Over the last several decades, artist Wes Lang has been honing his craft involving, amongst other things , a tireless, obsessive mining of a post-pop American landscape. Born in Chatham, New Jersey in 1972, many of the artist's influences are a function of a distinct autobiographical experience with certain exceptions; the Indigenous American as well as other totems of the American West, and painters and sculptors from middle of last century such as Twombly, Guston, Kline, Mitchell, and Bacon dovetailing on up to the more contemporary such as Basquiat, Kippenberger, and Mike Kelley. To date, Lang has made his mark primarily on canvas and paper -- though his practice extends to include cast bronze sculpture, collage, hotel stationary, fabric, glass and precious metals -- and is known for creating surfaces that sizzle; bombastic mélanges often brimming with elegantly rendered, still rough-around-the-edges imagery of grim reapers, Indian chiefs, fallen country music icons, sultry seductresses, long lost folk legends, dead authors, roses and other flora, birds, horses, all of which jockey for prominence within compositions sewn together and resolved by cryptic scrawls with a bittersweet vernacular resonate of Ram Dass and the Tao by way of the edge of the universe. In 2014, Lang made his institutional debut with "The Studio" @ aRoS Aarhus Museum of Art. His pieces are included in many notable international collections including MOMA and Murderme and is represented worldwide by Almine Rech. Lang currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Wes Lang
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Wes Lang, All My Tomorrows, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm
72 x 60 x 2 in -
Wes Lang, Blue Monday, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm
72 x 60 x 2 in -
Wes Lang, Resolution, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm
72 x 60 x 2 in -
Wes Lang, Sing Your Life, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm
72 x 60 x 2 in -
Wes Lang, Purple Dawn, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm
72 x 60 x 2 in -
Wes Lang, I'm Glad There is You, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm
72 x 84 x 2 in -
Wes Lang, First Moon, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 213.4 x 5.1 cm
72 x 84 x 2 in -
Wes Lang, You'll Endure Forever, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
152.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm
60 x 48 x 2 in -
Wes Lang, A Return To The Infinite, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
152.4 x 121.9 x 5.1 cm
60 x 48 x 2 in -
Wes Lang, Dreamworld, 2021
Acrylic on paper
50 in x 38 in
127 cm x 96.52 cm
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Wes Lang, Results, Results, Results..., 2021
Acrylic on canvas
Triptych
Each: 61 x 50.8 cm; 24 x 20 in -
Wes Lang, From This Darkness…, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 cm
72 x 60 in -
Wes Lang, We Did It!, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 cm
72 x 60 in -
Wes Lang, No. 2 In E Minor, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
152.4 x 121.9 cm
60 x 48 in -
Wes Lang, Two Suns For The Beginning Of Time, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 cm
72 x 60 in -
Wes Lang, Big Time Believer, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
152.4 x 121.9 cm
60 x 48 in -
Wes Lang, When You Are The Answer, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
22.9 x 30.5 cm
9 x 12 in -
Wes Lang, Pot Study, 2020
Conté crayon on paper
31.8 x 43.2 cm
12 1/2 x 17 in -
Wes Lang, My Mirage, 2020
Oil on canvas
22.9 x 30.5 cm
9 x 12 in -
Wes Lang, Turning Points, 2020
Colored pencil and india ink on paper
96.5 x 127 cm
38 x 50 in -
Wes Lang, A Model For All Under Heaven, 2018
Bronze
50.8 x 58.4 x 33 cm
20 x 23 x 13 in -
Wes Lang, In Living, 2019
Colored pencil on paper
55.9 x 83.8 cm
22 x 33 in -
Wes Lang, For the Good Times, 2020
Oil on paper
172.7 x 128.3 cm
68 x 50 1/2 in -
Wes Lang, Inherit Everything, 2019
India ink on paper
55.9 x 76.2 cm
22 x 30 in -
Wes Lang, Magic Dance, 2020
Oil, acrylic, india ink, colored pencil, charcoal and collage on paper
213.4 x 167.6 cm
84 x 66 in -
Wes Lang, Magic Dance 1, 2020
Oil, acrylic, india ink, colored pencil, charcoal and collage
213.4 x 167.6 cm
84 x 66 in -
Wes Lang, Munich, 2020
Oil on canvas
152.4 x 121.9 cm
60 x 48 in -
Wes Lang, Brings Good Things, 2020
Oil on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 cm
72 x 60 in -
Wes Lang, Yes, The River Knows, 2019
Acrylic and india ink on paper
96.5 x 127 cm
38 x 50 in -
Wes Lang, A Sort Of Madness Part 2, 2020
Oil and acrylic on canvas
152.4 x 121.9 cm
60 x 48 in -
Wes Lang, One Winter, 2018
Acrylic and oil stick on paper
96.5 x 127 cm
38 x 50 in -
Wes Lang, Grand Gestures, 2020
Oil on canvas
22.9 x 30.5 cm
9 x 12 in -
Wes Lang, A Sort Of Madness Part 1, 2020
Oil and acrylic on canvas
152.4 x 121.9 cm
60 x 48 in -
Wes Lang, Blind Faith, 2020
Oil on canvas
22.9 x 30.5 cm
9 x 12 in -
Wes Lang, To Tell The Truth, 2020
Oil on canvas
22.9 x 30.5 cm
9 x 12 in -
Wes Lang, Just Me And You, 2020
Oil on canvas
22.9 x 30.5 cm
9 x 12 in -
Wes Lang, The Sequence, 2020
Oil on canvas
213.4 x 274.3 cm
84 x 108 in -
Wes Lang, We Worship The Good, 2018
Oil on canvas
274.3 x 426.7 cm
108 x 168 in -
Wes Lang, Lake Of Gold in, 2020
Oil on canvas
274.3 x 243.8 cm
108 x 96 in -
Wes Lang, Glory Be, 2020
Oil and paper collage on canvas
1463 x 335.3 x 10.2 cm
576 x 132 x 4 in -
Wes Lang, Something Happened To Me Yesterday, 2020
Oil on canvas
274.3 x 243.8 cm
108 x 96 in -
Wes Lang, To Make Use Of What Is Not, 2020
Oil on canvas
121.9 x 152.4 cm
48 x 60 in -
Wes Lang, The Complete Whole, 2018
Acrylic on paper
182,9 x 274,3 cm
72 x 108 in