PAUL VILLINSKI
7 JUNE — 10 JULY 2016
PAUL VILLINSKI
ARTIST RECEPTION Tuesday June 7th 6 to 8pm
TAYLOE PIGGOTT GALLERY 62 SOUTH GLENWOOD STREET JACKSON HOLE WYOMING TEL 307 733 0555 TAYLOEPIGGOTTGALLERY.COM
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AMBITIONS
BOUNDARIES
INTRIGUE
IMAGINE a life-size horse fully covered in white butterflies ‌
PEGASUS (work in progress) Steel, Wood, Soot, Found Aluminum Cans, Flashe 100 x 28 x 80 inches $80,000 4
MARFA Found Wood Objects, Found Aluminum Cans, Soot, Wire 120 x 30 x 84 inches $50,000 6
IMAGINE Found Aluminum Cans, Palladium, Wire 128 x 39 x 7 inches $45,000 8
RADIAN (work in progress) Found Aluminum Cans, Dobro, Palladium, Wire 108 x 72 x 10 inches $35,000 10
BURST Vinyl LP Records, Wire Dimensions Variable $75,000 12
CONJURE Found Aluminum Cans, Antique Frame, Wire, Flashe 50 x 39 x 11 inches $24,000 14
LEGACY Found Aluminum Cans, Antique Frame, Wire, Gold Leaf 21 x 23 x 7 inches $20,000
BREATH Found Aluminum Cans, Antique Frame, Wire, Flashe 39 x 36 x 11 inches $22,000 16
LOCUS Found Aluminum Cans, Antique Frame, Wire, Soot 30 x 26 x 7 inches $20,000
VECTOR Wall Installation Found Aluminum Cans, Wire, Flashe 84 x 60 inches $15,000 18
COMPASS Wall Installation Found Aluminum Cans, Soot, Wire 48 x 48 inches $15,000 20
MISTRAL Wall Installation Found Aluminum Cans, Gold Leaf, Wire 50 x 100 inches $15,000 22
PAUL VILLINSKI “I try to practice a “simple alchemy”, attempting to give these cast-off, “worthless” objects surprising new identities, to infuse their stories with new layers of meaning. The beauty that interests me most comes through the struggle to bring things from a place of loss… into a new life – to insist on the possibility of transformation.” In life and art, Paul Villinski explores flight. As a glider pilot, he sails the open sky. As an artist, he coaxes clouds of aluminum butterflies into a lyrical orbit. Well attuned to environmental issues, Villinski repurposes discarded materials into art objects: beer and soda cans; vinyl records; musical instruments; shipping pallets. He painstakingly and lovingly guides these mundane materials into flight. For this exhibition, in terms of scale and ambition, Villinski selected recent works that push beyond what has been previously installed at the Tayloe Piggott Gallery. Born in York, Maine in 1960, and educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, followed by the Massachusetts College of Art and the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, he then moved to New York City in the early 1980’s. Villinski is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and has been an artist-in-residence at many prestigious institutions including Wyoming’s Ucross Foundation. His works hang in both private and public collections including The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; The Museum of Arts and Design, New York; Miami International Airport, Florida; in addition he recently completed a major commissioned piece for the New York City Percent for Art Program, titled, “SkyCycles”. Villinski currently lives with his partner, painter Amy Park, and their son in a studio in Long Island City.
THIS CATALOGUE COMPLIMENTS THE EXHIBITION AT TAYLOE PIGGOTT GALLERY FEATURING PAUL VILLINSKI – BEYOND © TAYLOE PIGGOTT GALLERY / PAUL VILLINSKI PHOTOGRAPHY OF ARTIST BY CRAIG WARGA Back Cover: MEMO SET Wall Installation, Found Aluminum Cans, Wire, Flashe $3,500
62 SOUTH GLENWOOD STREET JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING TEL 307 733 0555 TAYLOEPIGGOTTGALLERY.COM