15 March 2026
Discovered Joel Wyllie's wonderful work today. Lingers in a fresh, fertile, ungraspable land in a way that reminds me of the drawings of Trisha Donnelly and Jay DeFeo. Sparing, intentional, gentle use of color only where necessary, which elevates its potency. A good reminder. Curious about where his recent forms (thinking mostly of the drawings from his 2025 show Aerial the Projectionist at Foreign & Domestic) accumulate from—I remember seeing a photo of DeFeo's studio with a ballet slipper draped over a hanger bar. There's an interview he did around that show where he articulates something I've felt myself quite a bit recently in terms of seeing images while in motion: “...I have spent a lot of time driving since I moved to Suffolk five years ago, and have become increasingly interested in the branding on trucks and lorries. I love some of the minimal designs, the typography, the flat bold colors and the riveted surfaces. I saw a ‘Europa Logistics’ lorry recently driving down to London—its logo was a beautifully simple portrait of a woman in the wind, just red and white, painted huge on the side. It’s also the nature in which they’re usually seen—fleeting and at multiple angles. This interest has coincided with what feels like a simplifying of the forms in my work...”