Greg Rook
Clyde Hopkins, Paintings 2000 - 2017

CLYDE HOPKINS - Paintings 2000 - 2017, 15th November - 12th December, Private View 14th November, 6 - 8pm, BLOND CONTEMPORARY, 7 Piccadilly Arcade, SW1Y 6NH.

Clyde Hopkins, Paintings 2000 - 2017
Greg Rook
Domus Meus

“… (the paintings are) tough and put together with a cool lightness of hand which conceals the lucid pictorial intelligence which has gone into their making.”

Domus Meus
Greg Rook
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.

Superama, GEORGE YOUNG
Greg Rook
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.

The 'Estate' of Stuart Cumberland

suzywilley

Just like that!.. there!

Just like that!.. there!

For the past 30 years Willey has used comic strips to investigate painterly concerns - edges, colours and brushstrokes. Willey plays with the consistency of oil paint, building up marks - in places almost like cake decoration. Some of the paintings follow abstract shapes which cause recognisable elements in the paintings to come in and out of focus - always seeming to reference strip cartoons. In others she applies this three dimensionsal treatment to the hyper flat imagery of Simpsons and Tintin stills.