Will Boone, Underground Monument, 2016, bondo, plastic model, wood, cardboard, acrylic paint, and gap filler foam on wood panel, 18 × 24 × 7 inches; 45.7 × 61 × 17.8 cm
Will Boone Artist Talk
at the Nasher Sculpture Center
August 27, 2022 at 1:30 pm
2001 Flora Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
Will Boone draws inspiration from a breadth of cultural and subcultural sources. These include movies, music, industrial manufacturing, conspiracy theories, and the iconographies of Houston and South Texas. Since his early days designing concert posters and T-shirts for rock bands, Boone has both reflected and subverted the tropes of DIY and lo-fi in his work. His fascination with horror movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), as well as the rapid, low-budget quality of their production, can be felt across his multimedia work. Boone’s sculptures and paintings, which often resemble set pieces and cinematic tableaus, are an exercise in nostalgia, highlighting the mythologies of American culture.
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Will Boone, Trespasser, 2021, enamel, acrylic, vinyl , resin, and poster on canvas,
48 × 30 inches; 121.9 × 76.2 cm
Printed Matter Benefit Auction
June 1-15, 2021, closing at 12pm EDT
Printed Matter + Artsy are thrilled to present Printed Matter’s Spring Benefit Auction featuring more than seventy artworks from contemporary artists in support of the organization’s work on behalf of artists’ books and publishing.
The proceeds from this auction will provide vital support for Printed Matter, the world’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to the distribution, understanding and appreciation of artists’ books and related publications. Founded in 1976, Printed Matter represents over 12,000 titles by some 6000 artists from across the globe, and provides a broad range of free programs and services to artists and the public, including events and exhibitions, Art Book Fairs, and a broad distribution platform through its two nonprofit bookstores and its website printedmatter.org, one of the most extensive bibliographic databases for artists’ publications in the world.
Funds raised in this benefit auction will play a critical role in Printed Matter’s rebound from lost revenue due to the Covid pandemic, and will help ensure that Printed Matter will continue to thrive into the future.
During the pandemic, Printed Matter has worked hard to support artists while connecting artists’ books and audiences in new ways, from its first-ever Virtual Art Book Fair to an ongoing calendar of online events addressing a broad range of themes in artists’ publishing. In these precarious and challenging times the importance of the work we do has become even more clear. Artists’ books bring people together and connect us — they open spaces for people to experiment, collaborate, explore, discover, and learn, and we need them more than ever.
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Grave, 2019, bronze and enamel, 90 × 36 × 48 inches; 228.6 × 92.4 × 121.9 cm
Will Boone at Frieze Projects
Frieze Los Angeles 2020
Paramount Pictures Studios Back Lot
5515 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038
February 14-16, 2020
Frieze.com
Saturday, February 15: 11am–7pm
Sunday, February 16: 11am–6pm
Will Boone (b. 1982, Houston; lives in Los Angeles) creates paintings, sculptures and installations that draw inspiration from diverse references, including forms of pop, vernacular, and industrial culture, lore and history, and subcultural aesthetics. Boone’s The Three Fates, P-22, and Grave, reimagine figures from vintage hobby kits popular in the 1960s as life-sized, stand-alone sculptures. In these works he isolates menacing witches around a cauldron, a cougar ready to pounce, and a gravestone from a monster set, reconfiguring classic Americana toys to create new narratives and associations. His works foreground materiality, transforming the plastic manufacturing techniques of the post-war era figurines by upscaling them to cast bronze, finished with a loose enamel painting technique reminiscent of the hobbyist’s brush. Frieze Projects 2020 is co-curated by Rita Gonzalez (Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art, LACMA) and Pilar Tompkins Rivas (Director, Vincent Price Art Museum).
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"Family Tree" 2019, resin, acrylic, enamel, plywood, paper, and photographs on canvas, 75 × 75 inches; 190.5 × 190.5 cm
Catalogue Release and Signing with Will Boone
Thursday, January 16, 5:30pm – 6:15pm
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
5216 Montrose Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77006
info@camh.org
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is hosting a catalogue signing of the newly-released publication that accompanies the exhibition Will Boone: The Highway Hex. Catalogues will be available in the Museum Shop, and the artist will be present to sign and personalize your copy.
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Will Boone: The Highway Hex
November 9, 2019–February 16, 2020
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
5216 Montrose Boulevard
Houston, Texas 77006
camh.org
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Will Boone, Frankie,
2018, acrylic, enamel, plastic and wood,
5 3⁄4 × 6 × 1 1⁄2 inches; 14.6 × 15.2 × 3.8 cm
Will Boone at Object & Thing
May 3–May 5, 2019
99 Scott Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237
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Installation view, Zombies: Pay Attention!, 2018, Aspen Art Museum. Photo: Tony Prikryl
Will Boone in Zombies: Pay Attention!
Curated by Heidi Zuckerman
December 21, 2018 — May 5, 2019
Aspen Art Museum
637 E Hyman Ave
Aspen, CO 81611
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Monument, 2017, prefabricated steel bunker, bronze and enamel, 120 × 120 × 360 inches; 304.8 × 304.8 × 914.4 cm, 2017,Desert X, Coachella Valley, California, installation view
Desert X 2017
February 25 – April 30
Coachella Valley, CA
Curated by Desert X Artistic Director Neville Wakefield.
The Coachella Valley and its desert landscape became the canvas for a curated exhibition of site-specific work by established and emerging artists, whose projects amplified and articulated global and local issues that ranged from climate change to starry skies, from tribal culture and immigration to tourism, gaming, and golf. The art works, in various indoor and outdoor locations, were available free and offered visitors a way to see the valley and reflect on serious and playful issues through the lens of the participating artists’ creativity and work.
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