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Merrill Wagner

Coast

+ David Zwirner

In its emphasis on materiality and mutability, Wagner’s inventive work elides traditional categories of painting, relief, sculpture, and installation. Emerging in the 1960s, at a moment when minimalism and post-minimalism became dominant idioms, Wagner both eschewed and embraced their primary concerns, creating rigorous, hard-edged abstract compositions that subtly referenced the genre of landscape.
David Zwirner
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