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Hales Gallery: Andrew Bick : Systems for Hesitation - 8 May 2009 to 20 June 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Andrew Bick
OGV (Double Spider) Dirty A, 2009 Acrylic, pencil, oil paint, wax and watercolour on canvas |
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Andrew Bick Systems for Hesitation Private view: Thursday 7th May 6-8pm 8th May-20th June 2009 Hales Gallery is pleased to announce Andrew Bick�s third solo show with the gallery. Bick�s new exhibition Systems for Hesitation continues to explore notions of uncertainty, revision and adjustment. Using a varied selection of materials including oil paint and watercolour, marker pens and wax on linen or wood, the resulting paintings and drawings serve as ambiguous objects, solid things built out of contradictions. Bick engages with familiar polarities of painting; clashing elements of gestural passage with hard-edge abstraction or thick, rough and painterly with ordered and smooth. The title OGV (Original Ghost Variety), runs through the new sequence of works which borrow from the series Again made in 2005 and the subsequent Ghost paintings of 2006-08. Images of these earlier pieces have been projected on panels the same size to create a revised grid, from which the new paintings are built up in a complex sequence of decisions which Bick describes as a �stuttering system�. This under-drawing, which is often left exposed, is an important element in the work, providing each painting with a clear structure that makes the process of facture transparent. Past paintings involved a grid marked out in pencil, but within this new body of work, Bick has introduced centrifugal webs of line, sometimes made with coloured marker pen that bleeds though the layers of oil paint, creating off centre or clashing perspectives which draw the viewer into a disconcerting vortex. Bick's work has always been concerned with uncertainty as a subject as well as the humour found in the gap between language and visual object. Early titles such as For Dithering and For the Undecided, accompanied encaustic paintings of physical bulk and directness. The development of titles in his work since 1999, Loop, Disco, Disco Pants, Disco Vest, Panz and West, Variant, Trauser and Shirth, Variant Ghost, Retrial/Again, OGV (Original Ghost Variety), adds other warped layers to an already unsettled interaction between words and visual ideas. Andrew Bick is currently working on a Research Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds called Eccentric Construction. This project will lead to a curated exhibition Construction and Its Shadow at Leeds City Art Gallery in 2010 exploring the relationship between the important but largely neglected British Construction Artists of the 1950�s and 1960�s and contemporary practice. Bick is also included in an upcoming show Slow Magic at the Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool and an on going collaboration with MAKE Architects and Derwent London which is due to be realised by 2013. His most recent solo exhibitions were at Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, April 2008 and Von Bartha Garage, Basel, September 2008. |
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