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
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Foundations

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Blackbird Rook is presenting three artists with Foundations, an online fair curated by Artsy, spotlighting fresh works from galleries that discover and nurture rising artists. This year’s fair includes presentations from galleries in 36 countries, featuring exceptional talents whose practices deserve greater recognition.

Christina Barrera, Nick Devereux and Susan Metrican

Blackbird Rook presents...

Blackbird Rook presents...

Curated by Juan Bolivar, Visage presents artists who share a fascination with faces - not necessarily portraits or a likeness, but a fascination with the face as an indexical repository of style. Exhibiting artists: Christina Barrera, Juan Bolivar, Nicky Carvel, Mark Connolly, Cyan Dee, Oli Epp, Liam Fallon, Luis Rafael Galvez, Charlie Gray, John Greenwood, Des Lawrence, Rebecca Parkin, Anthony Piper, Miho Sato, Toby Ursell, Julie Verhoeven, Richard Wathen, Tom Worsfold.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Thank you to all artists and collectors for your continued support this year. We are looking forward to returning in January with the launch of a series of shows - both online and in physical space.

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Hopkins at Hepworth and Housley in Sheffield

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Hopkins at Hepworth and Housley in Sheffield

The Hepworth Collection acquired the painting ‘Seagulls, Brian Sewell, Kicking etc‘, 1992, by Clyde Hopkins. Blackbird Rook opened its first physical exhibition in collaboration with The Good Ship Presents and the Yorkshire Art Space in Sheffield.

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.