April 11 - July 1, 2025
From Picnic Curatorial Projects:
“A live performance of eight original compositions, celebrating the release of ‘Guitar Music’, A full-length recording by Easy Sevens, Boone’s ongoing, collaborative musical project. The performance will occur within an installation created by the artist and feature new sculpture.
The ‘Guitar Music’ vinyl LP (released on the Online Ceramics label) and limited edition merch will be available for purchase at the opening, with a portion of proceeds benefitting the Gulf Coast Canine Project.
Will Boone ( b. 1982, Houston) developed his multidisciplinary art practice in Texas under the influence of underground music, drawing on the material manifestations of various American obsessions; Elvis, conspiracy theories, roadside attractions, the open road, the country’s native flora and fauna, and monster movies all feature in Boone’s cosmological vernacular. For his early text-based “sigil” paintings, the artist took inspiration from marks left by twentieth-century vagabonds as they traversed the United States. Subsequent work made in New York and later Los Angeles includes zines and books, sprawling installations, hand-painted bronze statues of blown-up vintage hobby models, a sculpture sited on the backlot of Paramount Picture studios, another in an underground bunker in the Coachella Valley for DesertX 2017, and Sweet Perfume (2019), a film featuring a misunderstood Leatherface character who moves to California to find himself. Boone shares a fascination with the dark underbelly of the American psyche with sculptor Cady Noland and an obsession with the mythological Western landscape of extremes with artist Robert Smithson. The artist lives in Houston.
Boone presented his first solo show in New York at Karma in 2011 and has since had exhibitions at Karma, New York (2023); David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2019–20); Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris (2018); and the Rubell Family Collection (now the Rubell Museum), Miami (2014), among others. His work is held in the collections of institutions such as the Fundación Baruch Spinoza, Barcelona; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; and Rubell Museum.”
Performance: April 11, 2025 | 8:30–9:30 pm
Picnic Curatorial Projects at The Power Station (Dallas)
3816 Commerce Street
Dallas, 75226 Texas
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