Avery Wheless
Born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1993, Avery Wheless received a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Her energetic and tender paintings are crafted with an Impressionist sensibility, portraying the female form in play, leisure, solitude, agony; and ecstasy. “It’s gory to have a body,” says Wheless about her works. Working also as a video artist, the movement of bodies across her paintings has origins in Wheless’s history with dance, particularly ballet. Delicate movements command power and space, both on film and on the canvas.
Her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, “So does everybody else” debuted at Rusha & Co. in 2022. Her work has also been exhibited at The Pit, Los Angeles; Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley; Superzoom, Paris; Suggested Followers curated by Jerry Gogosian at Sotheby’s, New York; and Junior High, Los Angeles.
Send Me Your Sleeping Remedies 2022 oil on canvas 72 x 60 in. 182.9 x 152.4 cm
Looking Backward, Moving Forward 2022 oil on canvas 72 x 60 in. 182.9 x 152.4 cm
Watching You Watch Me 2022 oil on canvas 72 x 60 in. 182.9 x 152.4 cm
Every Word Out Too Soon 2022 oil on canvas 72 x 60 in. 182.9 x 152.4 cm
No Occassion Needed 2022 oil on canvas 72 x 60 in. 182.9 x 152.4 cm
do you know what I mean, do you see what I mean 2022 oil on canvas 50 x 38 in. 127 x 96.5 cm
Missing 2021 oil on canvas 11 x 11 in. 28 x 28 cm
Who's There 2021 oil on canvas 72 x 60 in. 182.9 x 152.4 cm
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