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Merrill Wagner

Merrill Wagner

Selected Works

Mar 4 - Mar 27
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We are pleased to welcome celebrated artist Merrill Wagner back to Traver Gallery for a concise exhibition of paintings. An important figure in abstract and minimalist art, Wagner works in a wide range of media, including drawing, painting, time-based projects, book works, and sculptural interventions. This exhibition features a curated selection of steel, slate, and plexiglass works created over four decades, highlighting the breadth of Wagner’s explorations in abstraction and materiality.

 

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WILDFLOWER | 24496
WILDFLOWER | 24496, 2006
rust preventive paint on steel
61"h x 74.5"w
pricing available upon request
DANDELION SEEDS | 32561
DANDELION SEEDS | 32561, 2010
rust preventive paint on steel
65.5"h x 35.5"w
pricing available upon request
AHA! | 32560
AHA! | 32560, 2004
rust preventive paint on steel
22.5"h x 28.5"w
pricing available upon request
UNTITLED | 32562
UNTITLED | 32562, 1991
conte crayon on slate
11.5 "h x 10.5"w
pricing available upon request
UNTITLED (PART 1) | 32563
UNTITLED (PART 1) | 32563, 1980
oil pastel on slate
11.5 "h x 11.5"w
pricing available upon request
UNTITLED, B | 32564
UNTITLED, B | 32564, 1980
oil pastel and tape on plexiglass
11.75 "h x 11.75"w
pricing available upon request
UNTITLED | 32565
UNTITLED | 32565, 1995
oil on marble
8.5"h x 8.5"w
pricing available upon request
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  • WILDFLOWER | 24496, 2006
    rust preventive paint on steel
    61"h x 74.5"w
    pricing available upon request
  • DANDELION SEEDS | 32561, 2010
    rust preventive paint on steel
    65.5"h x 35.5"w
    pricing available upon request
  • AHA! | 32560, 2004
    rust preventive paint on steel
    22.5"h x 28.5"w
    pricing available upon request
  • UNTITLED | 32562, 1991
    conte crayon on slate
    11.5 "h x 10.5"w
    pricing available upon request
  • UNTITLED (PART 1) | 32563, 1980
    oil pastel on slate
    11.5 "h x 11.5"w
    pricing available upon request
  • UNTITLED, B | 32564, 1980
    oil pastel and tape on plexiglass
    11.75 "h x 11.75"w
    pricing available upon request
  • UNTITLED | 32565, 1995
    oil on marble
    8.5"h x 8.5"w
    pricing available upon request
  • About
    Merrill Wagner

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Wagner works in a wide range of media, including drawing, painting, time-based projects, book works and sculptural interventions. Her work aligns itself with both the principles of Minimalism, and the ethics of an alchemist. She manipulates materials to make works that are about the passing of time and material transformation.

A big departure from her oil on canvas works of the 60’s, the tape works from the 70’s showcase Wagner’s unique process of using tape (cloth, masking, Gaffer’s, Permacel) to transfer oil pastel pigments onto plexiglass. Tiffany Bell explains that “having used tape as an incidental tool in her painting, she became fascinated with it as something to mark on. Her preoccupation with tape led to a consideration of process and the role of chance in the creative procedure. She started applying bands of tape to paper (…) and marking the resulting surfaces all over with chalk. A second layer of tape was then layered on top, removed, and affixed to Plexiglas. Seen from the opposite side, traces of the original drawing were thus incorporated into a new context.”

Wagner is an artist indicative of her time and place. Robert Storr summarizes, “Wagner, materialist, formalist, empiricist, and poet of the given and the accidental as well of the systematically altered is, in this every respect, an all-American artist to the core.”

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