The Bell
Cahokia, IL
(2016-2017)
Wesley rented a disused Taco Bell outside St. Louis for 1 year, converting it
to both studio and gallery space.
Video courtesy Frieze
Some Work
356 Mission, Los Angeles
2015
I Beam U Channel, 2015
Steel
6 x 6 x 432 in (15 x 15 x 1097 cm)
A steel beam which subtly transitions from an I-beam on one end to a U Channel on the other.
Remix (Cube medium), 2019
Bronze on walnut pedestal
Sculpture: 16 x 16 x 16 in (40.5 x 40.5 x 40.5 cm)
A reconfiguration of Wells Fargo’s famous logo, coming apart at the seams. Wesley first conceived of this work amidst the 2008 financial crisis and revisited the concept for 2019 – a time when the world has once again fallen off its wheels.
"Spa-fice" (2007)
Fondazione Morra Greco,
Naples
How close is a Bond villain
to the banal reality of an
office executive –
or even to our own attempts
to reach “work-life balance?"
Video
Eric Wesley
eric wesley procrastination meditation poem
Mannahatta, 2018
fast short film
Clean Machine (Turkish Style), 2008
Cast cement and washing machine
55 1/8 x 22 1/2 x 11 7/8 in (140 x 57 x 30cm)
Performance
The Bell, Mannahatta
Red Bull Arts at NADA New York, 2018
Wood pallet, sword, marble sheet cake
D'Carts Blanche and New Paintings
Bortolami, New York
2010
A play on the Cartesian coordinates of X, Y and Z, Wesley installed carts which extend on each axis and "action paintings" executed in primary colors. In this scenario, fear (yellow) runs, aggression (red) explodes, and sadness (blue) streaks.
Wesley poses an exchange between "I think therefore I am" versus "I feel therefore I am".
Red, Yellow and Blue Picture, 2010
Latex on canvas
228 x 132 inches (335 x 579 cm)
DPS Paintings
2014-2017
Oil or acrylic on aluminum on linen
48 x 37 inches (122 x 94 cm)
Wesley recreated small paper notes (or "Daily Progress Status Reports") on which he had written grocery lists, doodled, or folded as a paper plane – as larger, photorealistic paintings.
The original notes were placed on a lightbox so that both the recto and verso of the original paper were translated into the painting.
Breakfast
1992
Video
The earliest work in Estate - a compilation of two videos Eric made as a teenager in 1992.
Eric Wesley has been featured in publications including
The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Artforum, Frieze and Artnews. See his press archive here.
