Henry Wexler: After Lunch

Henry Wexler’s practice centres around everyday life, absurdity, the mundane, humour, and constant consideration of the flux between life and death. Wexler’s work plays with and somewhat mocks the ideals of art and the artist. The romantic notion of the artist slaving over a painting is not apparent here. Wexler works frantically, on dozens of pieces at a time. Using a heat gun helps to speed up the build of layers of whatever media is at hand. In Wexler’s words, it is “Cartoonish, slack. Shitty really, but hopefully uplifting.”