Three Candles

Three Candles, 2011

My exhibition Bohemian opens in Water Valley, Mississippi on May 1.  Work created in Prague, Czech Republic from 2011-2015, 44 pieces

http://www.yalostudio.com/2015/04/lawrence-wells-bohemian.html

Bohemian,
opening at Yalo Studio on May 1st, is a collection of expressionist,
figurative paintings (impasto oil and acrylic studies) and drawings
(gestural pen, brush and ink) that combine symbols and motifs such as
astronauts, Native Americans, skeletons, monkeys, still lifes,
candlesticks, imaginary portraits, houseplants, sacred geometry, ocean
liners, the Titanic, computer monitors, ghostly figures and office
furniture.

As
an expatriate and emigrant, Wells deals with metaphors of travel,
immigration, cultural difference, isolation, technology and the future.
Wells went to Prague the first time in the early 1990s, as a member of
the first wave of American expatriates. After living in New Orleans and
New York, in 2001 he returned to Prague, where he continues to live and
work in his studio in the former industrial area of Vysocany.

He
has shown his works in a number of underground, alternative spaces
including AM180, Galerie Kytka, Berlinskej Model, Galerie Prokopka, and
Galerie NTK among others. Wells’ work moves from mysterious narratives
to symbolic memento mori still lifes and emotional portraits to
evocative hauntological examinations of retro-future nostalgia, becoming
increasingly metaphysical as they approach the “Internet of Things”
with a certain mistrust.