Art
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Just off a not-so-busy-not-so-quiet road in East London, Julia Sullivan has transformed the façade of our flat into a viewing atelier. Visible from the street, the solo exhibition, Fine, I Guess (2020) brings together work created by Julia during the last 6 months. These include collages, paintings, lino and screen prints. In the context of
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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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In the paintings in Wilderness, Layzell’s most recent show, flickers of colour emerge from dark backgrounds. Abstract greens and whites create landscapes from the corner of your eye. The painting facing the street, on the show-wall of Salon 91, shows an abstracted landscape. It is constructed with strokes of Barbie-pinks, deep foreboding purples, guttural greens
Rafael Powell 