Blain|Southern To Close Worldwide Operation
After a tumultuous six months, Blain|Southern has decided to call it a day.
12 February 2020
Blain Southern
Michael Simpson: New Paintings
Blain|Southern presents Michael Simpson, New Paintings, the artist’s first solo exhibition at the London gallery. Simpson presents a significant body of new work including a group of large-scale Squint paintings.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Ed Moses & Qin Feng
Blain|Southern presents an exhibition that places the work of Ed Moses (1926-2018, Long Beach, California) and Qin Feng (1961, Xinjiang, China) in a conversation across cultures, conducted in a shared artistic language.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Keith Tyson – Enrique Martínez Celaya Two London Shows – Edward Lucie-Smith
If you want to take the temperature of the London art world, here are two places to do so. One is the show for Keith Tyson, at Hauser & Wirth. The other is an exhibition for Enrique Martinez Celaya at Blain/Southern. These two dealers rank very high amongst the international commercial spaces in London.
9 June 2019
Enrique Martínez Celaya: The Mariner’s Meadow
Blain|Southern London presents The Mariner’s Meadow, the gallery’s first exhibition with Los Angeles-based artist, Enrique Martínez Celaya. The exhibition unveils sixteen previously unseen paintings, in which the artist focuses on the sea and its relation to the human subconscious.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Joan Snyder: Rosebuds & Rivers
Joan Snyder’s (b. 1940, New Jersey, US) first solo exhibition in the UK. Comprising new and recent paintings, the exhibition will include a group of monumental triptychs and diptychs alongside smaller-scale works. It offers an insight into the experimentation and visual language for which Snyder is celebrated.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Bill Viola: Intimate Works
Bill Viola’s new exhibition at Blain|Southern presents small-screen works in an intimate context to reflect on the complex details of human relations and our attachment to the material world.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Bosco Sodi Brick By Brick – Interview Zoltan Alexander
One of my favourite galleries Blain Southern presented at the time the first exhibition of renowned Brooklyn based Mexican artist, Bosco Sodi.
17 February 2019
Bosco Sodi: Heavens and the Earth
An exhibition of new paintings by Bosco Sodi that demonstrates the artist’s ongoing exploration of transformative processes.
Tuesday to Saturday: 11am – 6pm
Chiharu Shiota: Immersive Elegant Scarlet Threads – Blain|Southern – Edward Lucie-Smith
Today London’s official art world is full of enthusiasm for so-called ‘minority art’, made by artists of guaranteed ‘minority origin’. On the whole, however, the artists so defined and officially promoted don’t come from Asia.
4 December 2018
Chiharu Shiota Unveils Spectacular New Work At Blain|Southern
Me Somewhere Else is a new exhibition featuring works by the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota at Blain|Southern London.
27 November 2018
Chiharu Shiota: Me Somewhere Else
Chiharu Shiota’s first exhibition at Blain Southern’s London gallery centres around a new site-specific installation, along with sculpture and works on canvas.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Sean Scully: Architecture Of The Sublime – Edward Lucie-Smith
Sean Scully is extremely widely known as a painter. Indeed, I might go so far as to say that he is as widely known as any contemporary painter now living.
4 October 2018
Sean Scully Overview Announced For Blain|Southern During London’s Frieze Week
A new exhibition of work by the Abstract painter Sean Scully titled, ‘Uninsideout’, featuring large-scale, multi-panel paintings, as well as works on paper, sculpture and a group of his celebrated Landline paintings has been announced by Blain|Southern
22 August 2018
Sean Scully: Uninsideout
A solo exhibition of works by Sean Scully to coincide with Scully’s recently announced exhibition Inside Out at Yorkshire Sculpture Park from 29 September.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Moshekwa Langa: Relatives
Moshekwa Langa is known for a shape shifting practice that manifests in virtually every medium and he brings his freewheeling process of loose association to the London gallery this summer.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Erkka Nissinen
The Lodger series continues with an exhibition by Erkka Nissinen, including work developed out of his presentation for the Finnish national Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, made in collaboration with Nathaniel Mellors.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Edward Kienholz: America My Hometown
America My Hometown traces Edward Kienholz’s formative years (1954-1967), showing an artist coming to terms with both his unique vision and the social climate of the US throughout this tumultuous era.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018 Round-Up – Paul Carter Robinson
Gallery Weekend Berlin has been rapidly evolving, over the past fourteen years, morphing into a leading international event, to be reckoned with.
2 May 2018
Gabriella Boyd: Help Yourself
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Wim Wenders: Early Works: 1964 — 1984
Early Works 1964-1984 at Blain|Southern London features Polaroids and black-and-white photographs from Wim Wenders’ archive, many of which have never been shown before.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Rachel Howard A Rising International Artist With Substance – Edward Lucie-Smith
Rachel Howard (b. 1969 in County Durham) is a rising star in the British art world, which is currently badly in need of new names.
23 February 2018
Rachel Howard: Der Kuss
An exhibition of Rachel Howard’s newest paintings and sculptures which focuses on internal and external violence, the violence of the mind and the body. Der Kuss, the kiss, is a delicate point of intimate contact, of love or betrayal.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Rachel Howard Exhibition Announced By Newport Street Gallery For February 2018
The Newport Street Gallery, a private museum owned by Damien Hirst will present an exhibition of work by British artist Rachel Howard (b.1969), opening 21st February 2018.
25 December 2017
Sophie Jung: Come Fresh Hell or Fresh High Water
The second in Blain|Southern’s new series of exhibitions, collectively titled Lodger, its curator Tom Morton has invited the artist Sophie Jung to develop a new sculptural installation, accompanied by a performance.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
James White: Bodies
An exhibition of new paintings by James White. White’s grey scale paintings explore everyday minutiae and hint at something that has happened or may occur.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Sean Scully To Be Represented By Blain|Southern London
The Irish/American Abstract Artist Sean Scully has announced that he is to be represented by Blain| Southern in London. This follows over twenty successful years with Timothy Taylor in Mayfair.
29 October 2017
Jake And Dinos Chapman – Suicide Vests And Contextualising Goya – Edward Lucie-Smith
The new show by Jake and Dinos Chapman at Blain-Southern – their first outing with this prestigious dealer, offers a full-on re-interpretation of Goya’s Disasters of War, plus, on pedestals in the centre of the room, some full-size bronze versions of suicide vests.
10 October 2017
Jake & Dinos Chapman: The Disasters of Everyday Life
For their first exhibition with Blain|Southern, Jake & Dinos Chapman present their newest body of sculptural work, expanding on their career-long preoccupation with Francisco Goya.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Playground Structure
The group exhibition Playground Structure takes its title from a 2008 photograph by Jeff Wall that depicts a climbing frame in a suburban park. Wall’s large-scale photograph will be exhibited with paintings from 1969 to the present day by Amy Feldman, Mary Heilmann, Rachel Howard, Jeremy Moon, Ed Moses, Joan Snyder, Daniel Sturgis and Dan Walsh.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Bernar Venet: Looking Forward 1961-1984
Bernar Venet, Looking Forward: 1961-1984 traces the development of the artist’s distinct conceptual mode, focussing on examples of works that were pivotal in defining his practice.
Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Mat Collishaw: Forms Of Illusion And Truth By Sue Hubbard
Desire is at the basis of most human behaviour from sex and procreation to the pursuit of beauty and death. According to Freud our psyches see-saw between the two conflicting points of Eros and Thanatos. Mat Collishaw has always been interested in origins and in what goes on behind the veil of social givens and norms.
8 May 2017