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Billy Childish — The Vines
Billy Childish

The Vines

A tangle of actual wire vines climbs and sprawls across the roughly painted wooden surface, blurring the boundary between sculptural object and painted image. Childish's characteristically raw, expressive brushwork renders the surrounding foliage in bold, unrefined strokes, while the protruding wire elements cast shadows that become part of the composition itself. The work embodies his outsider aesthetic, rejecting polish in favor of visceral, direct mark-making and material honesty.

Medium
wire, oil on wood

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Under the Influence

December 11, 2013

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Billy Childish, The Vines

A tangle of actual wire vines climbs and sprawls across the roughly painted wooden surface, blurring the boundary between sculptural object and painted image. Childish's characteristically raw, expressive brushwork renders the surrounding foliage in bold, unrefined strokes, while the protruding wire elements cast shadows that become part of the composition itself. The work embodies his outsider aesthetic, rejecting polish in favor of visceral, direct mark-making and material honesty.

Medium
wire, oil on wood
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Raw Expressionism, Gestural Mark-Making, Botanical Subject, Male Artist, Botanical, Mixed Media, Textured, British Artist, Wire And Oil On Wood, Outsider Art, Earthy Tones, Expressive, Dark Tones, Cult Figure, Wooden Panel, Vines, Contemporary Art, Wire And Oil, Primitive Style, British, Abstract, Contemporary

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