Slipping Glimpster

 “When I’m falling, I’m doing alright. And when I’m slipping, I say, ‘Hey, this is very interesting.’… That is a wonderful sensation … to slip into this glimpse.”
 – Willem de Kooning to David Sylvester, 1960
 
Wönzimer is pleased to present Slipping Glimpser, an exhibition of five painters working in Los Angeles, connected through a shared commitment to process, improvisation, and dialogue. Through a series of informal studio visits over the past two years, these artists exchanged ideas, shared works in progress, and explored the slipperiness of looking, making, and understanding.

 It began when Iva texted Pat and Munro for a studio visit. They went to her studio on North Spring Street, near the LA River, where Cameron was already waiting. Aaron showed up a little later. Together they moved the giant paintings around, shifting them to see from different angles.They talked about habitats, craters, tornadoes, ghostly transparencies, and dotted lines. Iva gave everyone a drawing, and afterward they went to the bar.