Kim Baker, Louisa Chambers, Lisa McKendrick, Ben Walker
Curated by Ruth Solomons
18 February - 11 March 2012
Gallery open Fri-Sun 12-6pm
Private View and launch of Garageland 13: Paint:
Friday 17 February, 6-9pm
The eye of a needle, represents an allegorical portal of impossibility through which the participating artists employ symbology, gesture, and playfulness to push their subject matter. Their resulting works abound with multiple meanings and a rich visual complexity.
Kim Baker distils her subject matter through a series of sensory interpretations of colour and lyrical form. Her paintings expand this beyond an initial formal approach to gestural expressive brushwork, into an intense grappled world of floral painterly complexity.
Louisa Chambers paintings seem to present an alternative universe where authoritarian structures of technology/science fiction are hijacked by absurd anthropomorphic embellishment. A feature about Chambers' work by Ruth Solomons is featured in Garageland 13: Paint.
Ben Walker narrows his source material to convey an emotional response through painterly expression, erasing all but the most profound and essential details.
Lisa McKendrick fills her paintings with quixotic imagery, which wilfully resists the laws of physics and eludes a readable narrative.
Transition Gallery
25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8 4QN
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