Works

Installation shot	Q-cell, glass, steel, spray paint, acrylic rods, brass 40 x 26 x 21 in.	Cast aluminum, Q-cell, perspex, mirrored blown glass, brass, spray paint, wood, steel bar 91 1/2 x 30 x 61 in.
Acrylic, steel, perspex, brass, resin, antenna 46 x 30 x 8 in.	Installation shot	Q-cell, glass, steel, spray paint, acrylic rods, brass 66 x 57 1/2 x 35 3/4 in.
Perspex, two pence pieces, plastic, chrome, fabric 63 1/2 x 49 1/2 x 17 in.	Green tinted mirrors on American White Ash wood and metal brackets 71 x 93 1/4 in.

Press Release

Bortolami Dayan is pleased to present Gary Webb’s first solo exhibition in New York. By combining a variety of natural and industrial materials with color, sound, movement and light, Gary Webb creates unique sculptural assemblages that reference a multitude of sources and are a sensory experience. The artist employs vocabulary from Modernist sculpture together with Pop culture elements to create hybridized works that are at the same time abstract and representational. Webb uses processed materials such as Perspex, neon, cut-out metal, fabric and rubber as well as organic materials such as wood, sand, marble and rock crystal. In addition the artist sometimes incorporates a sound element to the work like a song from a movie or a phrase that has some personal relevance.

While the works are very much a product of the 21st century and the future, whereby the natural is made artificial and the processed more naturalistic, the works also have a retro quality by referencing 20th century cars, art, music and design. Brancusi, Phillip King, Richard Artschwager and Donald Judd come to mind as do elements from automobiles, toys, furniture, and everyday household objects. Webb juxtaposes manufactured and natural objects in unexpected configurations to create complex constructions that often defy definition and are distinctly his own.

Gary Webb was born in Hampshire in 1973. He currently lives and works in London. Recent solo exhibitions include: British Art Show, 6, BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2005, and It’s All An Illusion. A Sculpture Project, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, 2004. Group exhibitions include: The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino, 2003, Biennale d’Art Contemporian de Lyon, 2003, and Casino 2001, SMAK, Ghent.

For more information please contact Elizabeth Schwartz at 212-727-2050 or elizabeth@bortolamidayan.com.