Nina Manandar
Nina Manandhar will be exhibiting a selection of photos from her growing collection of reportage photography that explores contemporary British youth culture and the notion of engaging with it as opposed to taking from it.
The photos on display challenge the mainstream teenage aesthetic by capturing what is not essentially deemed newsworthy in popular publications, going beyond demographic stereotypes and into the world and places of the individual, empowering the subject – in this case, youth.
For more information contact:
Hannah Leiser
T: 020 7907 7130
E: hannah.leiser@exposure.net
Kimberley Harvey
T: 020 7907 7132
E: kimberley.harvey@exposure.net
Exhibition:
Monday 2nd August – Monday 30th August 2010
Gallery Opening Times:
Monday – Friday 10.00 – 18.00
Entry: Free
Alexander 6
ALEXANDER 6 is a London-based artist and illustrator. Using pen, paint and pixel, his work is accessible, amusing and arousing. Graphic novel aesthetics, kaleidoscopic cityscapes and femme fatales with impossible legs meet in a world of glossy drips, flicks and confidence tricks.
In this exhibition, check out the ultimate rollercoaster in a theme park from hell, a sexed-up fairytale crown and a delightful illustrated collection of torture devices, presented with the draftsmanship of Disney and the taste of Katie Price.
ALEXANDER 6 creates work for clients from the worlds of Interior Design, Theatre, Music, Fashion, Film and Luxury. Recent work includes bespoke commissions for Diesel, David Collins, The Connaught Hotel and The Queen of Hoxton.
ORIGINALS and PRINTS available to purchase.
For more information contact:
Hannah Leiser
T: 020 7907 7130
E: hannah.leiser@exposure.net
Kimberley Harvey
T: 020 7907 7132
E: kimberley.harvey@exposure.net
Exhibition:
Monday 5th July – Friday 30th July 2010
Gallery Opening Times:
Monday – Friday 10.00 – 18.00
Entry: Free
Sonic Editions
Sonic Editions is an innovative new business created to make affordable limited edition music photography available to real music fans for the first time. Working with some of the world’s best photographers and music archives, Sonic Editions offer limited edition prints of the greatest artists in Rock, Pop, Punk, Hip Hop, R&B and Jazz.
Starting at just £59, real fans can forget gallery prices and instead select fairly priced, high-quailty framed prints of their most cherised music icons, solely from Sonic Editions.
Sonic Editions pay credit to classic rockers such as Dylan, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, but also boast a ‘hip hop collection’ which sees the prints move into an almost ‘lifestyle’ purchase and a heavy metal collection’, which is visually stunning and appeals to a lucrative niche.
In just 5 months, Sonic Editions has soared, trading in 14 countries and striking up partnerships with some of the most influential and credible outlets in music, including Rough Trade shops, NME and Uncut.
There is a ‘Who’s Who’ of Rock legends spanning the eras, beginning with johnny Cash at the New York Folk Festival and Bob Dylan recording ‘Bringing it All Back Home’, both from 1965. The collection carries through to The White Stripes, Michael Stipe of REM and Morrisey performing live.
These are just some examples of the stunning selection on offer.
Check out www.soniceditions.com for more information.
Hannah Leiser
T: 020 7907 7130
E: hannah.leiser@exposure.net
Kimberley Harvey
T: 020 7907 7132
E: kimberley.harvey@exposure.net
Exhibition:
Tuesday 1st June – Friday 2nd July 2010
Gallery Opening Times:
Monday – Friday 10.00 – 18.00
Entry: Free
Death Spray Custom
Division Lines is a collection of all new work for Exposure Gallery by Death Spray Custom.
Born from an unholy marriage of Californian custom painting and a European modernist aesthetic, Death Spray rose to prominence with his playful take on all things two wheels. Already a favorite in the ever-demanding cycle scene, his motorcycle creations also surprise and intrigue. DSC describes his work as Functional Vanity, changing the look, feel and value of objects that are mass-produced. One of a thousand becomes one of one.
Division Lines brings together a cross section of all new DSC work. The super high gloss finish, simple sharp colour ways and playful rationales are all in effect. Four chapters of work that explore the lines between perception, reality and rules.
Hannah Leiser
T: 020 7907 7130
E: hannah.leiser@exposure.net
Kimberley Harvey
T: 020 7907 7132
E: kimberley.harvey@exposure.net
Exhibition:
Tuesday 6th April – Friday 30th April 2010
Gallery Opening Times:
Monday – Friday 10.00 – 18.00
Entry: Free
Roger Walker
Series: 2002 – 2010
From fine artist to 25 years as a sculptor in the film industry, Series signals a return to Roger’s roots – painting.
With Series Roger is exploring how Realism in paintings depicts or translates everyday reality and questions the illusion of three-dimensional space on a flat surface. He works not directly from life source material, but from images that are already depictions of life in some form – photographs and prints, video stills, newspaper cuttings and found three dimensional objects of interest.
The type of imagery used is often iconic or familiar, but re-presented or juxtaposed with contextual images from another source to create both spatial interaction and a narrative which may be complementary or create ambiguity.
Roger draws upon diverse periods in art history, from ancient Egypt through the Italian Renaissance, Surrealism and American Pop Art.
The Series Collection
Toy Series
Toys are of interest in that they are stylised miniatures of real objects or people, often with an inherent strangeness which is amplified when enlarged in a two dimensional painting, blurring boundaries between toy and reality. Borrowing from Renaissance painting, Roger juxtaposes Toys with contextual imagery showing background landscape as in the painting New York Doll and Over the Bay, whilst Loan Rider explores the various figurative motifs of the gun’s packaging.
Icon Series
Icon images – often of female beauty are lifted from mass media sources and through the painting are isolated in time and space: Infinite Grace, A Moment in Time and Olga. This somehow equates to sculpture as in the famous painting of Whistlejacket by Stubbs.
Drapes Series
Drapes in the painting create a foreground screen of uncertain meaning or context (a window? a stage? a cinema? a beginning or an end?) giving onto a familiar scene or iconic view. This leads the viewers to question where they are and what it is they are looking at. The drapes also create the illusory space beyond.
Roger Walker has recently returned to painting after a long and successful career as a sculptor in the Feature Film industry. Series is his first showing of paintings since in 1975.
Hannah Leiser
T: 020 7907 7130
E: hannah.leiser@exposure.net
Kimberley Harvey
T: 020 7907 7132
E: kimberley.harvey@exposure.net
Exhibition:
Tuesday 4th May – Friday 28th May 2010
Gallery Opening Times:
Monday – Friday 10.00 – 18.00
Entry: Free
Private View:
Thursday 6th May
18.30 – 20.30
Dan Beard
Through the Looking Glass, Darkly
The paintings that Beard is exhibiting in Exposure Gallery deal with questions of the painting surface and materials, portraiture and the theme of metamorphosis.
The surface materials Beard has chosen to use are mirrors and enlarged photographs, painted upon with many layers of bright clear lacquer and oil colour. The mirror transmutates from that of a 2 dimensional surface into a liquid space that reflects our reality in new ways, containing the viewer in the world of the painting’s subject. The photograph changes from portraying a snapshot of reality into a painted, organic fantasy. So too the portraits, both human and animal, undergo a metamorphosis in themselves, dissolving into their space and even reducing down to their skeleton or disappearing altogether.
All sales, further information, press enquires and interview requests:
Chloé Nelkin
T: 020 7907 7200,
E: chloe.nelkin@exposure.net
Hannah Leiser
T: 020 7907 7130
E: hannah.leiser@exposure.net
Exhibition:
Thursday 4th March – Thursday 1st April 2010
Gallery Opening Times:
Monday – Friday 10.00 – 18.00
Entry: Free
Home is where the art is
The exposure gallery provides a platform for established artists and emerging creatives to showcase their work – selected not only for their innovative practice, but also their aesthetic qualities. The gallery aims to create intimacy within a high-profile central London location.
The programme varies every month and, since its inception in May 2000, the gallery has shown a broad variety of British and international artists.
Located in the Exposure reception area, the gallery is always buzzing with a guaranteed audience of Exposure’s own clients, media and the general public. Fronting Little Portland Street and backing onto the exposure bar, the gallery is not only the ideal venue for exhibitions but also private functions, live music and product launches. Feel free to drop in anytime and see what’s on display.
Exposure Gallery, 22-23 Little Portland Street, London W1W 8BU
Monday to Friday, 10am – 6pm
For more information please contact:
Hannah Leiser
T: 020 7907 7130
E: hannah.leiser@exposure.net
Kimberley Harvey
T: 020 7907 7132
E: kimberley.harvey@exposure.net
My London: Rob Ryan and Stephen Walter
Exhibition of work by Rob Ryan and Stephen Walter showing their unique perspectives of our capital city.
Ryan is a romantic; his highly decorative and elaborate paper cuts and screen prints show loving couples with hands clasped, surrounded by church bells, boats, boughs, and other motifs. On close inspection, you discover words delicately cut amongst the imagery and see a world filled with dark as well as light where love, hate, loss, pain, fear and death are interwoven. This body of work, beneath its overtly visual romanticism, is visceral in its melancholy. Ryan’s poetry-filled art evokes fairy-tales; the simple and straightforward subjects are in marked contrast to the deceptively sophisticated manner in which the works are made, painstakingly hand-cut with the smallest scalpels from the finest papers.
Walter was inspired by the unfolding drama of city life. ‘The Island: London Series’ is a collection of intricate drawings mapping the 33 individual boroughs as well as amalgamating them into one large island. ‘The Island’ took two years to complete and requires the use of a magnifying glass to decipher its central areas. The geographically accurate maps include many of London’s main roads, railway lines, landmarks and green spaces. However, on closer inspection, ‘they have their own unique identities fashioned by the artist’s idiosyncratic semiotics, wittily juxtaposed with the familiar everyday signage of maps and public spaces. Indeed, Stephen Walter’s lucid combination of diverse source material and his accurate re-mapping of the city that is so compelling, inviting viewers to re-visit the piece and discover something quite new each time, maybe even their own house or road!
Thursday 4th February – Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Gallery Opening Times – Monday to Friday, 10.00 – 18.00
All further information:
Chloé Nelkin
T: 07764 273 219, 020 7907 7200, E: chloe.nelkin@exposure.net
Hannah Leiser
T: 020 7907 7130, E: hannah.leiser@exposure.net