Night Gallery is pleased to present 'The First Turn of the Screw,' an exhibition and online viewing room of new paintings by Andy Woll. This will be the artist's third exhibition with the gallery. On view January 23 - February 20, 2021. Andy Woll’s canvases are driven by an obsessive exploration of form as well as the materiality of paint. By repeatedly painting the same subject he allows himself space for unlimited improvisation and discovery. Over the past five years, he has returned to Mt. Wilson as a subject, the peak that sits just East of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel mountains. As a native of Los Angeles he has an intimate knowledge of the mountain’s physicality from traversing its many trails and streams. As a painter, he has found continual inspiration in the way the mountain’s surface reflects the light of the Los Angeles Basin, an ever-changing spectrum that shifts hour to hour, day to day, allowing him infinite possibilities of palettes to explore. In this recent body of paintings he has embedded the figures from Diego Velázquez’s 1656 masterpiece “Las Meninas” within the form of Mt. Wilson. Each painting from this series contains one of the eleven figures from this iconic painting hidden within the thick, at times sculptural, brushstrokes. Central to Woll’s practice is the idea of arriving at abstraction through representation and he is drawn to “Las Meninas” as a key, historical moment to this idea in art history, and here he has applied lessons from the master to his beloved mountain.