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 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.

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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 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

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.

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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

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

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

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

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

The seductive beauty of Daniel Crews-Chubb’s works mesmerises the viewer and conjures up evocative images of travel and foreign destinations. He has a unique style, depicting popular places around the world in large dynamic oils creating an imagined mental snapshot. Engaging in dialogues with other cultures, these exciting works are a direct comment on the time in which we live illustrating the information available today which allows us to create opinions and pictures and to form decisions.

Using ideas generated through literature, philosophy and film, Michael Hall is intrigued by the interplay between verbal and visual worlds. He has a particular interest in romantic notions of melancholy, exploring landscape in particular. His works experiment with imprinting language upon landscape in an effort to evoke meaning through an emotional response. He explores a mediated experience of ‘place’ sourced from literature, television and real life.

Rebecca Johnston’s work is concerned with the reality of death. She uses the obviously beautiful to make us question the delicate balance of life. Flowers have always been a vital feature and inspiration to her work, she sees them as vessels of sentiment and enjoys the contrast of the metals and industrial paints she uses, suspending flowers within their natural cycle. Her works juxtapose beauty and seduction with unease and discomfort.

Victoria Scott is interested in the visceral nature of oil paint; her abstract work hints at organic forms, such as trees and flowers. She experiments with accidents manifested through the physical reactions of paint and the effects of splashing, blowing and dripping, contrasted with more deliberate ways of applying paint.

Lucy Farley’s work concentrates on specific places, mainly landscapes and cityscapes, with which she has a personal connection. Associated stories, events, myths and folklore often trigger a response that manifests itself through repeated first-hand observational drawing. She depicts personal representations, influenced memory, nostalgia and imagined scenarios.

David Price uses copper-plate etching – a traditional process that is laborious, meditative and intense. Through this technique, he is able to reach back in time and create his images from the depths of the past. He finds it “strangely comforting; to consider man’s enduring state of fear and terror as eternal, a condition of all times, as relevant then as now.” He reworks historical themes and ideas, bringing them into focus for the present day

Eleanor Ross’ works focus on the evolution of man and our desire for material wealth. Many of her projects take form from everyday items, reinventing the normal and mundane into something unrecognisable. Clutching at Straws is an eclectic assortment of fine yarns, combined with brightly coloured plastics and tubes to create intricate 3D lattice structures, which are used to explore possible footwear outcomes.

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