NYC Gallery Scene Round-Up February 2022 – Ilka Scobie
Omicron’s on the decline, the snow is grey and slushy, and the city unveils eclectic and exciting art.
3 February 2022
Archives: Reviews
Francis Bacon: Birth Copulation And Death – Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard
If there is one image that Bacon made his own above any other, it is the mouth contorted in a scream or grimace.
27 January 2022
Marvellous Icons: The London Jesuit Centre – Revd Jonathan Evans
The London Jesuit Centre and Farm Street Church currently have a marvellous exhibition of icons by Dr Irina Bradley, one of the leading iconographers in the UK.
23 January 2022
Leigh Bowery Still Entertaining And Relevant – James Payne
The performance artist Leigh Bowery died of AIDS-related illness on New Year’s Eve 1994 at only 33 years old. He didn’t tell anyone he was sick – except his best friend, Sue Tilley. When she asked him what she should tell people when he died, he said: “Tell them I’ve gone to Papua New Guinea”.
13 January 2022
George Rickey A Life In Balance – Clare Henry
George Rickey was a lone star who created new, mesmerising, enthralling sculptures defined by movement.
3 January 2022
And On An Art Note: End Of Year Diary 2021 – Revd Jonathan Evens
I was taken back to the roots of my love for the visual arts on a visit to galleries around Cork Street just before Christmas.
27 December 2021
Betsy Bradley: Chasing Rainbows – Ikon Gallery – Alice Lenkiewicz
I was pleased to be invited to review Betsy Bradley’s first solo exhibition, Chasing Rainbows, at Birmingham’s IKON Gallery.
12 December 2021
Albrecht Dürer Travels Of A Renaissance Artist – National Gallery London – Revd Jonathan Evens
Albrecht Dürer, himself, lived in Nuremberg throughout his life but made several significant European journeys.
11 December 2021
Arcadia: Grove Square Galleries The Marchioness of Bath Beckons – Simon Tarrant
The first black Marchioness in British history – beckoned the art world last week to a charity art auction hosted by London’s latest art house, Grove Square Galleries.
8 December 2021
Diasporan Identities: Life Between Islands Caribbean British Art – Tate Britain – Revd Jonathan Evens
Stirring it up or creolisation is taken by this exhibition as a defining characteristic of British Caribbean artists.
5 December 2021
Chris Gollon: Gimme Some Wine – IAP Fine Art – Mary Rose Beaumont
Gollon’s work should be seen in the context of North European Painting. He is heir to the tradition which produced painters such as Breughel and Bosch
2 December 2021
Lubaina Himid: So Many Competing Ideas Tate Modern – Sue Hubbard
She’s the oldest artist to have won the Turner Prize (she is now 67). Born in Zanzibar, Lubaina Himid returned
30 November 2021
Paula Rego: An Intimate Look – Victoria Miro
The artwork of Paula Rego, whose career spans an impressive half-century, has been largely informed by her childhood in Portugal, the tension of her conservative upbringing with the looser morals of her London experience at the Slade school of art, and her relationship with her parents.
29 November 2021
Damien Hirst A Mass Floral Tribute – Fondation Cartier Paris – Lee Sharrock
It came as a surprise to learn that ‘Cerisiers en Fleurs’ (‘Cherry Blossoms’) is Damien Hirst’s museum exhibition in France
20 November 2021
Isamu Noguchi: Socially Engaged Art – Barbican Centre – Revd Jonathan Evens
Isamu Noguchi thought art should improve the way people live and believed sculpture could ‘be a vital force in our everyday life.
20 November 2021
Pablo Bronstein: A This-World Vision Of Hell – Revd Jonathan Evens
The work and practice of Pablo Bronstein addresses two common misconceptions. The first concerns art and is to do with the perception that the contemporary art world no longer teaches, values or rewards the traditional skills of drawing.
16 November 2021
Laura Knight Documenting A Long Forgotten Britain – Sara Faith
Through its latest exhibition, Laura Knight MK Gallery hopes that a new generation will discover the work of this artist
9 November 2021
Bosco Sodi: In The Beginning Of Wisdom – Revd Jonathan Evens
The Konig Gallery. This is an appropriate space for the display of Bosco Sodi’s work which is taken from the ground and made on the ground.
3 November 2021
Women in Abstraction / Alice Neel People Come First – Guggenheim Bilbao – Paul Carter Robinson
Two exceptional touring exhibitions have converged at the Guggenheim Bilbao, one from the Centre Pompidou titled ‘Women in Abstraction’. The other is a retrospective exhibition of the New York figurative painter Alice Neel titled, ‘People Comer First’.
26 October 2021
Lucy McKenzie Master Of Trompe-l’œil Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
It’s a challenging and wonderful exhibition by a woman artist, Lucy McKenzie, Glasgow born, Brussels – based
23 October 2021
George Condo Lockdown Works Hauser & Wirth – Revd Jonathan Evens
There is an explosion of paint at Hauser & Wirth in the latest exhibition by George Condo. The energies of emergence and encounter surge…
23 October 2021
Theaster Gates Clay As A Profound Metaphor – Revd Jonathan Evens
In the beginning, there was Clay. Clay was without form. Thus begins Theaster Gates’ ‘A Clay Sermon’,
19 October 2021
Reflection A Journey Through Sunlight The Cello Factory Review
One of the notable characteristics of The Cello Factory is its copious natural light making it the perfect space for the “Reflection” exhibition, and the show has unique qualities that set it apart. Many of the works aim to intrigue the visitor through their surfaces and colours changing as one’s viewpoint moves, while others transform according to the changing light in the gallery and some do both.
17 October 2021
Mark Rothko: Mesmerising And Intimate Works On Paper – Revd Jonathan Evens
Among Mark Rothko’s artistic philosophies, he held that painting was a deeply psychological and spiritual experience
10 October 2021
Farsad Labbauf Revisiting Fragments and Entities – Isa Freeling
Do not miss Artist Farsad Labbauf’s new show ‘Revisiting Fragments and Entities’, which opened recently in Chelsea at Roya Khadjavi Projects
8 October 2021
Duncan Grant An Enigmatic Bohemian Rhapsody – Marina Vaizey
The artist Duncan Grant (1885-1978) was a charismatic, much-loved central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, a collection of friends, including the writer Virginia Woolf, the critic Clive Bell, the painter Vanessa Bell – Virginia’s sister – and the deeply influential economist and writer Maynard Keynes that has fascinated scholars and readers for decades. Their intertwined relationships and sexualities, not to mention intellectual and artistic achievements, have proved of lasting fascination from the latter half of the 20th century and on into the present, with an ever-growing audience nourished by academic studies, major biographies, popular books and exhibitions.
5 October 2021
Turner Prize 2021: A Collective Experience – Sue Hubbard
In a year dominated by the pandemic, it was decided not to award the Turner Prize to an individual but to a collective.
2 October 2021
The Last Temptation of Christo – L’Arc de Triomphe: Wrapped – James Payne
James Payne has been to Paris to see Christo’s wrapping of L’Arc de Triomphe.
Napoléon’s monument to himself has been turned into a memento mori for our times, and Le petit caporal would not have approved.
1 October 2021
Emily Speed: Body Architecture Tate Liverpool – Alice Lenkiewicz
Emily Speed’s new exhibition at Tate Liverpool is based upon the human body and related very much so to architecture.
28 September 2021
Rebound Ramblings: New York City Art Week 2021 RoundUp – Ilka Scobie
With major as well as offbeat art fairs, ranging from the Armory at the massive Javits Center (where I last went for my Covid vaccination) to tiny storefronts selling transgressive signage
19 September 2021
Brash Is Beautiful – Yinka Saves The Day At Royal Academy Summer Show
Held every year since the Summer Exhibition is the world’s oldest submission exhibition with works selected and hung by Academicians.
16 September 2021
International Autumn Art Exhibition Reviews – Revd Jonathan Evens
Periodic reviews of exhibitions around the globe can highlight a range of work in a range of styles in many different galleries.
16 September 2021