NADA New York 2025

Addison Wolff’s paintings extend these ideas into two dimensions, using the canvas as a site of layering, erasure, and excavation. His linear mark-making—built up through stacked lines and bands of color—reveals both the visible present and the history underneath. The interplay of past and present, surface and background, mirrors the evolving nature of selfhood. By layering and partially obscuring what came before, he evokes how personal identity is continually shaped by memory, revision, and reinvention.

Each painting is framed with raised textures made from synthetic polymer and sand, applied with spackle knives and custom stencils. These impasto borders add a sculptural dimension, further blurring the line between object and image. Through the interplay of graphic foregrounds and linear backgrounds, Wolff creates visual environments that hold the same tension seen in his ceramics—between stasis and flux, clarity and ambiguity, past and present.