painters
Bridget Riley: The Curve Paintings 1961-2014, De La Warr PavilionWednesday, 17 June 2015![]() If they remember the 1960s at all, the ageing population of Bexhill-on-Sea will remember Bridget Riley for her black and white experiments in perception. The iconic results of this line of enquiry can still result in a “happening” for the eyeballs.... Read more... |
Fighting History, Tate BritainSunday, 14 June 2015![]() For all the wrong reasons, the work of Dexter Dalwood serves as a useful metaphor for this exhibition. Trite, tokenistic and desperate to look clever, Dalwood’s paintings are as tiresomely inward-looking as the show itself, which is a dismal example... Read more... |
Agnes Martin, Tate ModernFriday, 05 June 2015![]() It's impossible to overstate the reverence accorded the painter Agnes Martin by her fellow artists; in the panoply of American cultural goddesses, she is right up there with Emily Dickinson. Yet she is scarcely known in the wider world, partly... Read more... |
Perspectives: War Art with Eddie Redmayne, ITVMonday, 25 May 2015![]() The country is groaning under the weight of commemorations, exhibitions, publications and programmes all marking significant anniversaries of World War One, but the underlying message – lest we forget – remains as potent as ever, perhaps even more... Read more... |
Cornelius Johnson, National Portrait GallerySaturday, 02 May 2015![]() It’s far too easy to think about the history of art as a series of class acts, with one superlative achievement following another. Exhibitions tend to encourage this view, and the notion of a superstar artist is key to persuading us that the latest... Read more... |
Sonia Delaunay, Tate ModernWednesday, 15 April 2015![]() In 1967 when she produced Syncopated Rhythm (main picture), Sonia Delaunay was 82; far from any decline in energy or ambition, the abstract painting shows her in a relaxed and playful mood. Known as The Black Snake for the sinuous black and white... Read more... |
YZ Kami, Gagosian GalleryTuesday, 14 April 2015![]() The Iranian-born New York resident painter YZ Kami, now in his mid-fifties, continually plays with our hunger to look at “reality” while being seduced by abstraction and repetition. In 17 canvases, painted over the past two years, Kami explores two... Read more... |
Jo Baer, Camden Arts CentreSunday, 12 April 2015![]() At 86, Jo Baer is still painting vigorously. In the mid 1960s, she was an established New York Minimalist along with artists like Carl Andre and Sol Lewitt; but while they continued to explore abstraction, she changed tack – dramatically, or so it... Read more... |
Ellen Altfest, MK GalleryFriday, 10 April 2015![]() MK Gallery has a knack for showcasing mid-career artists before any other public space and this is Ellen Altfest’s first survey in the UK. There are 22 paintings here which, given their demands on her time, represent a significant proportion of the... Read more... |
Joshua Reynolds, Wallace CollectionSaturday, 21 March 2015![]() The grand but domestic setting of Hertford House, home of the Wallace Collection, makes a fitting backdrop to an exhibition of paintings by Joshua Reynolds. The Marquesses of Hertford acquired some 25 paintings by Reynolds in the artist's lifetime,... Read more... |
Richard Diebenkorn, Royal AcademyMonday, 16 March 2015![]() Made an Honorary Royal Academician just a few months before he died, in 1993, it’s taken till now for a posthumous Royal Academy survey to finally bring one of the absolute greats of American postwar painting to a UK audience. Of course, for those... Read more... |
Marlene Dumas: The Image as Burden, Tate ModernTuesday, 03 February 2015![]() "My fatherland is South Africa, my mother tongue is Afrikaans, my surname is French, I don’t speak French. My mother always wanted me to go to Paris. She thought art was French because of Picasso. I thought art was American because of Artforum... I... Read more... |
