Untitled Art Miami Beach
Featuring:
Bradley Wood & Ulla-Stina Wikander

December 3rd - 8th, 2024
Booth B26

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.  

Image captions: (left to right) Bradley Wood, Frankie & Friends, 2024. Oil on linen, 48 x 28 in. Ulla-Stina Wikander, Western Boots, 2020. Needlepoint embroidery, vintage object, 13 3/4 x 8 x 11 1/4 in.