Known for creating original illustrations for Kanye West’s Yeezus Tour back in 2013, Los Angeles-based artist Wes Lang is currently being showcased at Almine Rech. The collection of paintings, illustrations, and a sculpture is on display until November 14.
The exhibition under the artist’s title delivers new takes on the artist’s signature motifs, such as skeletons in headdresses riding horses, grim reapers holding red roses, Playboy bunnies, and other ephemera culled from the post-pop American landscape, while referencing compositional elements from his favorite artists including Cy Twombly, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Kippenberger, and Mike Kelley.
Take a look at the select works below and head to Almine Rech’s website for more information.
“Over the last several decades, artist Wes Lang has been honing his craft involving, amongst other things, tireless, obsessive mining of a post-pop American landscape. A great many of the artist’s influences are a function of a distinct autobiographical experience with certain exceptions; the indigenous American as well as other totems of the American West,” said the gallery in a statement.