Will Hutnick’s works synthesize painting, sculpture, installation and theory. Currently, he meditates on acrylic, oil, ink, spray paint, tape, and found objects (e.g., a soda can or shred torn from his past works) on paper to form tactile constructions. Hutnick reformulates traditional painting process by manipulating recognizable media into novel visual content. His protruding surfaces contain indiscernible breaks of line and shape: paint stroke and tape strip conflate into a single line; a drying painting is pressed against another paper to render a pseudo-mirror image in a monoprint. Most of his material comes directly from the floor of his studio and organically builds into installation or sculptures, such as his series of “Tape Monsters.”

More interested in the dichotomy of chance and intention, he plays with characteristics of material and his control of it. Hutnick creates installation by balancing his painting tools and studio materials, embracing the inevitable consequence to depict a moment of suspension, transition and potential. He anticipates that these precarious structures may collapse and, in turn, leave behind physical evidence of the event and an instance now passed.

Currently living and working in both Brooklyn and Wassaic, Hutnick was born and raised on Long Island, NY (Manhasset, 1985). He received his B.A. in Painting and Art History from Providence College in Providence, RI, and earned his M.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited his work throughout New York City in spaces such as the 2012 Governors Island Art Fair and the Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition. His work was featured in New American Paintings #99 and he is the Residency Director for the Wassaic Project.