Blog Archives - Jo Barber

21. Alastair MacKinven

10/21/2012

Drawing, painting, sculpture, audio and photography
Abstract Capitalist Realism, the title of the series to which this painting belongs, flirts between ideas of Abstraction and Pop, citing Capitalist Realism, an art movement in Germany that paralleled early pop and presented a viable alternative to the commodity fetishism which became the hallmark of the genre.
'South of Heaven', screenprint and oil on canvas, seen at British Art Now exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery July 2010

20. Boyd and Evans

10/21/2012

Painting and photographyBoyd & Evans create paintings from photographs, where perspective and scale are heavily altered to produce surreal effects, and to investigate ideas about representation.
'Warm Springs Winter' seen at Royal Academy Summer Exhition 2010.

http://www.boydandevans.com/

19. Rosson Crow

10/21/2012

Painter
She is known for her exuberant large-scale depictions of nostalgia-laden interiors that blend historical allusion and theatrical illusion.
'Poverty Party at the White House' (2008) seen at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2010.
See interview at

http://www.artslant.com/ny/artists/rackroom/2882

18. Goldie

10/21/2012

Urban artist and musician
Stencils and spray paint
Social decay and youth culture. "Kids have really been abandoned..." He has been teaching urban art to teenagers for 20 years . "When you can learn a form of graffiti ... you can do any form of art"
Article in The Independent 10/04/2009 to coincide with his exhibition 'The Kids Are All Riot'.

17. Jane Dixon

10/20/2012

Hybrid – works often contain elements of print, painting, drawing and photography.
Her work explores ideas relating to human vulnerability; impermanence, fragility and the essential dichotomy between absence and presence, the concrete and illusory, the relationship between the real and the artificial or invented.
Top picture 'Platform (from model series)' 2012, graphite frottage. My favourite item in the Jerwood exhibition this year.
Bottom picture 'Regeneration II (Chicago)' etching.
www.janedixon.net/

16. Claude Heath

10/20/2012

Drawing and painting
Includes coloured biro on paper
He draws without looking at the object, using the touch of his hand and recording the tactile, three-dimensional contours of the object with a tracery of lines. Sometimes he turns these into paintings.
'Head (Drawing 137)' 1995, seen in ‘Unknown fields’ exhibition, Salisbury 2012
www.claudeheath.com/

15. Jean Francois Rauzier

10/17/2012

Hyperphotography
Each photo is made up of between 600 and 3,500 individual close-up images, stitched together with Photoshop.
Trying to understand our uban surroundings by presenting the way these environments appear in our memories and dreams.
'Racines' (2003) seen in exhibition at Waterhouse & Dodd gallery, London, 2009.
http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/

14. Michael Mew

10/17/2012

Collage
Drawings, product labels, repainting, botanical illustrations
Juxtaposes the pre-industrial view of nature with the logos and advertising of recent eras to pair the common and overlooked detritus of various cultures with the classically beautiful.
'Iris 2' seen in exhibition at Mauger Modern Art Gallery, Bath, 2008
www.michaelmewstudio.com

13. Kate Atkin

10/17/2012

Drawing
Graphite pencil on paper
She takes natural forms such as roots and rocks and presents these familiar forms in a new state of isolation removed from their surroundings to create something new.
'Prospero's Island' (pencil on paper) seen at exhibition ‘Unknown Fields’, Salisbury, 2012.
http://www.kateatkin.net/

12. Jim Dine

10/17/2012

Originally known as a Pop artist
Since 1967 has focussed on drawing and printmaking
His themes are taken from everyday objects which he repeats again and again, often in several mediums. Through its exploration and reinvention by the artist, the common image loses its usual place in the public domain and becomes stamped with the artist’s signature. He is well know for his drawings of tools.
'Color on her' (etching with hand colouring) seen at Alan Cristea Gallery.
www.alancristea.com/artist-Jim-Dine