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Frith Street Gallery: STILL - 29 June 2012 to 15 Sept 2012 Current Exhibition |
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STILL 29 June - 15 September 2012 Rodney Dickson, Judith Eisler, Josephine Halvorson, Secundino Hernández, Jeff Keen, Matt Saunders Frith Street Gallery is please to present a group exhibition evoking ideas of stillness and cinematic space and inspired in part by Michel Houellebecq's The Map and the Territory 2012. Still showcases a group of painters whose work is rarely seen in Britain. The works in the exhibition are grouped in three sections: CREATING AND DESTROYING PAINTINGS The paintings of Secundino Hernández (b 1975, Spain) show the relationship between life as it is lived and as it is painted. The attempt to link both is at the core of his work - a never-ending search for an answer to resolve the conflict between reality and the work of art. Hernandez's works were recently shown at ARCO, Madrid 2012. The nuanced oil paintings of Rodney Dickson (b 1956, N Ireland) are made up of accretions of previous paintings and traces of imagery, now mostly obscured. This ruthless practice of constant creation and destruction imbues the work with life and history. Dickson recently returned from a residency in China, where he was entranced by the quality of mist on the landscape, using it as the basis for a new series of paintings. Dickson won the 2011 Pollock-Krasner Award. PAUSE BUTTON The legendary underground filmmaker Jeff Keen (b 1923, England) worked as a postman in Brighton in the 1960s, making films in his spare time with family and friends in an ensemble cast. Embracing American Pop imagery, comics and later Punk, Keen painted and made films using a stop frame animation process. He often explored his experiences as a survivor of World War II, as well as the artist's internal struggle. His films and paintings use invented characters and brands, such as Rayday Films, in a fractured narrative style. Keen's work will be exhibited at Tate Modern in October. Judith Eisler (b 1962, USA) is currently Professor of Painting at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her work was included in He Painting of Modern Life at The Hayward Gallery in 2007. Now New York based, the artist draws on film as source material, pressing the pause button, shooting the image with her camera, and then painting the still - in this case showing the actress Gloria Swanson. Matt Saunders (b 1975, USA) trained as a painter at Yale, lives in Berlin and is currently teaching at Harvard. Inspired by archival television shows and avant-garde film, Saunders recasts this cinematographic iconography into paintings, themselves transformed into compelling photographs and animations. He had a solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society, Chicago in 2010. STILL Josephine Halvorson (b 1981, USA) is a plein-air painter, currently at work on a series of paintings related to disused lumber extraction equipment near the Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee. "For this show I'd like to exhibit three or four paintings related to the same site, that represent a slightly new direction for my work," she says. One of her first paintings was exhibited in a group show, Americanana, at New York's Hunter College, alongside a barnacle-covered bronze butter churn by Robert Gober. Still is curated by Peter Fleissig For further information please contact Dale McFarland on [email protected]. |
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