Will Hutnick, "Stand Cool and Composed Before a Million Universes"
2022
Acrylic, colored pencil, graphite, marker, sand and wax pastel on canvas
20”x16”
ARTIST STATEMENT
I create topographical relics that record and reinvent my physical and sensory surroundings. Through idiographic mark making, personal artifacts and architecture become the impetus for pattern and form. I implement various printmaking processes - through the use of paint rollers and black paint on raw canvas - to create marks that resemble fractals, glitches, Xerox prints and stop-motion animation. These marks distort linear and expected notions of time. With a nod to queer ecology, my paintings disrupt the perception of a binary worldview that eschews the inherent interconnection of sexuality, landscape and lived experience.
ARTIST BIO
Will Hutnick (b. 1985) is an artist based in Sharon, CT. He received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 2011 and his B.A. from Providence College in 2007. Hutnick is a 2021 Artist Fellow in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as a grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation in 2017 and 2023, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2016. Solo exhibitions include: Geary Contemporary (Millerton, NY), Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY), Pamela Salisbury Gallery (Hudson, NY), Elijah Wheat Showroom (Newburgh, NY), Standard Space (Sharon, CT) and Providence College Galleries (Providence, RI). Selected group exhibitions include: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz, NY), Hollis Taggart (Southport, CT), 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Heaven Gallery (Chicago, IL) and Collar Works (Troy, NY). Hutnick has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Interlude Artist Residency, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, Hewnoaks, Stove Works, and the Wassaic Project. He has curated numerous exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Trestle Projects and Pratt Institute. His work has been featured in The New York Times, New American Paintings, and Hyperallergic, among others. From 2015 - 2020, Hutnick was one of the Co-Directors of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change.
2022
Acrylic, colored pencil, graphite, marker, sand and wax pastel on canvas
20”x16”
ARTIST STATEMENT
I create topographical relics that record and reinvent my physical and sensory surroundings. Through idiographic mark making, personal artifacts and architecture become the impetus for pattern and form. I implement various printmaking processes - through the use of paint rollers and black paint on raw canvas - to create marks that resemble fractals, glitches, Xerox prints and stop-motion animation. These marks distort linear and expected notions of time. With a nod to queer ecology, my paintings disrupt the perception of a binary worldview that eschews the inherent interconnection of sexuality, landscape and lived experience.
ARTIST BIO
Will Hutnick (b. 1985) is an artist based in Sharon, CT. He received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 2011 and his B.A. from Providence College in 2007. Hutnick is a 2021 Artist Fellow in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as a grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation in 2017 and 2023, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2016. Solo exhibitions include: Geary Contemporary (Millerton, NY), Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY), Pamela Salisbury Gallery (Hudson, NY), Elijah Wheat Showroom (Newburgh, NY), Standard Space (Sharon, CT) and Providence College Galleries (Providence, RI). Selected group exhibitions include: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz, NY), Hollis Taggart (Southport, CT), 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Heaven Gallery (Chicago, IL) and Collar Works (Troy, NY). Hutnick has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Interlude Artist Residency, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, Hewnoaks, Stove Works, and the Wassaic Project. He has curated numerous exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Trestle Projects and Pratt Institute. His work has been featured in The New York Times, New American Paintings, and Hyperallergic, among others. From 2015 - 2020, Hutnick was one of the Co-Directors of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change.
2022
Acrylic, colored pencil, graphite, marker, sand and wax pastel on canvas
20”x16”
ARTIST STATEMENT
I create topographical relics that record and reinvent my physical and sensory surroundings. Through idiographic mark making, personal artifacts and architecture become the impetus for pattern and form. I implement various printmaking processes - through the use of paint rollers and black paint on raw canvas - to create marks that resemble fractals, glitches, Xerox prints and stop-motion animation. These marks distort linear and expected notions of time. With a nod to queer ecology, my paintings disrupt the perception of a binary worldview that eschews the inherent interconnection of sexuality, landscape and lived experience.
ARTIST BIO
Will Hutnick (b. 1985) is an artist based in Sharon, CT. He received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in 2011 and his B.A. from Providence College in 2007. Hutnick is a 2021 Artist Fellow in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as a grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation in 2017 and 2023, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2016. Solo exhibitions include: Geary Contemporary (Millerton, NY), Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY), Pamela Salisbury Gallery (Hudson, NY), Elijah Wheat Showroom (Newburgh, NY), Standard Space (Sharon, CT) and Providence College Galleries (Providence, RI). Selected group exhibitions include: Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art (New Paltz, NY), Hollis Taggart (Southport, CT), 1969 Gallery (New York, NY), Heaven Gallery (Chicago, IL) and Collar Works (Troy, NY). Hutnick has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Interlude Artist Residency, Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, Soaring Gardens Artists’ Retreat, Hewnoaks, Stove Works, and the Wassaic Project. He has curated numerous exhibitions at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Trestle Projects and Pratt Institute. His work has been featured in The New York Times, New American Paintings, and Hyperallergic, among others. From 2015 - 2020, Hutnick was one of the Co-Directors of Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run curatorial collective and exhibition space in Brooklyn. He is currently the Director of Artistic Programming at the Wassaic Project, a nonprofit organization that uses art and art education to foster positive social change.