January 7 – February 11, 2017
Opening Reception: January 7, 6-8
Steve Turner is pleased to present Ladies and Gentlemen, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based Phil Wagner that features paintings of numbers and dotted lines. Uniformly painted in black, white and grey, the numbers are instantly recognizable as phone numbers because the first three numbers are area codes within Los Angeles County. Consequently, Wagner has transformed seemingly random numbers into painterly images with regional identity.
Phil Wagner (born 1974, East Moline, Illinois) earned a BFA from Illinois State University (1996) and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute (1998). He has had solo exhibitions at UNTITLED, New York (2010, 2012, 2015); Mihai Nicodim, Los Angeles (2013); and two-person exhibitions with Henry Taylor at Rental Gallery, New York (2010) and with Jean-luc Moulene at The Arts Club, London (2013).
Born 1974, East Moline, Illinois
Lives and work in Los Angeles
Education
1998 MFA San Francisco Art Institute
1996 BFA Illinois State University
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Ladies and Gentlemen, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2016 Black Standard, Capital Gallery at Minnesota St. Project, San Francisco
2015 It’s Been Too Long, Untitled Gallery, New York
2013 End of March, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
Phil Wagner/ Jean-Luc Moulene, The Arts Club, London
2012 With Love, Untitled Gallery, New York
2011 Voila, Parker Jones Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 Gracias, Untitled Gallery, New York
Phil Wagner/Henry Taylor, Rental Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2016 Cosmic Connections, Totah Gallery, New York
2014 In Conversation with George Nakashima, Matthew Chambers, Rob Davis,
Roger Herman, Henry Taylor, and Phil Wagner
2013 Art at the Core, Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Farewell Rodney, Curated by Rashid Johnson, Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv
2012 Interruption, Curated by Kim Light, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Into the Surface, Brand New Gallery, Milan
2011 American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
2010 Painting and Space, Luce Gallery, Turin, Italy
Phil Wagner, David Adamo, Heather Cook, Brendan Fowler, Rashid Johnson,
Untitled Gallery, New York
