The Kravets/Wehby Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Wendell Gladstone opening on Thursday, May 14 and running through June 20, 2009.

Wendell Gladstone’s newest body of work comprises portraits whose subjects are in flux, oscillating between growth and decay. Mosaic motifs and pointillist masses expand and disintegrate creating a surface alive with kinetic energy. Things fall apart only to gather again becoming part of the ongoing cycles ubiquitous to Wendell’s work. In this exhibition of paintings, Wendell’s roots as a sculptor remain stalwart. His compositions have become more intense while the subjects feel as if they are resting on the immediate surface of the picture plane creating a vivid stacked assemblage that morphs into the third dimension.

Wendell Gladstone is a young artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. His work was recently included in “LA Now” curated by David Pagel at the Las Vegas Art Museum as well as “Phastasmania” curated by Elizabeth Dunbar at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City and “The Incomplete” at the Chelsea Art Museum. He was also recently included in shows at Massimo Carassi/The Flat Gallery in Milan and Gallery Min Min in Tokyo. His work has recently been written about in Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Las Vegas Sun, Flaunt and Beautiful Decay and was included in the catalogue “Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture” curated by Doug Fogelson for Front Forty press.