tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39317271394983118502024-02-19T03:43:43.233+00:00(fundamental) PAINTINGUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931727139498311850.post-64075286282287257792013-07-31T09:58:00.000+01:002013-07-31T09:59:17.976+01:00Patricia Treib <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Confident, bold, fluid mark making characterizes much of
Patricia Treib’s work. Forms slip and slide; calligraphic brushstrokes moving
forwards and back. Discrete marks relate to one another in interesting ways and
give the feeling of a shifting viewpoint. Treib’s are dynamic works that unfold as they are
scrutinized; sometimes difficult to pin down they are reliably intriguing. </div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931727139498311850.post-37553684366974020272013-07-30T13:25:00.001+01:002013-07-30T13:29:21.967+01:00Alice Browne<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Alice Browne’s work has a pleasing directness. This is not vague abstraction. Compelling forms are described in strong colour. Brushstrokes are forthright; labour is clear. Within quite limited parameters she manages to do a lot. The
way colour interacts is clearly important; structures serve both to demarcate and
to bring together areas of brushwork. Many of her compositions have a sense of ‘rightness’
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It is clear that the physical act of making is central to Greene’s practice. Paint isn’t a means to an end; it is the end in itself. His works are grubby relics to time spent exploring. They demonstrate investment; their surfaces describing a journey. There are layers; there is movement and marks are abundant but there is never too much. Central forms are assured; they demark and define space, serving to combine distinct elements in the creation of a whole. Greene’s are confident works; they don't just hold together, they resonate. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931727139498311850.post-66108493589582499932012-08-10T09:54:00.005+01:002012-08-10T10:16:59.942+01:00Peter Joseph<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Peter Joseph’s work rewards those
interested in painting; it is subtle, charming and it looks good. While certainly
admirable qualities charm and subtlety alone don’t make paintings remarkable.
It is the trickiness of Joseph’s pictures that makes them resonate. A lot is
done within purposefully limited parameters. Ostensibly uncomplicated in nature
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of Painting’s great strengths is its frankness: pigment applied to support;
paint on a surface. It is not reliant on technology and it requires neither
specialist knowledge nor mastery of esoteric technique. (Although of course it
does not preclude these things.) This simplicity and openness is the likely reason
it has endured and will, undoubtedly, continue to endure. The scope for variety
and invention is massive while the basic foundations of the medium remain secure.
For me painting is about making and looking; process and the visual. It is a discipline
which relies on these two factors and as long as they remain relevant so too
will it.</span> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931727139498311850.post-29929139545239534322012-02-26T09:50:00.006+00:002013-07-29T11:07:57.131+01:00Chris Shaw<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In Chris Shaw’s painting the process of paring down manages to concentrate rather than diminish. Idea and method meld as one; the physical and the conceptual combining in the most pleasing way. His practice is as much sculpture as it is painting; his works cast and assembled rather than rendered. Paint is manipulated after it has dried in the most considered way. These are methodical, meticulous works; self-consciously concerned with process and Painting’s past. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They manage to be both deadpan and theatrical; purposefully spare with flourishes that allude to something a little more frivolous (the ephemera of parties, drapery and costume in the case of the work shown here). Shaw’s is thoughtful work well made. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Paul Behnke’s paintings don’t skirt around the issue. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Subtlety is not their mode. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">His is full frontal painting; bold, engaging, direct. It is painting that deals with the strengths of painting itself. It is work about method and significant form; work that displays the process of the artist and rewards the viewer’s gaze. It may not always be fashionable to make work that is so specifically concerned with visual experience; but if it is good (and Behnke’s is) it will always be valid. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931727139498311850.post-81527809512192579682011-10-28T17:59:00.000+01:002011-10-28T18:10:43.442+01:00Kim Van Someren<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On first glance Kim Van Someren’s output may not appear to fall within my remit. She doesn’t make paintings for a start. I am not, however, going to be constricted by my own title.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Van Someren’s works have much about them to admire. I like the labour, I like the quality of mark and I like the vehicle. Forts are evocative; they have interesting connotations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The danger with charming work is that it can veer towards tweeness; fortunately Van Someren’s prints are forthright enough for this not to be an issue. Subject doesn’t eclipse the essential qualities of the pictures. They are robust and have a satisfying clarity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931727139498311850.post-85873031425814050162011-10-24T11:12:00.003+01:002011-10-24T17:31:50.076+01:00Vincent Hawkins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Seemingly compelled by a need to move forward Vincent Hawkins’ paintings are characterised by a feeling of experimentation that borders on restlessness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This unwillingness (or perhaps inability) to settle means Hawkins’ practice is never static, never predictable. This is, of course, a great strength. Constant questing is risky but success makes it worth it and Hawkins’ hit rate is high. Paintings take from their predecessors, processes adapt and morph and the results are exciting. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931727139498311850.post-70134361747962274172011-08-02T20:32:00.004+01:002013-07-29T11:08:59.887+01:00Guy Yanai<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a relaxed elegance to Guy Yanai’s paintings. A feeling of warmth and good light pervades. Characterised by a patchwork of shapes his works are assembled in a way that is both purposeful and deliberate. Blocks of solid colour butt up against one another describing surfaces and space; the skill with which they are balanced making the paintings resonate. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is bright, sharp, observant painting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This size combined with bold, flat colour makes for work which on first glance appears quite competitive. These are not however art billboards selling abstraction. The imagery is at odds with the rest of the package. Bloated, bulbous abstract forms don’t bring home a message; they do not tell you something you need to know. Instead Bradley’s structures compete with the slickness of their execution. They remain elusive. Graphic yet slippery they seem intentionally obscure; like diagrams that fail to explain. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have seen Julian Wakelin’s work in a number of shows recently and it never fails to make an impact on me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wakelin’s brand of abstract painting is scruffy and quite modest; but it is not casual. Careful consideration is evident. When making paintings like this it is very easy to fail; the purposefulness of this work should not go unrecognised. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These are concentrated paintings but they are far from laboured or arduous. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are works with a visual hook, images which intrigue without necessarily offering answers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They are artworks that could only exist as abstract paintings. </span></div>
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bright, light and playfully inventive in a way that looks easy but patently isn’t; Philip Miner’s paintings exude warmth in every way possible. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They seem to be the joint product of good-nature and good weather. Strong colours are employed impeccably, balanced in a way that ensures they resound. Lightness does not mean lightweight however and Miner’s compositions are not simply superficially stylish. A kind of problem solving is clear within them, a ready intelligence, and it is this which makes them so convincing.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931727139498311850.post-6354642050332322042011-04-24T18:15:00.003+01:002013-07-29T11:10:00.032+01:00Damien Flood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">At first glance the most striking thing about Damien Flood’s recent paintings (and the theme that connects them,) is a feeling of other-worldliness. Much of the imagery has something of the sci-fi about it; bleak unpopulated environments (land, space and sky); unclear and often ominous. They are depictions of curious places that don’t throw up conclusive answers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On one level Flood is exercising one of painting’s great facilities; he is creating alternate worlds, painting the mythic and mystical. While this is undoubtedly part of the reason his paintings are so compelling anyone who has read any of my previous musings on painting will know that this is not chiefly where my interests lie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of primary interest to me is the economy of Flood’s methods in relation to the end result. What he manages to achieve with his approach. The use of paint is skilful and succinct and the success of the work is a result of this. Unfussy brushstrokes are not simply servants of the subject, they are of equal (if not greater) importance to the scene they represent. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Painting itself is being explored. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The indeterminate settings are a contributing layer, but it is the fashion with which they are rendered and the physical end result which resonates principally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Bold and tactile, Inga Dalrymple’s works manage lusciousness while maintaining clarity and direction. While often definably representational in nature (houses, vases, mugs and jugs are common motifs) it is clear that the reality of paint is of primary importance here. Extraneous narrative does not divert and it is not needed. </span></div>
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Ramshackle. Urgent. Engaging. Really good.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3931727139498311850.post-58923461888796236142010-09-24T22:52:00.008+01:002011-01-05T19:10:33.042+00:00Clem Crosby<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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