Andy Woll has a gestural style that verges on abstraction. His works depicting horses relate to a personal relationship with the animals as the artist devotes a lot of time observing their form in the paddock, grooming, and exercising horses at his home in California. The works speak to Woll's ability to capture these animals in a very limited number of marks and a focused color palette. He equates the use of his brush as an artist to the direct use of a brush while grooming a horse. Each maps out the line and form of the animal’s body. The proportion of the horses also formally meets the formal qualities of gestural abstraction more so than other animals. They have become somewhat of a motif of the artist, speaking to both his artistic practice and investigations into painting as well as his wider life and interests. The title of the exhibition A Green Horse is in reference to A Grey Horse by George Stubbs, painted in 1793. Woll is directly influenced by Stubb’s famous depictions of horses, especially the references to the sleek and sinewy frame and musculature of these animals. 

Gallery address: Unit 612, Remex Centre, Wong Chuk Hang