Foyer Gallery is pleased to present Let the Good Times Roll, an exhibition of new works by Bruce Wilhelm, opening Friday, September 4th from 5:00–9:00 PM at 16 W Broad Street and on view through October 30th. There will be a soft opening on Thursday September 3rd.
Bruce Wilhelm’s work belongs to a generation of painters for whom the question is no longer whether painting is still possible but rather ‘what can painting become after its own history has been absorbed?’. Let the Good Times Roll pulls from the history of modernist abstraction, pop art, printmaking, conceptualism, and the mythology of the artist, all while refusing to remain confined to fixed categories. Quick decisions, repetition, crude processes, monumental jokes, art-historical references and the evidence of the studio become material. Let the Good Times Roll includes a 170 lb concrete penny, references to Jackson Pollock, automobiles and other fragments of American and European visual culture, a 128-inch long line-drawing and a series of small, gestural process paintings. Wilhem’s practice involves both serious investigation and playful experimentation in an attempt to discover what happens when intention, accident, history and humor are allowed to occupy the same surface.
Bruce Wilhelm earned his BFA in Painting and Printmaking at the Virginia Commonwealth University in 2004 and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2012. His work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions including at Mulherin Pollard in New York City, ADA gallery in Richmond, VA and COL gallery in San Francisco. He is a co-founder of Grizzly-Grizzly, an artist-run space in Philadelphia, PA. Wilhelm is represented by COL Gallery.
