LAF Recommends a collection of solo and group shows for you to discover at your leisure over the festive season.
Ed Cross Fine Art showcases a solo exhibition of works by contemporary painter Abe Odedina; Our 2022 Museum Partner New Hall Art Collection, invites you to explore the work of Scottish-Ghanaian artist Maud Sulter; Alongside, contemporary group shows from Purdy Hicks Gallery and Lychee One, and a Modern focus from Estorick Collection.
ED CROSS FINE ART
CUTTING EDGE
ABE ODEDINA
18 NOVEMBER - 12 DECEMBER
Ed Cross Fine Art presents, Cutting Edge, a solo exhibition of work by Abe Odedina curated by Emily Watkins and surveying the myriad resonances that ‘cutting’ might have in the lives of human beings.
Drawing on a practice not just overflowing with symbols but frequently hinging on them, Cutting Edge sets scenes in sites of everyday cutting – butchers, barbershops, a birthing room in The first cut is the deepest – and the realm of allegory too; Why why why? stars Delilah, the Old Testament’s most notorious hairdresser. Giving shape to established mythologies with one hand and summoning his own uncanny cast of recurring characters with the other, cutting emerges as a very Odedinan subject indeed: both monumental and unremarkable at once.
NEW HALL ART COLLECTION
MAUD SULTER: THE CENTRE OF THE FRAME
MAUD SULTER
4 SEPTEMBER - 2 JANUARY
Maud Sulter: The Centre of the Frame spotlights the work of Scottish-Ghanaian artist Maud Sulter (1960–2008), whose practice is rooted in questioning the representation of Black women in art and literature.
The exhibition brings together Sulter’s iconic photographic series Zabat (1989), which features portraits of contemporary Black female figures dressed as the Greek Muses. Sulter created Zabat in 1989 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the invention of photography. The series, which the artist called a ‘diasporan family portrait’, challenges the invisibility of Black women in art history. The photographs subvert usual representations of the Muses in Western art and highlight the connections between European and African histories and cultures.
PURDY HICKS GALLERY
ANDRZEJ JACKOWSKI & ØRNULF OPDAHL
25 NOVEMBER – 22 DECEMBER 2021
Purdy Hicks Gallery is delighted to present new paintings by Andrzej Jackowksi and Ørnulf Opdahl, whose work share luminosity and the magic of light.
Andrzej Jackowski’s (born 1947, Wales) work is largely autobiographical, based on his early childhood memories, recollections of a family history in Poland and the feeling of alienation and enclosure that these experiences roused.
Ørnulf Opdahl (born 1944, Alesund, Norway) explores the vast and majestic landscapes of the west coast of Norway. He employs strong elements of colour and shape to build up compositions that highlight the scale of his environment.
LYCHEE ONE
UNFAIR WEATHER
CHECHU ÁLAVA, BEA BONAFINI, MARY HERBERT, GABRIELLE KRUGER, ALICIA REYES, MCNAMARA, JAMES OWENS, MARLENE STEYN, LIAN ZHANG
11 NOVEMBER - 17 DECEMBER
Unfair Weather is a group exhibition curated by Lian Zhang, the works on display feature friendship as a structuring principle, examining the importance of personal connections in the face of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Threads of common interest emerge through ties of affection and like-mindedness; there is a radical potential in taking friendship seriously, as a way of looking beyond traditional societal structures and responsibilities and seeking for social change based on open-heartedness, shared affection, and intimacy.
ESTORICK COLLECTION
ESTORICK COLLECTION UNCUT
GROUP SHOW
22 NOVEMBER - 19 DECEMBER
Estorick Collection Uncut is an unmissable opportunity to explore what has been described as “one of the finest collections of early twentieth-century Italian art anywhere in the world”.
The internationally renowned collection, formed by Eric and Salome Estorick in the immediate post-war period, comprises some 120 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures by many of the most prominent Italian artists of the modernist era, including Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Giorgio de Chirico, Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio Morandi and Gino Severini. Rarely seen in full, it is currently displayed across the museum’s six galleries; grouped thematically, and spotlighting movements such as Futurism and Metaphysical Art.
The museum’s setting within a beautiful Georgian villa, provides an intimate place to experience and appreciate this important collection of modern Italian art.
LAF GALLERIES
RETURNING TO THE BUSINESS DESIGN CENTRE, LAUNCHING YOUR NEW ART YEAR
19 - 23 JANUARY 2022
Reconnect with leading galleries from around the world this January and enjoy an outstanding celebration of Modern and Contemporary Art.
An opportunity for you to discover and engage with iconic modernist names, through to contemporary and emerging artists.
Browse over 100 participating galleries through the button below.
JENNA BURLINGHAM GALLERY
'WINTER' EXHIBITION AT ROPE HOUSE
IVON HITCHENS, WINIFRED NICHOLSON, MARY POTTER, WILLIAM NICHOLSON, KEITH VAUGHAN, PRUNELLA CLOUGH, JOHN PIPER, BEN NICHOLSON, BRYAN WYNTER, WILLIAM SCOTT AND PATRICK HERON, AMONG OTHERS.
1 OCTOBER - 24 NOVEMBER
The gallery is delighted announce the opening of their new gallery in Hampshire with an inaugural ‘Winter’ exhibition.
Jenna Burlingham Gallery has expanded with a move to a much larger building, Rope House, on the same street as their original space in Kingsclere. This was once a 19th-century rope merchant’s home and workshop and now has the feeling of an informal townhouse. With open galleries at ground level and drawing rooms upstairs, paintings, prints, sculptures and ceramics are displayed throughout as part of interior settings.
KITAI GALLERY
SUMI_ISM #7
SOGEN CHIBA, REIKO TSUNASHIMA AND MIZUHO KOYAMA
8 - 30 OCTOBER
Sumi, or Japanese ink, has been used for Oriental calligraphic works and paintings for a long time. The need for works in Sumi, an art form backed by a long unbroken history, remains strong.
In contemporary art, which is filled with an indiscriminate mix of materials and representation techniques, works produced based on Sumi are specifically referred to as “Sumi_ism” and at #7 exhibition a collection of works from Reiko Tsunashima and Sogen Chiba, Mizuho Koyama are displayed from this field.
KERLIN
STUCK ON DAWN
MARCEL VIDAL
17 JULY - 26 AUGUST
Kerlin Gallery are delighted to present ‘Stuck on dawn,’ Marcel Vidal’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.
Celebrated for his diverse practice and immersive sculptural installations, the exhibition brings together three series of work in Marcel Vidal’s first exhibition dedicated exclusively to painting.
IKON
A VERY SPECIAL PLACE: IKON IN THE 1990s
18 JUNE – 30 AUGUST
A review of Ikon’s artistic programme in the 1990s, presenting work by 40 artists who showed during this period. With Elizabeth Macgregor as Director, Ikon’s outlook was increasingly international, whilst also showing an eclectic mix of British artists including Basil Beattie, Permindar Kaur, Keith Piper, Yinka Shonibare, Georgina Starr and Mark Wallinger.
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