Icastica - 'Taverna' - We are Open - 27th June - 27th September 2015

Flavio Favelli, Hugo Canoilas, Salvatore Arancio, Alek O. Gintaras Didžiapetris, Ryan Gander, Gabriele De Santis, Vanessa Billy, Lupo Borgonovo , Nicholas Hatfull, Bedwyr Williams, Samara Scott, Åbäke, Santo Tolone, 
Tim Ellis , Karina Bisch. 

Curated by Ilaria Gianni

Autocatalytic Future Games

Autocatalytic Future Games

On a trajectory from Lascaux via aerosols, our bioaesthetic inheritance is cultivated beneath the inflated sun.  
An accretion of stenciled hands in the darkness, then a trillion painted surfaces.  

A group exhibition. A variation of structured gestures and analogue procedures. A compilation of paintings in 2015.  

Paintings selected by each artist. Exhibition created and organised by playpaint


Robert Dowling / Ben Cove / Gordon Dalton / EC / Michael Stubbs / Chris Godber / Sharon Hall / Tom Banks / Graham Carrick / Kiera Bennett / Alaena Turner / Louisa Chambers / Mari Reijnders / Phil Illingworth / Selma Parlour / Mimei Thompson / Alison Pilkington / Charley Peters / Andrew Seto / Melanie Carvalho / Alex Ball / Clare Price / Howard Dyke / Jessica Slater / Ross Walker / Rae Hicks / Gemma Cossey / Mandy Payne / Tamara Dubnyckyj / Tim Ellis / Maggie Hills / Greg Rook / Jonathan Parsons / Lucy Boyle / Simon Burton / Sarah Poots / Lisa Penny / Le Guo / Philip Jones / David Ryan / Andy Harper / Sophia Starling / Marielle Hehir / Simon Bill / Hogan Brown / Andrea Medjesi-Jones / Clare Chapman / Dan Coombs / Tom Ellis / Marcus Cope / Andris Walds / Virginia Verran / Cathy Lomax / Ian Baker / Lothar Goetz / Shaan Syed / Peter Lamb / Caterina Lewis / Paul Manners / Stephanie Moran / James Connelly / Oliver Bancroft / Lee Marshall / Kate Warner / Katie Pratt / Jason Hawkridge / playpaint / Kirsten Reynolds / Marta Bakst / Alexis Harding / Ben Cottrell / Caroline Hands / Gary Andrew Clarke / Jules Clarke / Katrina Blannin / Matthew Hunt / Rachel Levitas / Rob Leech / Andrew Graves / Charles Williams / Hannah Knox / John Tiney / Philip Allen / Simon Haddock / David Oates / Tim Allen / Lizzie LLoyd / Alli Sharma / Alex Dipple


Exhibition Continues / 11th - 14th + 17th - 21st June 1.00 - 6.00 pm

Contact / playpaint@live.co.uk

www.autocatalyticfuturegames.co.uk
www.noformat.co.uk


How to get to no format (Second Floor Studios & Arts);

By train from London Cannon Street or London Bridge to Woolwich Dockyard. Then a 12/15 minute walk to Warspite Road.

By tube on the Jubilee Line, or Docklands Light Railway to North Greenwich, then a 472 or 161 bus to Warspite Road.

By Docklands Light Railway to Woolwich Arsenal then a train to Woolwich Dockyard or the 161 bus to Warspite Road.

From Lewisham; 180 bus to Warspite Road.

From Peckham; 177 bus to Warspite Road.

By road from Greenwich or Woolwich along the A206 to Warspite Road. (There's plenty of free parking available).

By bike, a 25 minutes ride from Greenwich along the Thames tow path to Thames Barrier then a short detour via A206.

Tutti Frutti - Turps Banana - London

http://turpsbanana.com/blog

Carla Busuttil | Graham Crowley | Kaye Donachie | Tim Ellis | Nick Goss | John Greenwood | Erin Lawlor | George Little Katrin Mäurich | Charley Peters | Audrey Reynolds | Daniel Sturgis | Richard Wathen | James White 

Opening: 24th April 2015 6.30pm

Turps Banana painting magazine will launch its new exhibition space at the Aylesbury Estate in South East London, the inaugural show organised by Katrina Blannin, Juan Bolivar and Caterina Lewis.

The gallery ethos will echo that of Turps painting magazine whereby painters will curate exhibitions that reflect the energy, range and diversity within contemporary painting practice.

12a -13a Taplow, Thurlow Street, London, SE17 2UQ (entrance via stairwell and ramp on East Street)

Exhibition runs: 24th April – 24th May 2015

Opening times: Fridays & Saturdays (Thursdays by appointment)

For further information contact the gallery on gallery@turpsbanana.com or +44 (0)7866 946631

'Long Ting (No Long Ting)', Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland.

Niek Hendrix, Cedar Lewisohn, Kym Ward, Tim Ellis and David Salle.
17.01.2015 - 14.02.15

Long ting’ (No long ting’)* has evolved out of an on-going dialog between artists Cedar Lewisohn and Niek Hendrix relating to image appropriation within an art historical context. At what exact point does an appropriated image become that of the appropriator? This was previously a standard post-modern debate, often focusing on the political consequences of “images” being given new context. How has the advent of digital technology and communication affected this discussion? Viral images can now be made and viewed by millions of people around the world within minutes. The authors of such memes are often left anonymous as the image is repeatedly reposted. Where does all of this leave painters and image makers working today? Is the slow, considered nature of their practice merely a relic of a quaint, by gone age? Or should we be more optimistic about the possibilities of analog production in the meta-modern age? The artist will explore these questions and conundrums not only with artworks but also a series of new fictitious texts written by curator Huib Haye van der Werf. The idea of the texts is to inspire an alternative set of parameters though which the individual works and the show as whole can be seen. The artists in the exhibition all share similar concerns of authorship, historic and contemporary, but the selection also includes works with do not sit so smoothly into this narrative. The idea here is to disrupt a simple linear or conceptual understanding of the presentation, by either including work associated with a different generations (David Salle), or work with takes the notion of appropriation into the realm of corporate infiltration, using mediums such as performance and video (Kym Ward).

*Long ting: A phrase used to describe something that: a) Takes a long time b) Is tedious or stressful c) Doesn't interest you. Originates from London.

No long ting: A phrase used to say that everything will be fine. Originates from London.

Text based on works of the Jan van Eyck artists-in-residence by Huib Haye van der Werf, go to NEWS: http://www.ronmandos.nl/news

FIN - FOLD - LONDON

Dan Davis  Dominic Beattie  Finbar Ward  Kes Richardson  

Simon Callery  Tim Ellis  Valérie Kolakis 

Saturday 10th January - Sunday 25th January 2015

FOLD Gallery is pleased to announce our final show in Clerkenwell.  The exhibition consists of works by our represented artists and will link to works to be featured at London Art Fair 2015.

The premise of the exhibition is one of materiality and physical interventions that are employed by each artist, and the value – significance – that the material nature has for the viewer.  There is also an awareness that the audience is being pushed to the point where the idea of viewing is an actively involving process, not a traditionally passive one.

Works with canvas, wood, pigment, powders and plastics – are shown alongside works made from the most basic materials – scraps of plywood, sheets of stickers, marker pen and spray paint. Paintings with a central geometric motif subjected to varying levels of erasure, repetition and concealment are shown alongside paintings that protrude from the wall, paintings that sit on the floor and elegant concrete sculptures made from found objects. The ‘matter’ of the work invites the viewer to create a new encounter with it. A re-appropriation of material and positioning engages the viewer to question both the ‘matter’ behind the production of the work and also how it is displayed.

The exhibition describes a way of seeing particular to a group of artists whose work offers an understanding of physical space as conceptually constructed images. Drawing from a variety of sources from the industrial to the domestic, design and architecture, these artists present work where the image becomes an object in its own right. Perspective shifts, physical forms and surface texture engage the viewer offering a vision of abstraction. But through material and pictorial decisions a presence of something more is revealed. These works induce a meditative state questioning the relationship between image and object, and allow the possibility for something symbolic to appear.

The Opinion Makers II - 16th December 2014 to 11th January 2015 - London

Katrina Blannin with Kate Terry | Maurice Carlin with Jade Montserrat | Sue Cohen with Shona Davies and David Monaghan | Stephen Chambers RA with Simon Burton | Richard Ducker with Hannah Patching | Bella Easton with Juliette Losq | Zavier Ellis with Florian Heinke | Karl England with Daniel Devlin | Rebecca Fortnum with Beth Harland | Marcus Harvey with Edmundo Arigita | Bill Howard with Melanie Clifford | Keran James with John Summers | Reece Jones with Alex Gene Morrison | Stephen Lee with Christopher Barrett | Iavor Lubomirov with Daryl Brown | Janette Parris with Neal Tait | Artemis Potamianou with Wolfgang Berkowski | Julie René de Cotret with Robert Hengeveld | Carl Slater with Tom Lovelace | Benet Spencer with Tim Ellis | Peter Suchin with Julian Wakelin | Mark Titchner with Alexander Tucker and Daniel O’Sullivan


Private View: Tuesday 16th December, 6-9pm

Talk: Sunday 11th January

Exhibition Dates: 16 December 2014 to 11 January 2015, Tuesday to Saturday, 12-6pm
Address: Londonewcastle Project Space, 28 Redchurch St, London E2 7DP
Nearest Station: Shoreditch High Street (National Rail and Overground)

“Many artist-curators, curators and artists began their careers in artist run spaces; initially these spaces were established as an alternative to museums and galleries. In recent years Project Spaces have become part of the established art system and have been incorporated into large-scale exhibitions and biennials.” - Birchall & Mabaso, ONCURATING Issue 19

Artists choose art in a particular way, arguably their choices and interests are motivated or coloured by concerns within their own practice. Conversely, when curators or writers are practising and exhibiting artists in their own right, there is a potential opportunity to discover - through the medium of their art - curatorial and critical motives which are either consciously or subconsciously unavailable in an exhibition itself, nor in its supporting materials, such as press releases and articles. The Opinion Makers series of exhibitions is conceived as paired juxtapositions; each pair comprising one work by an artist who curates or writes, together with one work by an artist of their choice. It is a pragmatic attempt to use artists as curators as an explicit tool for understanding curation. It is also a statement about the significantly expanded presence of the artist-led approach in the contemporary art landscape. The Opinion Makers is organised by Iavor Lubomirov and Bella Easton – artists, curators and directors of the ALISN network and the LUBOMIROV-EASTON Project Space. The first Opinion Makers exhibition took place at Enclave Gallery in 2013. The second in this evolving series, presents at Londonewcastle Project Space the work of international, as well as UK artists, curators and critics, to give a glimpse of a rising global trend of artists devolving new organisational, curatorial and critical roles upon themselves.

100 Painters of Tomorrow - New York - 7th November to 8th December

NEW YORK BOOK LAUNCH & EXHIBITION

23 Warren Street (between Church & Broadway), New York, 10007.

Preview: Thurs 6 Nov 6-9pm / Exhibition: 7 Nov – 6 Dec, 2014

List of exhibiting artists: Henrietta Acloque, Leslie Baum, Dan Brault, Benjamin Brett, Andrew Brischler, Jorge Castellanos, BB Chokra, Tomory Dodge, Freya Douglas-Morris, Tim Ellis, Matilda Enegren, Michael Fanta, Robert Fry, Kate Gottgens, Shahryar Hatami, Hannah Hewetson, Alon Kedem, Jenny Kemp, Tamara K.E, Frank Maier, Tonje Moe, Gorka Mohamed, Caroline Mousseau, Mark Nader, Kaido Ole, Selma Parlour, Yelena Popova, Heriberto Quesnel, Omar Rodriguez-Graham, Andrew Salgado, Andrew Sendor, Nicola Staglich, Shaan Syed, Jirapat Tatsanasomboon, Leila Tschopp.

For sales inquiries and/or acquisitions for any of the works included in ’100 Painters of Tomorrow’ kindly email info@100paintersoftomorrow.com;

United in Different Guises CXCVIII

2014

Acrylic, cotton and bulldog clips

76cm x 45cm

United in Different Guises CCI

2014

Acrylic, cotton and bulldog clips

76cm x 45cm