Incorporating a range of motifs such as popcorn, automotive parts, and keys, JPW3 creates paintings and sculptures that thrive on his liberal approach to appropriation. The artist covers images and objects sourced from contemporary daily life in dense layers of wax tinted with ink, paint, rust, and other remnants from his studio. His gestures of submerging, freezing, and distorting representational forms reveal the ability of his chosen medium, wax, to simultaneously record and obscure visual details and their connections with the outside world. In JPW3’s celebrated “bucket stamp” paintings, the artist explores his interest in repetition and infinity, as well as textual abbreviations evidenced by his titles.

JPW3 (b. 1981 Tallahassee, FL) received his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2012, and his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Select exhibitions include “change is death”, Martos Gallery, NY (2018), “Figure Ascending a Return”, Martos Gallery, New York, NY (2017), “Drifting the Bog”, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2017); “Sleep Never Rusts”, Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson AZ (2016); Balice Hertling, Paris, France(2015); “CURSIIING FUCKIIING TIIMIIIIIING DRIINKING TEXTIIIING DRIIVIIIING”, Galerie Nagel Drexler, Berlin, Germany, (2017); and “Come Inside Your Mind”, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne, Germany (2015).