 Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York (2017); Prototypology, Gagosian, Rome
 (2016); Fétiche, Venus Over Manhattan, New York (2016); In Different
 Ways, Almine Rech, London (2016); and Love For Three Oranges,
 Gladstone Gallery, Brussels (2015). Boone lives and works in Houston
 and Comal County, Texas

Acrylic, enamel, resin and nylon flag on canvas
256,2 x 191,1 x 5,1 cm