Anja Ganster is in the Finalists' Exhibition of the Guasch Coranty International Painting Prize - exhibitors include Marko Blazo, Pedro Boese, Charlotte Brisland, Joaquim CantalozellaDiana Copperwhite, Marisa Favretto, Catherine Fiedler, Nina Ghel, Laura Green, Stefan Heizinger, Anne Hendrick, Alisa Margolis, Laura Pels Ferra, Silia Ka Tung.
12th June - 27th July 2008 http://www.guaschcoranty.com/
Matthew Murphy is in Through a Glass, Darkly for Kenny Shachter's ROVE Projects, curated by Annabel Emson 26th April - 25th May 2008 at Lincoln House, 33-34 Hoxton Square 07979 408914
Anja Ganster has been selected as a finalist for the Guasch Coranti painting prize, Barcelona. Also nominated are Marko Blazo, Pedro Boese and Juan Carlos Bracho.
[http://www.guaschcoranty.com ]
Jennifer Taylor is in Building Sites at theFrancis Hair Fashions Gallery, 12 artists exploring the theme of "Building Sites" through painting, writing, photography and installation.
The exhibition runs from 6th-28th October, Saturday & Sunday 1pm-6pm
Francis Hair Fashions Gallery is at 87 Nightingale Lane, Clapham South, London SW12 8NX
Sam Jury is in Decadence, Decay and the Demimonde, presented byAustin Enterprises at Home House, 92 George Street, London W1
The exhibition runs from 13th October - 11th November, 10am - 6pm Monday to Saturday, 2.30 - 6pm Sunday
Other artists involved include Heather & Ivan Morison, Julie Verhoeven, Annabelle Moreau, Emi Avora, Ruth Claxton and Francesca Lowe, Anna Genger and Juno Doran.
Wyer Gallery recommends Simon Lawson'sPrint(vb.v.)Gallery which is hosting an exhibition of Royal Academy Printmakers. The exhibition will feature some previously unseen works by:
Eileen Cooper RA
Chris Orr RA
Gary McDonald
Divyesh Bhanderi
Maurice Cockrill RA
Jean Cooke RA
Oran O'Reilly
Stephen Walter
Lloyd Durling
Simon Lawson
The exhibition runs from 19th September to 20th October 2007; Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10-5
Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool Street, London; 5 - 31 May 2007.
OPENING RECEPTION, Saturday 5 May, 6 - 8. Screenings in the Mason's Temple Saturday 5 - 6 May and 25 - 27 May, throughout the day.
The latest collaborative, site-specific work by Sam Jury and Jo Love is part of an ongoing series of works exploring the implications of crossing from private to public space and the nature of watching. We Are Just Watching will run in three sites in the Great Eastern Hotel: the rooms' internal TV Channel 19; the main lobby and the 19th century Masonic Temple and will comprise of looped video mimicking real time where characters play out, repeatedly, a mini Beckett style set piece of tragicomedy brought into corporate and leisure-time Britain.
Unadvertised to hotel guests, Channel 19 will run the 24 hour looped video of a four panel split screen shot from a ceiling height camera located in various hotel rooms and corridors. Shot in night vision, the scenes frequently feature empty spaces periodically interjected with mini dramas: two gentlemen in kilts going through a seemingly military routine; a man in suit, shoeless, repeatedly running down a hallway; women in bathroom robes lined up in some kind of procession and packs of businessmen in scenes of endearing group bonding. The viewer will find them only by chance, surfing the multitude of entertainment already on offer. In the Masonic Temple themes of ceremony and hierarchy will be played out to a single viewer anticipating the passive role of watcher. Lured into the space by an atmosphere of a show about to begin, the viewer is placed at the heart of the work with the tacit agreement between audience and performer abruptly broken.
System error: war is a force that gives us meaning - Palazzo Delle Papesse; Centro Arte Contemporanea
Gallery artist Sarah Bridgland is participating in System error: war is a Force that gives us meaning . The exhibition features the artwork of more than 40 international artists working in video, music, comics, flash animation, print, sculpture, installation, collage, t-shirts, and various other media and will explore the response of artists to the current period of expanded and endless wars, both and intense cross-border battles, and the quiet violence of "disappearances".
Artists in the show range from internationally established pioneers (Chris Marker, Walid Raad, Lebbeus Woods) to newer rising artists (Chris Koji Naka, Rheim AlKadhi, Yara el-Sherbini), as well as people who have never shown in the museum or gallery context (Chaleerat Ngamchalee, Manic Street Preachers). While many of these artists have exhibited at venues such as the Whitney Museum, Venice and Sydney Biennials, the two curators also discovered many of these works while attending protest rallies, going to concerts, browsing a comic book store, and surfing YouTube and Flickr. In the choice of artists, mediums and genres, this project represents a look at the future of politically engaged visual arts, both inside gallery walls, and on the streets of modern cities.
ARTfutures 8-14th March 2007
Work by Sarah Bridgland will be exhibited in this years ARTfutures, the Contemporary Art Society's annual exhibition which is intended to encourage new patrons of contemporary art. The exhibition features the work of approximately 130 artists and offers a snapshot of visual arts practice around the UK today.
Wyer Gallery is delighted to announce that Richard Moon will be exhibiting at the Engholm Engelhorn Gallery in Vienna later this month in an exhibition featuring an international program of artists including Michael Landy, Angela Dufresne, Claire Pestaille and Ged Quinn.
The show, entitled Salon Nouveau, proposes a temporary return to the salon hang. Dispensing with the pure aesthetic of linear narrative the gallery restores in its place a system of elaborate viewing patterns between works of contrasting size and subject matter hung cheek-by-jowl on the full face of the gallery's walls:
"The work of some 40 artists from 14 different countries is presented. Using the cover provided by the age-old mediums of paint and pencil, they ambush the traditional genres of art-making and take up Baudelaire's challenge to adopt the complexity of contemporary life as their subject. Images of royalty are thus replaced by the tales of celebrity, portraits of war heroes exchanged for depictions of terrorists and spies. Landscapes threaten, still lifes confuse, and religion, once rampant up and down the walls, is all but absent."
Sam Jury is currently exhibiting in New York at the Stephen Haller Gallery in A Woman on Paper: "a snapshot of contemporary artists working with a single subject (woman) and a common ground (paper)". The exhibition Includes work by artists such as Tracey Emin, Linda Stojak Doug and Mike Starn, Sue Williams, Susan Rothenberg, Rita Ackermann and Eric Fischl.
Jury's work plays upon the psychological inferences of being a spectator and mass consumer of information. in her close up reaction shots of female faces she debunks the purpose of portraiture by creating an exaggerated ‘type’ of woman or, indeed, an 'everywoman'.
October 12-15, 2006, 11am -8pm, serviced by luxury shuttle
Truman Brewery, 91-95 Old Brick Lane, London, UK E16QL
Wyer Gallery will be exhibiting work by Charlie England, Richard Galloway, Sam Jury, Richard Moon and Matthew Murphy next week at Scope International Art Fair at Brick Lane’s Truman Brewery.Scope London is returning for its third year as a booth fair to challenging passive viewing with 60 of the most significant emerging art galleries from across the globe, including Berlin, China, Mexico City, Japan, Iceland, Poland, USA and Canada. The hours of the fair are 11am to 8pm daily, serviced by luxury shuttle. Admission is £10. Scope is proud to present food and drink vendors from around the world.
Opening Night: Tuesday, October 10th, 5pm-8pm (A programme of special events is available on Scope's website)
Scope Exhibitors will open their doors to patrons around the world for a sneak preview of the fair while Haunch of Venison unveils their James Rosenquist show directly next-door.
Wyer Gallery is delighted to announce that RA gr aduate Richard Moon is through to the final of this year's John MooresCompetition with his painting, The Sitter [pictured]. This year holds the record for the highest number of applicants to the competition in 43 years with a total of 2,300 submissions to this year's jurors, who include Sir Peter Blake and Tracey Emin. Previous winners of the prestigious £25,000 prize include Peter Doig, Bruce McLean and, in earlier days, the likes of David Hockney and Richard Hamilton. Julian Treuherz, Keeper of Art Galleries for National Museums Liverpool, commented on this year's high number of entries, calling it "a fantastic endorsement of the John Moores which has been a pace-setter for British painting since 1957".
The competition produces Britain's leading contemporary painting exhibition, the John Moores 24, which this year coincides with the Liverpool Biennial and runs from 16th September to 26th November 2006 at the Walker Art Gallery. The five prize winners have been chosen and their names will be announced to the press on Thursday 14th September 2006. Richard Moon's debut solo show continues until the 12th July, 2006.