Journey to Wesleyworld with our digital catalogue accompanying an exhibition of more than 30 artworks by John Wesley, presented at Pace Gallery in New York. Read More When it comes to feeling, whether erotic or aesthetic, Wesley knew—or felt—that rationality no longer matters. —Richard Shiff, critic and art historian John WesleyWesleyWorld: Works on Paper and Objects 1961–2004Wesley, who died in 2022 at age 93, maintained a remarkably consistent approach to image-making throughout his career. Marked by eroticism, wry humor, and often a slight sense of unease, Wesley’s work defies easy classification within any single artistic movement.Featuring a commissioned essay by art historian Richard Shiff, the digital catalogue, available to read above, includes photography of each work on paper and painted object in the gallery’s show—its first-ever presentation dedicated to Wesley. A selection of detail images in the catalogue shed light on the artist’s experimentations with repeating, layering, and mirroring images in his flattened, idiosyncratic figurations. The digital book also examines the various cultural subjects and ideas that entered his visual lexicon over the course of five decades. Read More His art nearly always seduces its viewer, even a cautious one, into imagining more than can be modestly and logically concluded. —Richard Shiff Journal View All Films Beatriz Milhazes at the 60th Venice Biennale May 17, 2024 Exhibitions London Gallery Weekend 2024 May 15, 2024 Museum Exhibitions Kevin Francis Gray at the Rudolph Tegners Museum and Sculpturepark May 13, 2024 Films Maysha Mohamedi and Sebastian Baden in Conversation May 09, 2024 Pace Publishing — WesleyWorld: Works on Paper and Objects 1961-2004, Feb 24, 2024