Ireland Wisdom

Carlye Packer is pleased to invite you to a two-week presentation of recent small-scale oil paintings by artist Ireland Wisdom, on view in New York City. This focused presentation features a series of contemplative paintings from life, showcasing Wisdom’s refined approach to form, color, and everyday intimacy. The presentation offers viewers a quiet yet evocative encounter with the artist’s evolving practice.

Ireland Wisdom (b. 1996, Los Angeles, CA) was trained classically at the rigorous painting atelier at the Florence Academy of Art, which included three years of painting live models, 7am-9pm daily, critiqued for technique and quality of mimicry. Wisdom has religiously continued in the tradition of live mode painting. For Wisdom, we exist in the imagination of history, a collusion of time – we are in the 21st century and yet we have thousands of years of painting behind us. Painting becomes about putting it all together, imbuing old values, ancient iconography and style, with newness, creating a landscape in which all time periods could be found and new value systems formed.

Wisdom is currently based in NYC and has had solo exhibitions at Carlye Packer Los Angeles, CA; The Bowlish House, Somerset, UK; The Breeder Gallery, Athens, Greece; and Kontemporary Residency, Seoul, Korea. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA; Maison Lune, Los Angeles, CA; Eastern Projects, Los Angeles, CA; and KIAF Art Fair, Seoul, Korea.