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JPW3 — 4KC
JPW3 — 4KC
JPW3 — 4KC
JPW3 — 4KC
JPW3

4KC

2015

Measuring an imposing 274.3 by 182.9 centimeters, 4KC announces itself with the kind of physical authority that defines JPW3's practice. The work employs wax with ink transfer on canvas, a process in which the artist layers encaustic-adjacent material over transferred imagery, producing surfaces that simultaneously reveal and obscure. Depth here is not merely visual but tactile, the wax capturing light at varying thicknesses while the transferred ink beneath shifts between legibility and dissolution. The result is a painting that resists immediate reading, demanding sustained attention as the eye moves across its large expanse and registers the tension between the fixed record of the transfer and the fluid, preserving quality of the wax above it. JPW3 works at the intersection of photography, painting, and material investigation, and 4KC sits squarely within his most resolved body of work from the mid-2010s. The title carries the cool, coded brevity characteristic of the artist, deflecting easy narrative interpretation and keeping the focus on the object itself. Signed and dated on the overlap, the work carries a clean provenance and is offered directly through Phillips, lending institutional visibility to an acquisition that rewards both the collector drawn to process-driven abstraction and the one attentive to scale as a meaningful pictorial decision. At this size, 4KC functions architecturally within a collection, occupying space the way few works of its generation do.

Medium
Wax with ink transfer on canvas
Overall
Signed
Yes

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JPW3, 4KC, 2015

Measuring an imposing 274.3 by 182.9 centimeters, 4KC announces itself with the kind of physical authority that defines JPW3's practice. The work employs wax with ink transfer on canvas, a process in which the artist layers encaustic-adjacent material over transferred imagery, producing surfaces that simultaneously reveal and obscure. Depth here is not merely visual but tactile, the wax capturing light at varying thicknesses while the transferred ink beneath shifts between legibility and dissolution. The result is a painting that resists immediate reading, demanding sustained attention as the eye moves across its large expanse and registers the tension between the fixed record of the transfer and the fluid, preserving quality of the wax above it. JPW3 works at the intersection of photography, painting, and material investigation, and 4KC sits squarely within his most resolved body of work from the mid-2010s. The title carries the cool, coded brevity characteristic of the artist, deflecting easy narrative interpretation and keeping the focus on the object itself. Signed and dated on the overlap, the work carries a clean provenance and is offered directly through Phillips, lending institutional visibility to an acquisition that rewards both the collector drawn to process-driven abstraction and the one attentive to scale as a meaningful pictorial decision. At this size, 4KC functions architecturally within a collection, occupying space the way few works of its generation do.

Medium
Wax with ink transfer on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 274.3 x 182.9 cm
Year
2015
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Phillips

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