Category: Painting
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Standing Still, by Eugene Palmer – The Poetics of Portraiture at Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK
Eight new paintings by internationally acclaimed Jamaican-British figurative artist Eugene Palmer (b. 1955, Kingston) are presented in the exhibition ‘Standing Still’ (Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 18 February – 8 May 2023). The launch coincides with the artist’s sublime single-figure portrait of ‘Ann’ (2022) within this series going on public view for the first time in the…
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Fly in League with the Night (Tate Britain, Nov. 2022 – Feb. 2023)
An illustrated review of the solo exhibition “Fly in League with the Night” (Tate Britain, Nov. 2022- Feb. 2023) – featuring an extensive selection of contemporary figurative paintings and poetry by the internationally acclaimed British artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b. London, 1977). “At Ease As The Day Breaks Beside Its Erasure / And At Pains To…
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Frank Bowling: The Possibilities of Paint are Never-Ending
How fitting that Tate Britain’s first solo retrospective about the 60-year career of Guyanese-British painter Frank Bowling, OBE, RA (b. Bartica, 1934) should be titled and themed around his own words: “The possibilities of paint are never-ending”– Frank Bowling, 2017 This long-awaited exhibition was presented over nine rooms at the Millbank site in London, 31…
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Picturing Diversity – The Power of Portraiture
I am seldom more satisfied with a gallery visit than on the occasions when you walk into an exhibition space intending to view one thing, and then stumble on something quite unexpected that turns out to be far more interesting than the artwork or display you originally planned to see. The 3rd August 2017 turned…
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NAMLA (Nader Art Museum Latin America) celebrates Wifredo Lam in New York
Public exhibition from November 11 through November 21 at Gary Nader NY, 24 West 57th Street, New York City. This show will include works from the Nader Art Museum Latin America (NAMLA) as well as Several Prestigious Private Collections Nader Art Museum Latin America and Gary Nader NY are pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition […]…
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