Exhibition Review
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With colour washes that cause form to merge with form like a colourfield entropy – the natural move of all things towards decay, to oneness – Antonia Showering is a formidably capable painter and first on The A R T S E I S T’s young artists spotlights. A Slade School of Art MA graduate,
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Published on THE SEEN “I’m always destroying,” the late Kathy Acker said in an interview at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (ICA) in 1986, “To hell with the word deconstructing. I’m always destroying, you know, rigidities, habitual meanings, habitual contents.” Coming full circle from that interview, I,I,I,I,I,I,I, Kathy Acker, the first UK exhibition dedicated to her work
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Published on the A r t s i e s t Faith Ringgold at Serpentine Gallery, London Faith Ringgold Serpentine Gallery 6th June – 8th September 2019 By Rafael Powell On the 8th of October 1930, in Harlem Hospital New York, Faith Ringgold was brought into the world, presumably kicking and screaming. Since then, she’s
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Published on The A R T S E I S T Hyon GyonParasol Unit Foundation For Contemporary Art, London 23 January – 31 March 2019Rafael Powell Bringing together paintings, sculptures and works that straddle that line, Gyon’s works are typically brightly-coloured, dark, disarmingly intimate windows into an unconscious world. Alive with fiery energy, the show’s
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Lisa Brice’s (b.1968) practice explores the relationships between authors and images. Interested in the representation of women by male artists, Brice recreates and thus re-authors images from the artistic cannon. ‘Untitled’, by Brice, was painted to respond to ‘Parting at Morning’ (1981) by William Rothenstein (1872-1945), which hangs in the Tate. With an altered palette
Rafael Powell 