JASON FOX – BEWARE OF DARKNESS

Posted on 2018-03-19

Jason Fox’s first solo show was held at Feature in New York in the early nineties, just after MoMA’s High and Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture (the first major exhibition to address “the relationship between modern art and popular and commercial culture.”)and only two years before Mike Kelley organized The Uncanny at the Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem. Fox’s work itself acts as a link between these events, and they in turn allow us to chronologically situate his acts of borrowing from both art history and from record sleeves of the seventies. Although considered as common practice today, this kind of artistic approach was not so widespread at the time.   
In a recent interview with artist Joe Bradley, Fox explicits his position: “The early nineties was another death-of-painting period and to be making expressive paintings that had nothing to do with appropriation was going against the tide. […] From the start I was interested in a kind of cyborg/extreme figuration. For me Guston was the big shadow to get out from under. He did what I wanted to do. He’s this giant shadow, and to get out from under it my strategy was to go extreme. I was listening to Howard Stern, watching early Cronenberg movies, looking at S. Clay Wilson and Crumb. I wanted to blow the figure up and rebuild it in a Frankenstein-ish way. Art history and comics were the body parts.”

Opposite – George with Dragon, 2017

Exhibition runs through to April 7th, 2018

Almine Rech Gallery
20 rue de l’Abbaye
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium

www.alminerech.com

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IMAGINED CHARACTERS

Posted on 2018-03-13

Sid Motion Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition, Imagined Characters, which includes paintings by Charis Entwisle, Pat O’Connor, Jennifer Louise Martin and Daniel Wheeler.

Charis Entwisle (b.1997, Bristol, U.K.) is currently studying Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He currently lives and works in London.

Pat O’Connor graduated from Royal College of Art London in 1996. O’Connor’s recent projects include Lived on the Bone, Govan Project Space, Glasgow 2018; Zennor Project Space Residency, Cornwall 2017; Paw, Arcade, London 2015 and Night of the Big Tops, The Dentist, London 2014. She won the Studio Voltaire, Aldeburgh Beach Lookout Residency Prize and was selected for the John Moore’s Painting Prize, 2012.
She currently lives and works in London

Jennifer Louise Martin (b. 1980, London) completed a Diploma in Art & Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design before going on to do Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Leeds, U.K. She then went onto complete a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins, London.
Recent solo exhibitions have included a Brand Collaboration with Zanzan Eyewear & Laura Bailey, Alex Eagle Studio, London, 2017; The Absence of Presence, Gallery 151, New York, 2013 and (Re) Fashioning the Gaze, Oak Tree & Tiger Gallery, London.

Daniel Wheeler (b. 1976, West Yorkshire, U.K.) lived and worked predominantly in Europe, later returning to the U.K. to study Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, 2009-2013.
In 2014 Wheeler was shortlisted for the Clyde and Co Art Award and the Jerwood Drawing Prize. In that year he was also longlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize.
He currently lives and works in Southend.

Opposite – Charis Entwisle – Some free time remains 2, 2017

Exhibition runs from March 22nd – April 14th, 2018

Sid Motion Gallery
142 York Way
London
N1 0AX

www.sidmotiongallery.co.uk

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