John Wesley, Painter of Pop-Inflected Paintings with a Bite, Dies at 93

John Wesley, a painter whose bizarre, beguiling figurations were shot through with eros and anxiety, has died at 93. According to his longtime New York gallery Fredericks & Freiser, the artist died on Thursday morning.
“He was an elegant, kind, and funny man who will be greatly missed,” the gallery wrote in a statement posted to social media.
Wesley’s paintings feature visions based on images scene in mass media that he copied and then modified until they fit his preferred