Wes Mills: Drawings

Montana-based Wes Mills’ new drawings are like complete thoughts that arrive spontaneously and unexpectedly, not as resolutions of an idea, but rather as clear, direct, and whole in and of themselves. Mills finds materials, like ideas, to be distracting. Hence he’s pared down his medium to essentially paper and graphite, with occasional use of pigment or ink. His small, spare drawings involve a minimum of form as well. Simple, isolated shapes or lines float on sandalwood-colored paper. The drawing becomes almost a foil to the neutral ground, as though Mills were trying to give shape and color to the space of a room, or to the quality of the mind in meditation.