Wardell米兰 engages with the practices of 画, 摄影, 绘画, and performance to create works of varying scales that center the representation of the human figure. Often arresting and seductive in their dramatic fragmentation of form and vibrant use of color, Milan’s work captivates and encourages sustained consideration. Sustained looking reveals the urgent social issues ever present in his practice, 虽然并不总是立即明显. 总部设在纽约，在田纳西州受训, Milan’s figures reflect American experience relevant to today and emerging from our collective history.
2022年秋季和2023年春季, the Benton presents Milan’s recent work in two distinct but related presentations: five monumental billboards on the campus of 皇冠体育大学, and four large works on paper in the entrance foyer of the museum.
The billboards—Milan’s first outdoor campus-based project—lead the viewer on a journey through the college. Inspired by the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, they offer a sustained meditation on the marginalized body, 每个广告牌一个:被隔离的尸体, 黑体, 移民群体, 女性的身体, 而跨体. The four works on view in the Benton’s entrance foyer similarly employ multiple techniques of image-making—摄影, 画, 拼贴画, erasure—to disassemble and reassemble the human form, examining the practice and concept of figuration itself. 通过制造和改造身体, 通过让这个过程透明化, Milan exposes the emotional vulnerabilities and redemptive possibilities of the physical self, transmuting violence into beauty and isolation into belonging.
This project has been made possible by the Fund for Art in Public Places and by the 艺术品收购和项目基金.
