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Vane: Narbi Price - Shan't Quit || Suppose An Eyes - 19 Sept 2013 to 26 Oct 2013 Current Exhibition |
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Narbi Price, Untitled Shadow Painting (CE), 2012
acrylic on canvas 91x122cm |
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Shan’t Quit Narbi Price 19 Septemberto 26 October Wednesday to Saturday 12:00pm to 5:00pm For his solo exhibition, ‘Shan’t Quit’, Narbi Price presents a series of paintings and lithographic prints of the locations of the Whitechapel, London, ‘Jack The Ripper’ murders of 1888, based on photographs of the sites as they are today. Using the forensic information from the time, Price was able to take photographs accurate to within 30cm of the exact sites, now variously car parks, schoolyards, loading bays, etc. There is no immediate indication to the viewer of the depicted sites’ histories. The only acknowledgement is that the works’ titles are suffixed with the victims’ initials in brackets – making it possible to decode the provenance of the locations. Once the viewer knows the history of the depicted site, the reading of the painting changes irrevocably. Price invites rumination upon the contrast between the histories of any given site and the mundanity of the experience of it – an effect heightened by the mediation of the painting process. Price has a strong interest in the perceived histories of locations and how painting can question the understanding of architectural and pictorial space. He is particularly concerned with challenging the conventions of photographically derived painting both in terms of paint application and composition, and in blurring the line between the figurative and the abstract. From a distance the paintings appear photographic in their realism, but when approached dissolve into a combination of gestural, loose brushwork and hard edge, flat colour planes. The series of prints presented signifies something of a shift in both Price’s approach to the drawing process and in sequential working. It is also the first time that he has revisited images previously used to make paintings to transcribe them into print. Produced at the Newcastle based Hole Editions print studio, the collaborative nature of working in lithography and the heightened familiarity with the images due to the length of time spent with them required by the process, imbues these prints with a technical assurance and thoughtful confidence. Price’s use of disparate techniques and deliberately disharmonious compositions push the works to the point where they teeter on the edge of dissolution. His intention is to produce a subtly disorientating effect in the viewer – there is an awkwardness or sense of unease about the images, but it is not immediately obvious why. Narbi Price was born Hartlepool, UK, in 1979 and lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He studied BA Fine Art at Northumbria University (1999-2002) and MFA, Newcastle University (2008-10). He was a prize winner in the John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool in 2012. Recent exhibitions include ‘Luminous Language’, Launch F18, New York, USA (2013), ‘Paper#3’, Paper Gallery, Manchester, ‘neo:artprize’, neo:gallery22, Bolton, ‘Six by Four’, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol, ‘Omnia Mea Mecum Porto: Works on Paper’, Kotti-Shop, Berlin, Germany ‘Arte Fiera’ (with Marc Bijl), GalleriaSIX, Bologna, Italy (2012). Suppose An Eyes Lady Lucy Jacqueline Utley Flora Whiteley 19 September to 26 October Wednesday to Saturday 12:00pm to 5:00pm Preview: Wednesday 18 September 5:30-7:30pm An international touring exhibition that takes its title from American poet, novelist and art collector Gertrude Stein’s modernist, abstract text, Tender Buttons (1914), a group reading of which provided the catalyst for the project. As the text approaches its centenary the three artists are testing its relevance to contemporary art practice. They have used it as a catalyst for discussions, cross-referencing Stein’s textual abstraction with their own practices. Lady Lucy takes her fascination with collected print material into a new dimension as she looks at the source of her source material in The Price is Marked inside the Book, a slideshow documenting the last year in the shelf life of a soon-to-be-closed second hand bookshop. Recent painting and drawing works employ layering and double pictorial references in a sort of ‘battle’ of imagery. Jacqueline Utley has used collage and watercolour as the basis for her new series of small-scale oil paintings, which disrupt both composition and judgements. In this exploration of possible counter-narratives, she has used household furnishing catalogues of rooms and observations of everyday found still-life objects/ornaments and flowers. Flora Whiteley looks to Stein’s usage of her own domestic surroundings as the building blocks of her abstract writing. Applying this approach to paintings and drawing on disparate images of interiors and collections, whilst simultaneously using her paintings as ‘backdrops’ and ‘props’ she explores how objects in space create a form of open ‘abstract’ dialogue with each other and the audience. The exhibition tour started at Galerie Futura, Berlin (11 May – 14 June 2013) then travelled to Transition Gallery, London (20 July – 11 August 2013). An exhibition catalogue has been produced in collaboration with Berlin-based designer Annette Knol to accompany the tour and will be available from the gallery. Jacqueline Utley: Recent group exhibitions include ‘Stardust Boogie Woogie’, Monika Bobinska, ‘Prognostic Bridewell’, APT Gallery, London (2010). She was an exhibition finalist in the FringeMK Painting Prize, Milton Keynes (2009). Her work was part of the group show ‘BLANK PROMISCUITY’, Deptford X, London (2012). Flora Whiteley: Recent activity includes ‘Better Place Portraiture’ performed with Darren Banks at the Barbican, London (2010), ‘The Nail, the Colours, the Mast’, co-curated with Tim Greaves and Christopher Rollen, The Kotti-Shop, Berlin (2012), and ‘Luminous Language’, Launch F18, New York (2013). Lucy Woollett aka Lady Lucy: Recent projects and exhibitions include: ‘The Court Portraits’, Spacex, Exeter (2010), ‘Staff Portrait Studio’, The Whitechapel Gallery, London (2011), ‘Volunteers’, Festival of Britain, Southbank Centre, London (2011), ‘Idle Worship’, The Centre for Recent Drawing, London (2012). Event at Vane: Saturday 5 October 2-5pm Lady Lucy, Jacqueline Utley and Flora Whiteley will be in conversation with artist Susie Green. The artists will be looking back over the development of the project ‘Suppose An Eyes’. The afternoon is arranged to open up discussion and conversation and will include contemporary performance and artists’ moving image. Admission to the talk is free but booking is required. Please contact the gallery on 0191 261 8281 or [email protected] to book a place. |
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