Hope and Resurrection, A Street Art Reportage
Jessica Stewart
Hobo Art Club
via Ascoli Piceno 3 (Rome, Italy)
September 11 - 25, 2009.
Opening September 11 at 8 pm

What is the power of an image?  How does it effect/move/transform a place or a person?  And what happens when people of different backgrounds come together to push an image out into the world?   read more »

A gigantic PVC banner featuring demonic swine dominates the project space. The gallery's relocation to the urban regeneration area that is King's Cross also marks the return of Howard's "Lucky Lucky Dice" Gambling Company.    read more »

The recent works are a continuing exploration of an alternate reality, of dysfunctional parallel worlds. Scale remains a central interest in the construction of these universes. Scale, the use of a close-up viewpoint and an immersion in the detail of the forms, all lead to an ambiguity about the subject of the paintings. The resulting images present scenes that are at once familiar and strange. Rooted in the genre of Still Life, one is left trying to make sense of these other worlds or forms. Inspired in part by the fictional landscapes of film (Tarkovsky) and literature (Ballard) and by found images of the ruins of ancient civilisations, the current paintings imagine places and objects devoid of life yet pregnant with the possibility.  Hovering on the edges of abstraction and surrealism the subject has evolved into an intensely personal world.    read more »

Marcus Freeman's paintings are formal works, in the sense that although the painter is aware the subjects have meaning, his chief concern is simply to create the best image possible. At first sight it's tempting to assume that the artist might be interested in architecture as buildings are the overwhelming subject matter. However, the paintings are really landscape paintings, they just happen to be urban landscapes.  Certainly the buildings are exceptionally unremarkable architecturally – in fact they seem chosen as examples utilitarian plainness. This is quite deliberate, as any building of architectural merit or aesthetic interest would steal the show.  read more »

In/flux

80 Kingsland Rd, E2 8DP (next to Flowers East)
3-14 September 2009

Private view 6-9 pm on 2 September
Tues - Sat 12-8 pm, Sun 2-8 pm, Thurs open late

Hackney Transient Art Project (HTAP) is pleased to announce in/flux, an exhibition of new works of art and design exploring everyday experience as a catalyst for critical/creative practice.  Presented in a former furniture showroom on the Hackney thoroughfare of Kingsland Rd., in/flux considers ways of living, working and playing in this London borough. The title and many of the exhibition’s themes take their inspiration from Hackney as a place/space in transition.Distinguished by a rich history of class and cultural diversity, the borough is now preparing to host the 2012 Olympic Summer Games. in/flux not only considers customs, habits, mores and other ways of living practiced by local residents over the last fifty years, the exhibition also examines Hackney’s contemporary cultural context as it meshes the histories and imaginaries of artists and/or immigrants from all over the world.    read more »