About Wyatt Bunce
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2010 - 2014
Stanford University
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Biography
I make paintings that explore the humor and weight of everyday life, often through strange interiors, exaggerated postures, and quietly surreal events. Figures bend unnaturally, objects hover or overtake the room, and time seems suspended — like a moment cut from a story extending off of the canvas.
My work draws from domestic spaces, early cartoons, and the quiet theater of being alone. I’m interested in how a simple room can feel infinite and universally nostalgic, how a piano or showerhead can become a character, and how the line between funny and sad is often foggy. Every painting is an invitation into a slightly altered version of the familiar — a place where gravity is unreliable and feelings leak through the floorboards.
I paint with a mix of precision and play: some works are measured and architectural; others are freehand, imperfect, and alive with gesture. I like when those worlds blur — when clean lines contain chaos, or when a messy figure feels totally at home in a carefully framed room.
At the heart of it, I’m chasing warmth, humor, and that which is both new and familiar.
Raised in the Idaho mountains where I was a competitive snowboarder, I currently practice my art in Los Angeles, California.
My work draws from domestic spaces, early cartoons, and the quiet theater of being alone. I’m interested in how a simple room can feel infinite and universally nostalgic, how a piano or showerhead can become a character, and how the line between funny and sad is often foggy. Every painting is an invitation into a slightly altered version of the familiar — a place where gravity is unreliable and feelings leak through the floorboards.
I paint with a mix of precision and play: some works are measured and architectural; others are freehand, imperfect, and alive with gesture. I like when those worlds blur — when clean lines contain chaos, or when a messy figure feels totally at home in a carefully framed room.
At the heart of it, I’m chasing warmth, humor, and that which is both new and familiar.
Raised in the Idaho mountains where I was a competitive snowboarder, I currently practice my art in Los Angeles, California.
