Shulamit Nazarian is pleased to present Fever Pitch, a series of new paintings by Los Angeles-based Wendell Gladstone. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Over the past decade, Gladstone has produced figurative paintings that evoke dream-like spaces, free from the logic that typically governs traditional representation. He uses allegory and metaphor to examine a wide swath of cultural references—from art history to contemporary politics and personal experience—and allows his subconscious to guide the narratives.
The new paintings in Fever Pitch continue the artist’s interest in surreal states. Each piece carefully balances figuration and abstraction, as if stuck between reality and a feverish hallucination, so that the scenes feel both familiar and strange. The nonlinear spaces and bright, acidic colors portray ominous environments in which the characters dance, march, sleep, and generally find themselves caught in transitional circumstances.
