Joel Wyllie

"Joel Wyllie’s drawings express the pleasure of being haunted. They linger with a gentle unsettlement that pleasantly rubs against the human mystery center. These images cannot be possessed by viewers’ eyes; they float past our chiasma like a grey fog. From a distance, they appear to hold form, but they are not, it appears, solid; just a fine particulate dust suspended in the air. These are nebular apparitions slipping in and out of our reality and Wyllie, like some documentarian of the liminal, offers us a chance to see them before they are gone."

—Ross Simonini

Joel Wyllie (b. 1986, London, UK) lives and works in Suffolk, England. He graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2015. Recent exhibitions include The Drawing Room, London (2024, 2021); The Artist Room, London (2024); Jack’s House, London (2024); and Kunsthaus Kule, Berlin (2024). Joel Wyllie participated in the inaugural exhibition of the Averard Hotel, London (2016) with a site-specific mural painting. Aerial the Projectionist is Joel Wyllie’s first solo exhibition in New York.