Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to present a summer show featuring the work of three exciting young artists. They work with a variety of materials: rubber, copper plating, plastic toy soldiers, and acrylic on panel.

Beau Chamberlain’s riotous scenes of nature run amok are fantasies that provide the viewer with an opportunity to abandon the quotidian and escape. His canvases are bursting with color and a dizzying assortment of botanical and entomological subjects. And yet, because they lack any concrete clues about time, place, or even scale, these very figurative works begin to verge on the abstract. Nonetheless, Chamberlain sees the landscape genre in general, and his works in particular, as being linked to the idea of narrative. To that end, he addresses his viewer with tantalizingly meaningful titles such as “Apartment living”, “This is your mess”, and “Survival tactics.” Chamberlain sees these titles as a way to help to guide the viewer through these environments, and provide the framework for a narrative of their own construction.

Jil Weinstock encases vintage nightgowns inherited from her grandmother and generic button down shirts alike in fleshy rubber to explore issues of nostalgia, memory and identity. At once eerie and ethereal, her sculptures also make bold minimalist statements. Recently, she has coated childhood toys in a layer of copper, using the same technique with which baby booties are preserved. Presenting objects in this way, as when they are covered, or only just escaping from their rubber shells, memorializes the object itself and its past, as much as it speaks to our individual and collective pasts and memories. No matter the medium, the sampling of work here shows Weinstock’s nuanced approach to these themes--always from a new and slightly different angle, always with the same aesthetically stunning results.

Scott Patt’s paintings and varnished prints on canvas are also concerned with nostalgia and childhood memories, albeit with a strong dose of humor. The series “stays crunchy in milk” features beautiful, glossy, abstract swirls of bright paint that happen to contain subtle reminders of the sugar-packed cereals of his/our youth. “Good guys, bad guys” uses iconic (but decidedly politically incorrect), plastic toy figurines, here brightly colored and suspended on wood panels in a thick coat of resin. Like his other works, they function as color studies as well as bits of nostalgia. Finally, “wormholes” posits a troubled relationship between space and time, resulting from the titular wormhole event. Their struggles are played out in brief messages on each canvas such as, “Dear Space, It’s not you. It’s you. Time.” and “Dear Time, Wish you were here. Space.” Through this witty text, Patt plays with a complex scientific theory in order to explore the very relatable problems that must be surmounted in any relationship.


For further information, please contact Amanda Snyder at 212-255-2718.