January 2012
27 posts
IT IS GREEN, A FIRST THURSDAY GROUP SHOW AT...
Cultivate, Vyner Street, Corner of Vyner Street and Mowlem Street, E2 9HA, London, United Kingdom
March 1 at 6:00pm until March 14 at 6:00pm
This March it is green, we have a group show called IT IS GREEN/ A two week show on our corner, right at the heart of Vyner Street, opening on March First Thursday and this time, following in from Red. Something Blue, it is green, yes, another...
Andrew Lanyon & Antony Penrose: A Childhood With...
at Falmouth Art Gallery - The Moor, Falmouth, UK
Jan 21, 2012 - Mar 3, 2012
This quirky exhibition will feature newly commissioned works created in partnership by the contemporary Surrealist artists, Andrew Lanyon and Antony Penrose. As small children both artists met (and sometimes played games with!) many of the leading artists of the Surrealist movement. These childhood experiences and...
Gary Hume: The Indifferent Owl
at White Cube, Hoxton Square - 48 Hoxton Square, London, UK
Jan 18, 2012 - Feb 25, 2012
‘The Indifferent Owl’, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Gary Hume. Over the past twenty years, Hume has developed a distinctive visual language of bold, simplified forms to create paintings that engage the viewer with their pleasantly irresolvable quality. The exhibition, his first in London...
David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture
at Royal Academy of Arts
Jan 21, 2012 - Apr 9, 2012
31 Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, London, UK
In January 2012 the Royal Academy of Arts will showcase the first major exhibition of new landscape works by David Hockney RA. Featuring vivid paintings inspired by the East Yorkshire landscape, these large-scale works have been created especially for the galleries at the Royal Academy of Arts. ...
THREE x THREE pt.1 with COS AHMET, EMMA HARVEY &...
February 23 at 6:00pm until February 29 at 6:00pm
Cultivate, Vyner Street, Corner of Vyner Street and Mowlem Street, E2 9HA, London, United Kingdom
THREE x THREE part 1 with COS AHMET, EMMA HARVEY & DARREN MacPHERSON
OPENING NIGHT VIEW, 6pm - 9pm THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23rd then in the gallery space for one week until Wednesday 29th Links to the artists: COS...
Zarina Bhimji at Whitechapel Art Gallery
Jan 19, 2012 - Mar 9, 2012
77-82 Whitechapel High St, London, UK
Landscapes and buildings haunted by their layered histories are the protagonists in British artist Zarina Bhimji’s photographs and large-scale film installations. India and East Africa are the repeat locations for her poetic foray into the archaeology of place.
This first major survey exhibition traces 25 years of Bhimji’s...
Paper Spirits: Collage Portraits by Vladimir...
at The Lightbox - Chobham Road, Surrey, UK
Jan 17, 2012 - Mar 25, 2012
This display showcases collage portraits of some of the most well-known 20th Century European painters, by the Russian artist Vladimir Sulyagin. Produced over the last two decades, these striking portraits demonstrate the imaginative use of the medium of collage
Transmitter/Receiver: The Persistence of Collage
at The Lightbox - Chobham Road, Surrey, UK
Jan 18, 2012 - Mar 25, 2012
This ground-breaking exhibition traces the use of collage in British art and brings together famous British artists who have used the medium. With Ben Nicholson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Richard Hamilton, Patrick Caulfield, Chris Ofili and Grayson Perry featured alongside contemporary and newly emerging artists this exciting...
Hamish Fulton: Walk at Turner Contemporary
Jan 17, 2012 - May 7, 2012
Lifeboat Station, The Rendezvous, Margate, UK
Hamish Fulton’s first one-person show in the UK since 2002 will include new work made as the result of the group walks in Kent that were commissioned by Turner Contemporary in the lead up to the opening of our new gallery. Based in Canterbury, Kent, Hamish Fulton has made walking the basis of his practice for the...
Animation and Disability at Thelma Hulbert...
21 January - 3 March 2012
ABOVE: Brian The Bull Terrier © Aardman Animations
As part of 2012’s Animated Exeter festival this Thelma Hulbert Gallery exhibition explores Animation and Disability, showcasing the work of disabled animators, alongside animations highlighting disability.
Featuring an enlightening selection of animations including Creature Discomforts by Aardman Animations, the...
Bob Dylan Preview Evening-2012 Release
Thursday, January 26, 2012
6:30pm until 8:30pm
Wall To Wall Gallery, The Home Quarter
53-55 Hanover Street, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Dylan’s exciting 2012 collection will be officially launched on the 28th January…. but we are offering you the chance to preview the work, on the Thursday 26th January, here at the gallery. Please feel free to come and join us for a glass of...
David W L Stanier - New Painting Sold In A Week!!
Artificial Sweetner by artist David W L Stanier - Medium: Original Artwork - Oil on wood - size with frame: 137.2 x 53.3 cms
West Country Galleries mentioned in a previous blog that our accomplished resident artist David Stanier had completed a new original work entitled Artificial Sweetner. David uploaded his new artwork to his gallery page and it sold in a week!! Proof that his work is...
The Peckham Banish the Blues Art Tour (Pay What...
Friday, January 27, 2012
6:30pm until 8:30pm
Start Point: Peckham Space, 89 Peckham High Street, SE15 5RS
Our first tour of 2012 will be: The Peckham Banish the Blues Tour! www.southlondonartmap.com/tours The thought of January getting you down? Join your tour guide Adam Walker to visit a varied, eclectic mix of Peckham galleries and inject some cultural fun into the dark winter nights....
ORGAN RADIO SHOW, Cultivating with the VV art...
Sunday, January 22, 2012
9:00pm until 12:00am
ON YOU RADIO VIA RESONANCE FM
This week’s Organ radio show, with presenter Sean Worrall (AKA Sean Organ), will feature special guests Ellie Green and Bex Massey, the co-founders of VV art collective. Sean will be chatting with Ellie and Bex ahead of the forthcoming VV take over of Cultivate, Vyner Street, and their week-long group...
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Frank Stella: Return to the Glass House
The Philip Johnson Glass House Oral History Project records the memories and reflections of some the worlds most important architects, artists and scholars about one of the 20th Century’s most influential architects and design legacies — Philip Johnson, the Glass House and Modernism & Leadership more broadly. The Glass House offers a...
UK / London : Exhibition Sean Scully: Change and...
at Timothy Taylor Gallery
Jan 13, 2012 - Feb 11, 2012
About the Event
This intensely focused survey is comprised of acrylic, ink, graphite, and masking-tape drawings from 1974–75—presented together for the first time in over 30 years—as well as two large-scale paintings from the same period and the artist’s personal notebooks. Selected from two distinct series, the Change...
Exorcising the Fear: British Sculpture from the...
About the Event
at Pangolin London
Jan 11, 2012 - Mar 3, 2012
Taking the sixtieth anniversary year of the XXVI Venice Biennale of 1952 as its starting point Exorcising the Fear will explore a pivotal point in the history of British sculpture. Returning to the essay by Herbert Read which left an indelible mark on the history of art with the phrase ‘the geometry of fear’, the...
THE VINYL RECORD SHOW @ CULTIVATE, VYNER STREET
THE VINYL RECORD SHOW @ CULTIVATE, VYNER STREET.
April 19 at 6:00pm until April 22 at 6:00pm We love vinyl records, we love playing them, we love painting on them, we love record covers, we love the labels, those classic paper sleeves that 7”ers came in, we are vinyl junkies, so are you…. To tie in with this year’s (annual) Record Store day, we shall spend a weekend celebrating...
Picasso painting stolen from Greek gallery
The Picasso painting was one of three snatched from the gallery
A Picasso painting, given to the Athens National Gallery by the artist himself, was stolen on Monday along with two other valuable works of art.
Picasso’s Woman’s Head was given to Greece in 1949 in recognition of the country’s resistance to Nazi Germany.
In a statement, police said a Mondrian painting and a...
Gideon Summerfield - An Artist To Look Out For!
Just recently, I received an e-mail telling me that I had a new follower on my Twitter page. The name that came before me was Gideon Summerfield. I’ve not seen talent like this in a long time and I was over the moon to hear from him. Let me tell you a little bit about him and then you can sit back for a bumper show of U-tube and more!
Gideon Summerfield is a young British artist,...
Birdwood House / Events / Sat 21st to Sat 28th Jan...
Robert Davidson took early retirement on leaving school at the age of 17. He then went to Paris where he met legendary Sixties photographer Emil Cadoo. Inspired by Cadoo, he returned to London two years later to pursue a life in photography.
In London he worked for a number of portrait and fashion photographers before making friends with the infamous Tony Secunda, manager of the Moody Blues...
SECA: 50 Years of Bay Area Art at SFMOMA
Celebrating the unique and long-standing role of SFMOMA’s SECA award program, this presentation brings into dialogue works by a number of past award recipients. In concert with an oral history project and a comprehensive book, the exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of the museum’s distinguished art interest group SECA (Society for the Encouragement of ...
Exhibition Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot...
at Gagosian Gallery, London (Davies Street)
Jan 12, 2012 - Feb 18, 2012
About the Event
I was always a colorist, I’ve always had a phenomenal love of color… I mean, I just move color around on its own. So that’s where the spot paintings came from—to create that structure to do those colors, and do nothing. I suddenly got what I wanted. It was just a way of pinning down the joy of...
Abstract Artist Helen Frankenthaler Dies At Age 83...
Gordon Parks/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
Abstract expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler, pictured above in 1956, adopted Jackson Pollock’s technique of painting canvases laid flat on the floor. She sought to “marry” the paint with the canvas, she said.
At a time when the art world was still dominated by men, Helen Frankenthaler’s abstract canvasses earned the...
Pawel Althamer's Plastic Portrait Sculptures
Polish sculptor Pawel Althamer has set up equipment from his family’s plastic factory in a Berlin gallery for an aptly titled exhibition, “in progress”. The public is part of the experience: Visitors can volunteer to have a cast taken of their face from which Althamer then creates a plastic sculpture.
Richard Hamilton: Portraits of the Artist
at National Portrait Gallery, London
Dec 19, 2011 - May 17, 2012
Richard Hamilton pictured last year. Photograph: Richard Saker
Richard Hamilton, who died recently, was one of the founders of Pop Art in Britain. Richard Hamilton: Portraits of the Artist features celebrated images of the artist and includes works by Hamilton, David Hockney, Lord Snowdon and Jorge Lewinski.
In his long,...
TERRY O’NEILL: SCREEN SIRENS & ROCK REBELS
8th December 2011 – 22nd January 2012 at the Proud Gallery, Chelsea, SW3
Celebrating his career of over half a century photographing the world’s most famous stars, Proud, Chelsea is pleased to exhibit Screen Sirens & Rock Rebels, a Terry O’ Neill retrospective. The exhibition includes an unseen box set of photographs which will be sold exclusively through Proud Galleries as well as some...
