Time + Place

From a group exhibition I enjoyed very much, Time + Place currently at Huxley-Parlour Gallery, Maddox Street, London ...

Emmanuel Osahor's Another Moment:

Rachel Whiteread's In Out XIII:

Graham Silvería Martin's A Portal [VII]:

Richard Learoyd's Untitled Poppies:

Ed Ruscha's Vacant Lots and Anusheh Zia's Light Of The Olive Tree:

Prunella Clough's Oblique I:

Olafur Eliasson's Walk Series [Alftavatn Close-Up Series]:

Rebecca Partridge's Sky Painting 11:

Ozioma Onuzulike's Royal Mask For The Jagaban III:

Just around the corner from the gallery was a building called Time & Life:

525600 minutes*

Nothing portrays the flow of time better than passages of light and shadow.  Some light/shadow moments over this past year ...

Francine Savard at Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, January:

Rebecca Partridge at Art First Projects, London, March:

Pinakothek der Moderne, München, July:

Walter De Maria at Pinakothek der Moderne, München, July:

Tadao Ando's Conference Pavilion at Vitra Design, Weil am Rhein, July:

Olafur Eliasson at Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, July:

Midtown Toronto, September:

Richard Serra at Gagosian Gallery, New York, November:

*525600 minutes = 1 (non-leap) year ... referencing the lyrics of Seasons Of Love from the Broadway musical Rent.  That was a great show!

Shattered grids

A couple of drawings based on paintings by Melissa Oresky at Western Exhibitions, Chicago 2009:

and Rebecca Partridge at Art First, London 2011:

From synaesthetic dreams to white shards

My greatest discovery during my trip to London this time was Rebecca Partridge.  It is interesting to know that the geometric forms in her paintings are actually remnants of her childhood synaesthetic dreams.  It then all makes sense to see geometric shapes superimposed on to natural landscapes in her paintings.  Partridge is currently showing at Art First in London.

Image from http://www.rebeccapartridge.com/