Will Insley

(American, 1929–2011)

wall fragment no.93.11 by will insley

Will Insley

Wall Fragment No.93.11, 1993

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/buildings/ no. 19-20 interior building corridor of life gate – view from the air by will insley

Will Insley

/Buildings/ No. 19-20 Interior Building Corridor of Life Gate – view from the air, 1970–1972

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/building/ no. 19-20 interior building corridor of life gate - view from the air by will insley

Will Insley

/Building/ No. 19-20 Interior Building Corridor of Life Gate - View from the Air, 1970–1972

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wall fragment no. 88.1 by will insley

Will Insley

Wall Fragment No. 88.1, 1988

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/building/ no. 34, channel space 1248 by will insley

Will Insley

/Building/ No. 34, Channel Space 1248, 1973–1983

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/building/ no. 41, volume space interior swing, section through by will insley

Will Insley

/Building/ No. 41, Volume Space Interior Swing, Section Through, 1973–1981

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onecity building a, section a by will insley

Will Insley

ONECITY Building A, Section A, 1979–1980

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onecity building room, section red green elevation by will insley

Will Insley

ONECITY Building Room, Section Red Green Elevation, 1978–1981

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wall fragment 66.4 by will insley

Will Insley

Wall Fragment 66.4, 1966–1967

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/building/ no. 6, channel space spiral by will insley

Will Insley

/Building/ No. 6, Channel Space Spiral, 1973

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/building/ no. 17, passage space spiral - view from the air by will insley

Will Insley

/Building/ No. 17, Passage Space Spiral - view from the air, 1970

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wall fragment 64.6, wind by will insley

Will Insley

Wall Fragment 64.6, Wind, 1964

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Biography

Timeline

1929
Born in Indianapolis, IN
1951
B.A., Amherst College, MA
1955
M.A. Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
1966
National Foundation on Arts and Humanities
1969
Guggenheim Fellowship
1994
Gottlieb Foundation Grant
Lived and worked in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2021
Dream Monuments. Menil Drawing Institute, May 21 – Sep 19, 2021
Alice Aycock, Beverly Buchanan, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Mel Chin, Christo, Walter De Maria, Agnes Denes, Mary Beth Edelson, Jackie Ferrara, Gray Foy, Michael Heizer, Will Insley, Richard Long, Marta Minujín, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Smithson, Michelle Stuart. Co-curated by Erica DiBenedetto, guest curator, and Kelly Montana, Assistant Curator at the Menil Drawing Institute.
2020
Will Insley: Logical Insanity, Drawing ONECITY and the Abstract /Buildings/, WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC, August 4 – October 3 (solo exhibition)
2019
I Prefer Not To. Musée transitoire, Paris
2018
50 Years. An Anniversary. A Benefit Exhibition for March for Our Lives. Carl Andre, Jo Baer, Robert Barry, Bill Bollinger, Dan Flavin, Robert Huot, Will Insley, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Robert Murray, Doug Ohlson, Robert Ryman, Paula Cooper Gallery, October 10 – November 3
Will Insley: Mythological Elsewhere, ONECITY 1970s-90s, WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC, September 14 – November 30 (solo exhibition)
2016
Will Insley: Paintings from the 1960s, WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC, September 6 – October 29 (solo exhibition)
Drawing Dialogues: Selections from Sol LeWitt’s Collection. The Drawing Center, New York City, April 15 – June 12
James Juthstrom and Will Insley: Abstraction in New York, WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC
2014
Foundations of ONECITY. Paintings, photo-collages, maquettes. WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC, June 1 – July 19 (solo exhibition)
2012
Cellblock I and II, An Essay In Exhibition Form, Curated by Robert Hobbs, Andrea Rosen Gallery, December 1 – February 2, 2013
ONECITY, Paintings from the 1960s, Westwood Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Towards A Warm Math. On Stellar Rays Gallery, New York, NY
On the Bowery. Silkscreens by Cy Twombly, Robert Ryman, Will Insley, Robert Indiana, Les Levine, John Willenbecher, Charles Hinman, Richard Smith, Gerald Laing and John Giorno. Photographs by Eliot Elisofon. Westwood Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Will Insley: ONECITY Wall Fragments from the walls of ONECITY, drawings and photographs of abstract buildings outside ONECITY, Westwood Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2007
Drawn from Artists’ Collections, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2006
Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part Two, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, May 10 – October 2

Literature

2007
Humblet, Claudine, The New American Abstraction 1950-1970, Second Volume, Skira Editore S.p.A, Italy, 2007, pp. 967-1011
1990
Lewis, James. “Will Insley: Max Protetch Gallery,” Artforum, Summer 1990, p. 159.
1985
Ratcliff, Carter. “The Fragments from a Civilization,” Art in America, vol. 73, April 1985, pp. 150-159.
1984
Raynor, Vivien. “Art: Wil lInsley’s Visions of a Labyrinthine City,” The New York Times, Sept. 1984, Sec. C, p. 32.
Poirer, Maurice. “A Realm of Logic Insanity,” ARTnews, vol. 83, Nov. 1984, pp. 102-9.
Insley, Will, Will Insley: The Opaque Civilization, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1984.
1983
Glueck, Grace. “An Experimental Outpost Looks Back,” The New York Times, February 6, 1983, Sec. 2, p. 1, 29.
Poirer, Maurice and Jane Nicol. “The 60s in Abstract: 13 Statements and an Essay.” Art in America, vol. 71, Oct. 1983, pp. 123-137.
Lindner, Vicki. “Architecture”: The Arts,” Omni, vol. 6, October 1983, pp. 34, 222.
1980
Belford, Marilyn & Jerry Herman, eds. Time and Space Concepts in Art, Pleides Gallery, New York, 1980, pp. 57-78.
Bourgeois, J.L., “New York”, Artforum, vol. 8, Feb. 1980, p. 76.
1979
Insley, Will, Art- Architecture: Compasses, Locks, 1979.
Insley, Will, Onecity, 1979.
1977
Zimmer, William. “Heizer’s Circles: Insley’s City,” Soho Weekly News, vol. 4, May 26, 1977, p. 21.
1976
Sky, Alison and Michelle Stone. Unbuilt America, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1976, p. 138-40.
Johnson, Ellen H. Modern Art and the Object, Thames and Hudson, London, 1976, pp. 14, 79, 131.
Krugman, Michael. “Review of Exhibitions: New York,” Art in America, vol. 64, May-June 1976, pp. 72-73.
Perrone, Jeff. “Reviews: New York,” Artforum, vol. 14, April 1976, pp. 70-71.
1975
Thwaites, John A. “Exhibitions Abroad: Puzzles and Illusions,” ARTnews, vol. 50, Nov. 1975, pp. 78-79.
Wall, Donald. “Will Insley; Buildings / Fragments,” Arts Magazine, vol. 50, Nov. 1975, pp. 70-74.