Wilding Cran Gallery is pleased to present Squares, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by acclaimed California-based painter, Gary Lang. Best known for his concentric circles, Lang creates radiant, geometric paintings that pulse with color and vibrational energy. Squares brings together a suite of square format paintings, each an exploration of color, repetition, and visual resonance, exhibited for the first time in Los Angeles. Lang’s square paintings glow from within and ripple outward in luminous sequences. Painted in carefully measured bands that shift in tone, density, and temperature, the canvases create a rhythmic, optical experience. The colors either blend softly from one into the next or jolt from hot to cold, dark to bright, keeping the eye in constant motion. Whether softly meditative or sharply electric, the pieces share a hypnotic intensity that draws the viewer inward. In this series, Lang constructs his paintings through a meticulous process. Each color is laid down with precision, taped and masked one layer at a time, working from the outermost square inward. The full image is not revealed until the final piece of tape is pulled. Lang, like the viewer, only sees the finished composition all at once. It’s a process rooted in discipline and repetition, but with an openness to discovery and chance. Lang’s practice is an ongoing dialogue with color and perception. For decades, he has explored the way hues behave in relationship to one another, how they guide the eye, and how they conjure emotional response. In Squares, color is not just a tool, it is the subject, the method, and the mystery. This is Gary Lang's second solo exhibition with Wilding Cran Gallery. Gary Lang (b. 1950, Los Angeles, California) is an internationally exhibited artist, his work has been featured in more than seventy solo exhibitions in the United States, Austria, France, Japan, The Netherlands, and Spain. He received his BFA from California Institute of Art and his MFA from Yale University. In the 1970’s he lived in Barcelona on a Fulbright/Hayes Travel Grant and lived in New York and Los Angeles before settling in Ojai, CA. Lang’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Portland Museum of Art, ME; and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI; Gemeentemuseum den Haag, The Netherlands; Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; Plains Art Museum, Moorehead, MN; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Museum of Art Contemporain, Angers, France. In 2015 he received the Arts & Letters Award, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in NYC, and in 2017 he received the Francis J. Greenburger Award. Lang currently lives and works in Ojai, CA.