1st – 25th May

Studio 1. 1 gallery

57a Shoreditch Street, London E2 7DJ

‘After-Image’  

with

CAROLINE THOMSON, KEN RATCLIFFE, KATHERINE LUBAR, CATHY LOMAX, HELEN SEAR, ZOE CROSSE, EVA RUDLINGER, DAVID GOLDENBERG, ROB LEECH, PETER ROSEMAN, ZOE GRANGER

1 – 25 May

private view Thursday 1 May 6 – 9 pm

An exhibition of work of artists whose starting point (however far they travel from it), is the photograph. With the invention of photography (and the popularisation of Japanese prints which arguably have a similar influence in disrupting the composition), painters in particular were liberated from old assumptions.

Recording, reproduction were no longer essential. The disrupted frame, the arrested or blurred image became starting points. Photography, like a chemical Columbus transformed the way we see the world. It therefore changed entirely the way artists re-present that world if we can accept that is what they chiefly do.

Whereas the sketch and other (in)formal experiments such as Cozens’ blot landscapes, existed to refine the painters’ practice and sought to expand the painting form, it was ultimately photography that exploded the frame.

3 works

2024

Digital prints on dibond

Titles

Layers

Objects covering a face

Operations