WILL COTTON: AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER, PAINTINGS AND STUDIES

Ross + Kramer is pleased to present “An Affair to Remember, Paintings and Studies”, a solo exhibition of work by Will Cotton at the gallery’s Miami Beach location.

January 23 - March 1, 2025

The exhibition includes ten oil paint studies and one large scale painting, offering new insights into the artist’s detailed and extensive creative process.

Cotton’s meticulously rendered sugary landscapes, inhabited by cowboys and pastel pink unicorns, explore concepts of indulgence and excess while obscuring distinctions between masculinity, femininity, and sexuality. This certain level of ambiguity in Cotton’s contrasting subject matter invites viewers to relate to his paintings in ways that are wholly unique.

Inspired by a residency in Wyoming, Cotton’s series of cowboy paintings examines the fluidity of identity, pairing the classically rough and masculine American cowboy with mystical pink-hued unicorns.

Moreover, these works delve into the intricacies of one’s own relationship with self-identity and perception, with the cowboys and unicorns sharing moments of tenderness and care, seen in pieces such as “Reconciliation” (2019/2024) and “Shoeing” (2021), as well as moments of challenge and triumph in works like “Rejection” (2018/2024) and “Ascent” (2018/2024).