
BY 2P
2015
BY 2P presents a commanding physical presence at 274 by 183 centimeters, its large-format scale demanding full bodily engagement before the viewer even begins to parse its surface. JPW3 has worked wax and ink transfer together on canvas in a process that resists conventional painterly readings, layering translucent encaustic-adjacent material over transferred imagery to produce a surface that hovers between opacity and revelation. The result is a work that seems to hold information beneath its skin, forms and marks caught in suspension as though fossilized within the medium itself. JPW3, working primarily out of Los Angeles, has developed a practice centered on material experimentation and the interrogation of image-making processes, and BY 2P sits comfortably among the more resolved works from this period of his output. The 2015 date places it within a particularly focused chapter of production, when his interest in the latent image, the trace, and the indexical mark was operating at full intensity. Wax as a carrier of embedded content carries obvious art historical resonance, but JPW3 pushes the technique toward something more conceptually urgent, treating the canvas less as a support and more as a kind of archive. For collectors, the combination of monumental scale, signed status, and institutional presentation through Galerie Nagel Draxler affirms the work's standing within the secondary critical conversation around post-medium practice. The absence of framing is appropriate here, as the raw canvas edge and material presence of the wax surface are integral to how the work occupies space. BY 2P rewards proximity and extended looking, its surfaces shifting with changes in light and viewing angle in ways that no reproduction can adequately capture.
- Medium
- Wax with ink transfer on canvas
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Galerie Nagel Draxler
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