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. A great 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, Bacon dove-tailing 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, motorcycles, 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.
Wes Lang
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Paris
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October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris

October 17 — November 14, 2020 • Paris
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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, Something Happened To Me Yesterday, 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, We Worship The Good, 2018
Oil on canvas
274.3 x 426.7 cm
108 x 168 in -
Wes Lang, The Sequence, 2020
Oil on canvas
213.4 x 274.3 cm
84 x 108 in -
Wes Lang, Lake Of Gold in, 2020
Oil on canvas
274.3 x 243.8 cm
108 x 96 in -
Wes Lang, Pot Study, 2020
Conté crayon on paper
31.8 x 43.2 cm
12 1/2 x 17 in -
Wes Lang, Brings Good Things, 2020
Oil on canvas
182.9 x 152.4 cm
72 x 60 in -
Wes Lang, Munich, 2020
Oil on canvas
152.4 x 121.9 cm
60 x 48 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, One Winter, 2018
Acrylic and oil stick 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, 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, Grand Gestures, 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, To Tell The Truth, 2020
Oil on canvas
22.9 x 30.5 cm
9 x 12 in -
Wes Lang, My Mirage, 2020
Oil on canvas
22.9 x 30.5 cm
9 x 12 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, Turning Points, 2020
Colored pencil and india ink on paper
96.5 x 127 cm
38 x 50 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, In Living, 2019
Colored pencil on paper
55.9 x 83.8 cm
22 x 33 in -
Wes Lang, Inherit Everything, 2019
India ink on paper
55.9 x 76.2 cm
22 x 30 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, Magic Dance, 2020
Oil, acrylic, india ink, colored pencil, charcoal and collage on paper
213.4 x 167.6 cm
84 x 66 in
Press release
Selected press
- Keith Estiler, 'Wes Lang Releases”For the Good Times” Print Edition with Almine Rech', Hyperbeast, May 2020 — 203.4 kB
- Alison Luthi ‘Wes Lang’, Issue Magazine , Autumn 2019 — 143.9 kB
- Keith Estiler, 'Wes Lang is "Taking off for Other Dimensions" in New Copenhagen Exhibition', Hyperbeast, October 2019 — 257.5 kB
- Zach Baron ‘Meet Wes Lang: Kanye Collaborator, Taste God, and World’s Most Badass Artist’, GQ Style, August 2016 — 1.6 MB
- 'See Wes Lang's New Paintings from a Just-Opened Show in Copenhagen', GQ Magazine, August 2016 — 6.2 MB
- Zahra Jamshed, 'Wes Lang "The Studio" @ ARoS Museum, Hyperbeast, March 2014 — 324.6 kB
- Arthur Bray, 'Wes Lang "The Studio" Exhibition @ ARoS Museum Preview', Hyperbeast, March 2014 — 212.0 kB
- Susan Cheng, Vanessa Castro ‘10 Things To Know About Wes Lang, the Artist Who Designed Kanye West’s Yeezus Tour Merch’, Complex, October 2013 — 549.4 kB
- Susan Cheng, Cedar Pasori, Leigh Silver ‘The Most Important Artists of 2013’, Complex, December 2013 — 423.4 kB
- Juliana Balestin, 'Interview with Wes Lang', Purple Magazine, 2011 — 148.5 kB
- Luis Ruano, 'Wes Lang "Sittin' on a Rainbow" Exhibition @Chateau Marmont Recap, Hyperbeast, June 2011 — 1.3 MB
- David Coggins, ‘Wes Lang’, Interview Magazine, November 2008 — 342.4 kB