"Untitled (pan painting)" 2015/2022. B. Wurtz.
KIPNZ Editions
Archival pigment print with certificate
16 x 20 inches (paper size, unframed)
Edition of 20 with 5 Artist Proofs and 2 Publisher’s Proofs
Photographed by Barney Kulok
In this collaboration, KIPNZ Editions has partnered with B. Wurtz to present edition prints of photographs of the artists’ “pan paintings,” where mundane aluminum pans are transformed into bold and playful artworks.
Born 1948 in Pasadena, California, B. Wurtz is best known for his playful and compelling sculptures constructed from discarded materials like produce packaging, construction lumber, and plastic bags. His repurposing of everyday flotsam into joyous, humorous, and beautiful objects undermine grand artistic gesture while elevating the commonplace. The artist’s transformative amalgams of found materials have tended to coalesce around the subjects of “sleeping, eating, and keeping warm”—the foundational human needs named in his 1973 drawing Three Important Things, updated in 2022 with KIPNZ Editions and Garth Greenan Gallery.
Wurtz has been the subject of over 52 solo exhibitions at prestigious venues including: Feature Inc. (1987, 1991, 1992, 2001, 2003, 2006, New York); Gallery 400 (2000, Chicago); White Flag Projects (2012, St. Louis); Kunstverein (2015, Freiburg, Germany); and the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, (2015, Ridgefield, Connecticut).
