Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College (Ithaca, NY)

Changing Faster than the Weather

March 21 – April 22, 2024

Will Hutnick’s lively creative practice uses a range of traditional formal and technical approaches that result in a decidedly nontraditional body of work. Radical juxtapositions and repeated patterns abut color bars, gradients, and stenciled forms alluding to digital artifacts we have seen flicker past the many screens ubiquitous in daily life. Hutnick’s works further disorient through ambiguous figure/ground relationships and jarring transitions which remind us of the competition for our attention happening on screens. Hutnick has described his work as a queering of the landscape, leaving us to question whether the glitch is a bug or a feature in his dynamic mixed media paintings.