Untitled Art Miami Beach 2024

Booth B26, December 3 - 8, 2024 
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  • Jane Lombard Gallery is pleased to participate in the 2024 edition of Untitled Art, Miami Beach with a presentation of...

    Jane Lombard Gallery is pleased to participate in the 2024 edition of Untitled Art, Miami Beach with a presentation of works by Bradley Wood and Ulla-Stina Wikander. Drawing from new and existing work, this presentation relishes in the decorative aesthetics of lush quotidian spaces, imbuing themes of connectivity and desire. 

    Using obsolete objects and vintage needlework, Ulla-Stina Wikander transforms the ordinary into the unexpected. Rotary phones, typewriters, kitchen appliances, and other household objects are covered in embroideries sourced from antique markets. Through her meticulous work of cutting and stitching, the objects become recast and renewed – cloaked in excerpts of pastoral landscapes and quiet domestic scenes. Her colorful and tactile works elevate the domestic while simultaneously paying homage to the anonymous hands that crafted the original fabrics. Wikander's work is humorous, yet societally critical, looking at the forgotten as a means to investigate tenets of feminism, domesticity, and transmutation. 

    Pairing colorful swaths of oil paint with bold interiors and slender figures, Bradley Wood draws on an amalgamation of memories, dreams, and encounters, to depict romanticized playgrounds of affluence. Bathed in bright, scintillating hues, Wood's figures are enveloped in the splendor of chandeliers, lavish furniture, and extravagant artwork. Their elongated limbs accentuate their leisure while their plain facial expressions suggest an indifference to the grandeur around them that peppers their environment and engulfs them in its utmost opulence. Exploring themes of seduction, excess, and yearning, Bradley Wood's paintings offer a voyeuristic peek into the uncomplicated lifestyles of quiet luxury.

    Collectively, the works look to bygone eras staging unexpected interactions that are at once whimsical and seductive. 

    About Bradley Wood 

    Bradley Wood (b. 1970, Regina, Saskatchewan) lives  in Larchmont, New York, and works in Port Chester, New York. Wood has a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. He also studied Art and Experimental Film at CalArts, and Art and Design at Art Center Europe, Montreux, Switzerland. In 2017, he received the Moth Art Prize and residency in Ireland. He has also been selected as an artist resident at ChaNorth in Pine Plains, NY and at the Woolworth building in NYC through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. 

    Wood’s work has been exhibited extensively in Canada, the United States, and Europe. He was featured in the acclaimed Human Condition group exhibition that took over an abandoned Los Angeles hospital and included in the Exit Art Biennial II: Traffic. He was also awarded a spot in the AIM (Artists in the Marketplace) program at the Bronx Museum.

    About Ulla-Stina Wikander

    Ulla-Stina Wikander (b. 1957, Gothenburg, Sweden) is known for her transformation of vintage appliances covered in needlepoint embroidery. Through the meticulous process of reinventing household objects, Wikander elevates the everyday into the culturally significant. With a career spanning several decades, her work evokes a sense of nostalgia for a bygone era.

    Wikander is based in both Kullavik and Stockholm, Sweden. She studied at Hovedskous Målarskola in Gothenburg, The School of Design and Crafts at the University of Gothenburg, and KV Konstskola Gothenburg. Her work has been exhibited extensively, both in Sweden and internationally. Recent exhibitions have been held at Invisible Dog Art Center, New York; Paradigm Gallery + Studio, Philadelphia; Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam; M Contemporary, Sydney; and Design Museum Holon, Tel Aviv. Wikander's work is included in the collections of Halmstad Konstmuseum, Sweden; Celebrity Cruises; and Akzo Nobel Collection, Amsterdam; among others.  

  • Installation view of Jane Lombard Gallery, Booth 26, at Untitled Art, Miami Beach. Photo credit: Adam Reich.

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