Patrick Wilson Artists MILES McENERY GALLERY

The ethereal abstract canvases of Patrick Wilson are derived from the urban west coast landscape. Each minimal scene is stripped down to its essence: cropped geometric fields of luminously complex color, which are layered on the surface in countless thin, almost transparent, coats.. For abstract painter Patrick Wilson, aesthetic beauty and visual pleasure are primary concerns. Using drywall tools, paint rollers, and masking tape, Wilson layers lines, squares, and rectangles in meticulously balanced compositions that, with the use of vivid color, evoke a palpable sense of light. Despite Wilson's assiduous process, he also works intuitively, responding to his compositions.

Patrick Wilson's paintings—a number of which are now on view at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe in New York—benefit from a slow, prolonged, and introspective viewing.. As a perceptualist painter, Patrick Wilson creates hard-edge paintings that reflect seductive improvisations on radiant color and meticulous structure. In lineage with John McLaughlin, Fred Hammersley, and Karl Benjamin, he incorporates a fascination with the history of California hard-edge painting, light and space, and fetish finish into intensely colorful paintings of varying planes and.