W.TUCKER

“We’re all just walking each other home”

13 OCTOBER - 13 NOVEMBER 2022

W. Tuckers first exhibition in Scandinavia.

"I see myself as a worker. I get up in the morning, I head to the studio and begin work. This for me is a consistent means of self-exploration and exploration of the world around me. It is a meditation of sorts where I see which characters in the work – a person, an animal, a house, a scribble, a cup - are struggling, fighting and which characters are finding balance. This battle to find balance seems to be an ever-present theme in the work and often reflects some aspect of my own life struggles or those that I observe in the world.
The pieces in this show continue to embrace and explore this theme.

Each element in a piece has a reason and a personality.
As they are placed, a story evolves. A story that I usually see once the piece is complete.

The elements that comprise the work often seem simple and in a certain respect they are.
Some characters reoccur simply because I enjoy the process of drawing or painting them. Others reoccur because they bring a simple presence to a more complicated situation or question.

The title of this show,
“we are all just walking each other home”*,
speaks to the idea that whether we are sitting with a friend having a coffee or holding the hand of a loved one as they
pass to another world, and as cliché as it sounds, all we can do is be in those moments. Be present, be still. That is what I feel I attempt to do in this work."

*this line is attributed to Ram Dass

W. Tucker was born in July of 1959 in Goldsboro,
North Carolina. He began drawing and painting in 1986.
Tucker’s work has been represented in the US by galleries in California, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming. His work has also been shown in various galleries in Switzerland. He continues to work with Koelsch Gallery in Houston, TX, Conduit Gallery in Dallas, TX and Tayloe Piggott Gallery in Jackson Hole, WY. Tucker’s work has been published in volume number 67, 102, 144 (online) of New American Painting’s, a juried show in print. Residencies have included a stay in 1991 at Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula, California and at the Fountainhead Residency in Miami in 2008. For the 2012-13 season Tucker was awarded Austin Critics Table Award for “Best Installation” as well as “Artist of the year” for his installation at Texas State University. He attended Circle in the Square through New York University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama in 1982.

Tucker lives and works in Austin, Texas

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