CLYDE HOPKINS - Paintings 2000 - 2017, 15th November - 12th December, Private View 14th November, 6 - 8pm, BLOND CONTEMPORARY, 7 Piccadilly Arcade, SW1Y 6NH.
Domus Meus
The Hog’s Back
Superama, GEORGE YOUNG
This new body of paintings combines aerial landscapes and floating shapes - figuration, colour-fields, texture and abstraction. ‘Kites' are seen from above - painted with brush, roller and airbrush. They are textured and evidence process and changes in direction through overlapping layers. They show clean, machine-like fades and colour blocks that overwrite thoughts, mistakes and past potential futures.
The 'Estate' of Stuart Cumberland
When we talked about his current position relative to his painting, his reference to a previous Stuart Cumberland as the author of the work suggested that there might be rich parallels to be drawn between working with Cumberland’s painting, working with an artist’s estate and questions of authorship around painting and post-conceptual painting in particular.
Wail
Resistance is Held in the Body - new paintings by Hannah Murgatroyd
PET - new paintings by Zoe Spowage
Blackbird Rook presents
'Value Value Value’ brings together 9 artists whose work shows a willingness to collapse and renew recognisable authorship - artists who work so continuously on an artwork that often nothing recognisable of the artist’s hand remains - artists who lose themselves so completely in the activity that they become more synonymous with the chosen tool in the labour of making, than the final artwork itself.
SUSAN METRICAN
I am drawn to images and objects that resonate across seemingly disparate cultures and time periods. As a Thai American raised mostly in the midwest, I am interested in imagery that is “culturally familiar” through its connection to folktales and shared traditions, particularly imagery that evokes a reverence for rural life. Susan Metrican