New Event: Curator-led tour of Monster/Beauty
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Date: Friday, 16 October
Time: 10 am
Place: Lychee One Gallery
Unit 1, The Gransden
39 Gransden Avenue
London E8 3QA.
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Limited Spaces Available. Image: Christina BanBan, Suite 2020
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Join us for this special tour of Monster/Beauty: An Exploration of the Female/Femme Gaze led by curator Marcelle Joseph. This group exhibition features the artwork, ephemera and archival photographs of 19 female identifying or queer-femme artists who portray the female body, empowering the woman artist as both subject and object, image and image-maker.
Spotlighting a 1978 nude by Hannah Wilke, the show also includes archival works by Yayoi Kusama and Polish sculptor Alina Szapocnikow as well as recent works by artists including Lisa Brice, Juno Calypso, Cristina BanBan, and Jessie Makinson.
Due to current circumstances, spaces are limited.
Tickets:Patrons - free; Friends - £5; Visitors - £10
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U.K. Friends Talk on Artemisia Gentileschi now available:
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If you missed our talk on Artemisia Gentileschi, you can still catch Maria Mack D'Amario's informative presentation by listening to our recording. (Click here)
Passcode: 0nkD7@s1
Image: Esther Before Ahasuerus, 1620s -1630s,
Metropolitan Museum of New York
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How are galleries adapting to Covid-19?
Recent surveys say that the art market is down approximately 36% in sales compared to this time in 2019. For a new series in our newsletter we ask galleries how their plans for this year have adapted due to Covid-19 and find encouraging responses.
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Our first discussions are with the Gillian Jason Gallery and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.
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How did the gallery adapt during lockdown?
Gillian Jason Galley: We viewed lockdown as a period of opportunity to create something new and cutting edge. Alongside the architect Emily Garnett, the gallery designed and produced an online virtual reality exhibition, What We See. This 3D space allows users to explore the environment and interact with the artwork from any device, anywhere and anytime.
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This is an exhibition of two parts: the intersection of art and technology coming together in a new post-pandemic digital world and a continuum for the work of the gallery in championing the important work of emerging female artists. These artists include BP Portrait Prize Winners Jiab Prachakul (2020), Emma Hopkins (2019), and Ania Hobson (2018) as well as copper sculptor Sadie Clayton, and AI artist Sougwen Chung.
Image: Installation, What We See, Gillian Jason Gallery
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Pippy Houldsworth Gallery: During lockdown we initiated Insight, an online programme debuting work by artists working during lockdown alongside a short video, presented by the artist. People have enjoyed a more intimate look into the studio and the programme has brought a lot of energy whilst the gallery space was inaccessible.
We have just opened for the first time since March and intend to focus on a small number of exhibitions at the gallery during the Autumn. Currently on view is Jesture, a solo exhibition of new paintings by young London-based woman artist Jadé Fadojutimi. The show is brimming with dynamism and optimistic energy and comes ahead of solo exhibitions at The Hepworth Wakefield and ICA Miami next year.
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Image: Jadé Fadojutimi, Mosaicked Utterance, 2020.
Jesture at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery.
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What are your plans for the rest of 2020?
Gillian Jason Gallery: In a global period of turmoil, we believe that art is a nourishing outlet for the soul. So as well as launching a new online exhibition, the gallery will also be hosting a physical pop-up exhibition. Inside Me, a new exhibition by Ukrainian artist Alina Zamanova and Paris-based Couturier Michaela Stark, explores the artists’ collaborative process to help one-another investigate social perceptions of beauty in the female form and what it means to embrace feelings of discomfort in one’s own skin.This theme has been of particular interest as many women during the coronarius lockdown period have struggled with mental health and bodily insecurities.
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery: Upcoming is a group exhibition of work by Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly and Agnes Martin. The show will look at the poetics and politics of language, writing and mark-making and will also reflect the gallery’s commitment to women artists and intergenerational dialogue.
Unfortunately, FIAC has been cancelled this year so we will not be able to present our booth of ‘60s work by Jacqueline de Jong. We will, however, be participating in Art Basel Miami Beach’s online fair in December.
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