WENDELL GLADSTONE
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
1998 M.F.A., Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
1997 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1995 B.A. Double Major: Visual Art and Art History, Brown University, Providence, RI
Solo Exhibitions
2024 “A Face Drawn in the Sand at the Edge of the Sea, Public gallery, London, UK
2023 “Spooky Action”, Nazarian Curcio, Los Angeles, CA
2022 “Mirages to Touch”, Kravets Wehby, New York, NY
2020 “Safe Haven”, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
2019 “Lover’s Lair”, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
2018 “Fever Pitch”, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
2016 “Dethroned, Stoned and Boned”, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
2014 “Simple Machines”, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
2013 “Cave To The Grave”, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
2011 “Wendell Gladstone”, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
2010 “D.O.A., S.O.S., ETC.”, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
2009 “Wendell Gladstone”, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
2007 “Wendell Gladstone”, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
2006 “Wendell Gladstone”, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
2005 “Wendell Gladstone”, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
2003 “Wendell Gladstone”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
“Wendell Gladstone”, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
“Wendell Gladstone”, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
2001 “Wendell Gladstone”, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
1999 “Wendell Gladstone”, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
1998 “Wendell Gladstone”, Kravets/Wehby, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2022 “Phantasmata”, Public Gallery, London, UK
“Horror Vacui”, curated by Amir Fallah and Mark Schoening, TOA Presents, Minneapolis, MN
2021 “Intersecting Selves”, curated by Seth Curcio, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2018 “Sweet Cheeks”, curated by Melanie Faure and Doug Crocco, Big Pictures Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“Divided Brain”, curated by Brian Cooper and Colin Roberts, Lava Projects, Los Angeles, CA
“California Love”, curated by Andrew Shoultz, Droste Gallerie, Wuppertal, Germany
2017 “Searching for Magic and the Distorted Image Falling from your ICloud”, curated by Kwaku Boateng and Tabitha Steinberg, The Dot Gallery, London UK
“High-Res”, Kravets Wehby, New York, NY
2016 “Phantom Limb”, curated by Seth Curcio, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA
“Summer Group Show”, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
“Footing the Bill: Art and Our Ecological Footprint”, curated by Al Grumet, ARTWORKSFORCHANGE.ORG
2015. “Someplaces”, curated by David Pagel, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2014 "Fountains of the Deep: Visions of Noah and the Flood", curated by Darren Aronofsky, New York, NY
2013 “After Modernism”, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY
“Desaturated Rainbow”, curated by Colette Robbins and Amir Fallah, Field Projects, New York, NY
2012 "Holodeck", curated by Brad Eberhard, Post, Los Angeles CA
"Disorder", Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2011 “The Archaic Revival”, curated by Dani Tull, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2010. “The Incomplete”, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France
“Set Theory”, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
“Spring 2”, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
“Prelude to an Apocalypse”, Pederson Projects, Pomona, CA
2009 “Psychedelic, Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s”, curated by David S. Rubin, San Antonio Museum, San Antonio, TX
"Beautiful/Decay: A - Z exhibition," Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Winter Escape," Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
“Set Controls For the Heart of the Sun”, Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, CA
2008 “Los Angeles”, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan
“Some Paintings”, curated by Doug Harvey, Track 16, Los Angeles, CA
“L.A. Now”, curated by David Pagel, Las Vegas Art Museum , Las Vegas, NV
“The Occult”, curated by Michael Bevilacqua, Massimo Carasi/The Flat, Milan, Italy
“Against the Grain”, curated by Christopher Russell, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
“Apocalypse Yesterday”, curated by David Pagel, Claremont Graduate Univ., Los Angeles, CA
2007 “Phantasmania” , curated by Elizabeth Dunbar, Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
“The Incomplete”, curated by Manon Slome, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
“The Incomplete”, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “Fantasy Island,” MAMA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2005 “Drawn,” Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
“Frontier,” Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
2004 “Eye of the Needle,” Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
2003 “Split,” Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
2002 “21 Paintings from LA,” curated by James Gobel, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernardino, CA
“September Group Show”, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
“Summer Group Show”, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2001 “Diabolical Beauty” curated by Jane Callister and Colin Gardner, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Artfrankfurt, Curator’s Choice, David Pagel, Los Angeles: “The Dreams Stuff is Made of”, Frankfurt,Germany
“Spring,” Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2000 “Collector’s Choice,” curated by Norman Dubrow, Exit Art, New York, NY
1999 “New American Talent: The Fifteenth Exhibition,” curated by David Pagel, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX (traveling)
1998. “LACE Annuali,” curated by Franklin Sirmans, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
“Six Emerging Artists,” Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 “LA Current,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Group Exhibition”, Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, ME
Selected Bibliography
Bishop, Deborah, “Dream Spaces”, Luxe, March/April, 2024
Bonner-Evans, Isabella, “The Best Exhibitions to Visit in April”, Bricks Magazine, April 17, 2022
Jones, Jonathan, “Exhibitions of the Week”, The Guardian, Mar 25, 2022
Cascone, Sarah, “Editor’s Picks”, Artnet, Feb, 22, 2022
Editors, “The Approval Matrix”, New York Magazine, Jan 31 - Feb 13, 2022
Pollard, Madeleine, “Now You See Me, Artists Questioning the Construction of the Self, ”Elephant, Aug 23, 2021
Nafziger, Christina, “Seeking Sancutuary In the Unarthy Painting of Wendell Gladstone”, Create! Magazine, Jan 11, 2020
Cruz, Cristina, “Editors’ Picks New York”, Artnet, Apr 1, 2019
Remenchik, Jennifer, “Best of 2018, Our Top 15 Los Angeles Art Shows”, Hyperallergic, Dec 19, 2018
Wood, Eve, Divided Brain at Lava Projects, Art and Cake, Dec 1, 2018
Lubow, Arthur, Swimming in Art, W Magazine, Dec, 2018
Baumann, Sacha, Issue 6: The Parapraxis, Full Blede, Oct, 2018
Voyage LA Staff, “Meet Wendell Gladstone”, Voyage LA, Aug 21st, 2018
Robinson, Leanna, “Wendell Gladstone”, Artillery Magazine, Mar 6th, 2018
Hamada, Jeff, “Artist Spotlight: Wendell Gladstone, Booooooom.com, Mar 3, 2018
Zellen, Jody, “Wendell Gladstone at Shulamit Nazarian”, ArtScene LA. Feb 2018
Scott, Gabe, Fever Pitch: An Interview with Wendell Gladstone, Juxtapoz Magazine, Feb 15, 2018
Vesquez Mario, Fever Pitch (review), Fine Art in the Fast Lane, Feb 7, 2018
Wood, Eve,”Wendell Gladstone’s Fever Pitch at Shulamit Nazarian”, Art and Cake, Feb 1, 2018
Whitewall editors, “Must-See January Shows in Los Angeles”, Whitewall Magazine, Jan, 24, 2018
Remenchik, Jennifer, “Wendell Gladstone Brings Surreal Dreamscapes to Shulamit Nazarian”, BlackBook, Jan 17, 2018
Fleck, Ella, “Searching for Magic and the Distorted Image Falling from your ICloud”, King Kong Magazine, May 30, 2017
Kamer, Nimrod, “iCloud Art – Shattering the Pallus Quo”, Medium.com, May 5, 2017
Gottschalk, Molly, “15 Artists We Discovered at Art Brussels”, Artsy, Apr 20, 2017
Shankar, Avantika, “145 Galleries to Discover at Art Brussels”, Architectural Digest, Apr 19, 2017
Becker, Noah, “Imagery and Ideas, Interview with painter Wendell Gladstone”, Whitehot Magazine, Mar 2017
Boateng, Kwaku, “Artist to Watch Wendell Gladstone”, Fad magazine, Nov 22, 2016
Pagel, David, “Phantom Limb one of the Best Groups Shows of the Year”, The Los Angeles Times, Sept 1, 2016
Bell Johnson, Jacqueline, “Phantom Limb, Figures in a State of Mind”, Art and Cake, Sept 12, 2016
Anderson, Michael, “Dethroned, Stoned & Boned, Whitehot Magazine, Apr 2016
Staff, “Museum Offers New Exhibit”, Roslyn News, Jul, 31, 2013
Rosemberg, Jasmin, “Desaturated Rainbow”, LA Confidential, Jul, 22 2013
Moret, A., "The Color Theory of Two Coasts", Installation Magazine, Issue 17, Jul 2013
Weber, Carol Ruth, “Bursts of Color and a Selection of Alex Katz”, Examiner.com, Jun 29, 2013
Gannon, Suzanne, "Savoir Flair", Manhattan, Apr 2013
Hirsch, Faye, "Wendell Gladstone", Art in America, Dec 2011
Falah, Amir, “Wendell Gladstone Opens His Studio”, Huffington Post, Dec 2010
Michno, Christopher, “Prelude to an Apocalypse”, Art ltd., Nov 2010
Jean Black, Ezrha, “Prelude to an Apocalypse”, Artillery, Nov/Dec 2010
Marion, “Icronoaphic Paintings of Wendell Gladstone”, S.O.T.R., Nov 2010
Saltz, Jerry, “Too Much is Never Enough”, New York Magazine, Oct 25, 2010
Calder, Diane, “Prelude to an Apocalypse”, Art Scene, Sept 2010
Busk, Michael Reid, “A Mix Tape From the Future”, Inland Empire Weekly, Sept 9, 2010
Scarborough, James, “Prelude to an Apocalypse”, Huffington Post, Jul 27, 2010
Fallah, Amir, "A to Z: A Beautiful Decay Retrospective," Beautiful Decay, Jun 2009
Katsilometes, John, LVAM is Closing, but it doesn’y bother Jim, Las Vegas Sun, Feb 22, 2009
Peterson, Kristen, Las Vegas Museum Closing, Las Vegas Sun, Feb 20, 2009
Pagel, David, L.A. Now, exhibition catalog, Las Vegas Art Museum, Dec-Feb 2009
DiThomas, Christine, ed., Signs of the Apocalypse / Rapture, Front Forty Press, Chicago, 2008
Peterson, Kristen, "New, on display, from L.A”, Las Vegas Sun, Dec 12, 2008, p.7
Bosshart, Becky, “New Show Highlights LA’s Emerging Artists”, Las Vegas Sun, Dec 1, 2008
Maggi, Nicole, "the project room: Wendell Gladstone," Art Key, Dec 2008
Pagel, David, L.A. Now, exhibition catalog, Las Vegas Art Museum, Bright City Books, 2008
Bucklow, Christopher, “Apocalypse/Rapture”, catalog, Front Forty Press, 2008
Wagley, Catherine, “Ending Decadence”, Artslant magazine, Sept 2008
Karapetian, Farrah, ““Against the Grain”, WhiteHot magazine, Sept 2008
Cheh, Carol, "Against the Grain,"themagla.com, Sept 2008
Ollman, Leah, “A Show’s Artists in a State of Unrest”, The Los Angeles Times”, Aug 8, 2008
O’Brian, Pat, “Painter’s Show Their Strokes”, The Press Enterprise, Jul 24, 2008
Dambrot, Shana Nys, "Against the Grain," Flavorpill.com, Jul-Aug 2008
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah, “Against the Grain”, Artforum.com, July-Aug, 2008
Azimi, Roxana, “Hubert Nuemann Collectionnuer”, Les Journal Des Arts, # 285, Jul-Sept 2008
Harwitt, Maxwell, “Ahistory Repeats Itself”, New Angeles Monthly, Issue 13 Jun 2008
Knight, Christopher, “The List, Critic’s Preview”, The Los Angeles Times”, Jun 12, 2008
Russell, Christopher,“Against the Grain”, LACE catalog, Los Angeles, Jun 2008
Harwitt, Maxwell, "Ahistory Repeats Itself," New Angeles Monthly, Jun 2008
Delux, Bertrand, "Occult," Zero, May 15, 2008
Bryan, Meredith, Style, The New York Observer, May 20, 2008
Pesce, Nicole Lyn, Hot List: This Weeks News & To-Do’s, New York Daily News, May 19, 2008
Russell, Chris, "LA's "Top 80,"' Artillery, Vol 2 No 4, Mar-Apr 2008
Harvey, Doug, ‘”Some Paintings”, LA Weekly, Jan 10-17, 2008
Gerrity, Jeanne, "Mythological Mosaic," Beautiful Decay Magazine, Issue T, 2007
Viveros-Faune, Christian, “Vapid Transit”, Village Voice, Nov 6, 2007
Hubert Neumann and Manon Slome, “The Incomplete”, exhibition catalogue, Chelsea Art Museum, Sept 2007
Ramspott, Becca," Phantasmania”, exhibition catalogue curated by Elizabeth Dunbar, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Jul 2007
"Arts + Selects: Failure to Close," The New York Sun, page 14, Oct 2, 2007
Thorson, Alice, “Anything But a Feel-Good Show,” The Kansas City Star, Jun 16, 2007
Pflaum, Nadia, “Phantasmania,” The Pitch Kansas City, Jun 14, 2007
Miles, Christopher, “Wendell Gladstone,” Flaunt, #80 Jan 2007
Pagel, David, “Restless and Wild Creatures”, Los Angeles Times, Jan 2007
Wood, Eve, “Wendell Gladstone, Roberts and Tilton Gallery” Artillery, Mar 2007
Berkeum, Boris, “Niewe Wilde, Rails, December 2006/Jan 2007
Elder, Marianne, “Moving Past Present”, exhibition catalogue, C.G. U., May 2007
Thorson, Alice, “Picturing 2007”, The Kansas City Star, Dec 28, 2006
Gable, Tom, “The Native: Governy, Blastulas, and Lunch,” San Diego Magazine, Dec 2005
Berwick, Carly, “Wendell Gladstone: Kravets/Wehby,” Artnews, Jun 2005
Sicha, Choire, “A Goth Dr. Seuss,” New York Times (Arts & Leisure), Jan 23, 2005
Pincus, Robert L., “Sea Stories”, San Diego Union Tribune, (w/image), January 15, 2004
Freeman, Tommy, “Wendell Gladstone,” artUS, Apr-May 2004
“MCA San Diego,” Tema Celeste, Jan-Feb 2004
Pelzer, Joshua, “Claremont Gets ‘Raw,’ ‘Cooked’,” Los Angeles Times, Jan 9, 2004
Miles, Christopher, “Wendell Gladstone,” Artforum, Oct 2003
Pagel, David, “Far Out Tales,” Los Angeles Times, Jun 20, 2003
Wood, Eve, “Blood In the Hive: Wendell Gladstone’s Dart Utopia,” D’Art, 2003
Johnson, Ken, “Wendell Gladstone,” New York Times, Feb 21,28 and Mar 7, 2003
Miles, Christopher and Gobel, James, 21 Paintings from LA, exhibition catalogue, 2002
Gardner, Colin, Diabolical Beauty, exhibition catalogue, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 2001
Sirmans, Franklin, “Wendell Gladstone,” Time Out New York, Dec 13-27, 2001
Woodard, Josef, “Mind of the Beholder,” City Guide Santa Barbara, Dec 14, 2001
Finch, Charlie, “My Own Private Biennial,” Artnet.com, Dec 5, 2001
Sirmans, Franklin, Time Out New York, Feb 2000
Pagel, David, “New American Talent,” exhibition catalogue ,The Jones Center, Austin, Texas,1999
Polyester, Summer 1999
Webb, John, “The Exhibitionists,” MetroSource, Spring 1999
Ise, Claudine, “Picks,” LA Times, Sept 2, 1998
Frank, Peter, “Pick of the Week,” LA Weekly, Sep 8, 1998