Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce B. Wurtz: 13 works, opening October 30, 2025, at 545 West 20th Street. The exhibition is the second presentation of Wurtz’s work at the gallery, and the artist’s fifty-eighth solo show to date.

Drawn from the past seven years of work, the exhibition features a selection of pieces that have never before been publicly displayed: a group of hanging, floor-, and wall-based sculptures, a collagraph print, and Untitled (Assembly), 2023–2024, a tabletop presentation consisting of dozens of individual assemblages made from children’s blocks.

From the beginnings of his career in the early 1970s, Wurtz’s sculptures have incorporated found objects drawn from the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life. Through deft, alchemical interventions, Wurtz transforms his humble materials—empty cans of tuna fish, discarded lengths of 2 x 4 lumber, plastic bags, cotton socks—into discrete formal arrangements of remarkable levity and sophistication. Notable throughout Wurtz’s work is his ethic of directness: he leaves the individual recycled components of his work undisguised, presenting his found materials plainly and with minimal adornment. “I don’t like to obscure what a thing is,” Wurtz has said. “I like that it has a use value and that it keeps that little history with it.” That history can also change over time, as when items become obsolete or are revealed as painfully obvious pollutants of the planet.

Shaping Wurtz’s practice is a simple guideline: His sculptural materials invariably relate, directly or indirectly, to one of three basic human needs—sleeping, eating, or staying warm. (The lumber builds the homes that we sleep in; the socks cover our feet; the containers hold our food). From this loose rubric, his work becomes an intimate meditation on our habits of consumption. The pieces are unmonumental monuments to our contemporary condition—winsome, absurd, and fully human.

Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to represent B. Wurtz.