Helen Booth

Painter based in Wales

Helen Booth portrait, photo Chip Skingley

Booth working recently in plein air, photo Leia Morrison.

Recent residency: 2020 Hafnarborg Residency Iceland 

artist’s studio

 ‘My recent paintings concentrate on the limitless variations of the single dot and how the individual marks when placed side by side create a dialogue....The internal alchemy, the human condition, of being and not being, of life and death are what I am striving to capture within my work. Agnes Martin stated succinctly in her Beauty is a Mystery of Life lecture in 1989 that “it is commonly thought that everything that is, can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work’. Excerpts artist website 

Erased, oil and wax on wood panel, 16 x 16 cm.

Mustard and Custard are both f*cking yellow, 2017, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm
exhibited in the group show ‘Roger Cecil + 4 contemporary painters at Oriel Myrddin Gallery

Group exhibition photo, ‘Roger Cecil + 4 contemporary painters at Oriel Myrddin Gallery

White Grid Painting, 2019, oil and gesso on canvas, 92 x 122 cm. 

'Helen Booth studied Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon School of Art and graduated in 1989. She has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and Europe. In April 2019, she was awarded two prestigious New York awards – A Pollock Krasner award for painting and an Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Prize for Abstract Painting. Booth won the Glynn Vivian Prize for Welsh Painting at BEEP International Painting Prize 2018.’ Elysium Gallery website


Images courtesy of Helen Booth (mostly)

Germano Celant

Italian art critic 1940-2020

Veneto Uno, Milan.

‘Celant is most closely affiliated with arte povera, a term he coined in 1967 for the association of avant-garde artists who made meaning from mundane materials and challenged art’s symbolic function, formal conventions, and commodity status in postwar Italian culture.’ Excerpt artnet

 

Prada Foundation, Milan.

‘In 1997, he curated the Venice Biennale, and also held roles as a curator at the Guggenheim, a contributing editor of Artforum and Interview magazines, and was the artistic director of the Prada Foundation in Milan at the time of his death.’ Excerpt artnet

Yves Klein, La Vague, 1957 at the Prada Foundation.

It was an 'art' changing event for me to go to Rome in 2013 and see Modern Italian art and later in 2015 to see the Prada Foundation with Adriano Pascquali. Italian Modern and Contemporary art is amongst the best in the world.

Gregory Coates

Gregory Coates with his works, Afro Series 1 and 2, 2018, feathers acrylic on luan, 4 feet diameter.

‘I pride myself on not being “labeled,” especially as an artist of color. On the one hand if you keep traveling across several art historical movements you never feel you fit anywhere, on the flip side I am proud of that too. I am not done exploring and asking questions of what’s there and what may be.’ Excerpt: ‘Gregory Coates, Claiming Feathers’ interview with Etty Yamiv, Art Spiel, 2018.

Big Cover ups, 2017 (Studio shot), ink on card board, 12 × 12'.

Monument to Civil Rights, 2017, installation, cardboard, door, various markings.

‘Coates exploratory studio practice and compositional experiments with found objects have established him as a prolific artist with a compelling and extensive catalog. He studied at Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. and has been exhibited at museums and galleries around the world including, the Smithsonian Institute of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Galerie Denkraum in Vienna, Austria, and Kamigamo Shrine in Kyoto, Japan among others.’ Excerpt ‘Abstract Truths: A studio visit with contemporary artist Gregory Coates’ Sugarcane Magazine 2018

Made in Harlem at my AIR at the studio museum, 1996-97,
tape, pigment, rubber, paper on shipping skids, 96 x 96 x 4”.

Photos courtesy of the artist.

Gregory Coates at N’Namdi Contemporary Miami

http://nnamdicontemporary.com/portfolio/gregory-coates/

Blank Boards

Art Thoughts has been missing shows in the real. 

Spotted today on a walk a wall of billboards blanked out. 

Made me think of the paintings of Steven Parrino and Robert Rauschenberg when he erased a de Kooning drawing.

Information about the de Kooning drawing can be found at the SFMOMA website: https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/98.298/

Billboards Melbourne

Billboards Melbourne

PiscinaComunale

Milan

'In 2013 I thought we don't use cotton tissues anymore but we all have them in the drawer and so I asked artist friends to send me a work on a tissue, it was a very beautiful exhibition and installed in an equally beautiful way by Marco Church' auto translated. Adriano Pasquali 

Selected images:

Art Thoughts goes retro ... with Adriano and Marinella

Louise P. Sloane

New Horizons
To March 28
Spanierman Modern
NYC NY

Gallery website: http://www.spaniermanmodern.com/

“The visual language of my paintings embraces the legacies of reductive and minimalist ideologies, while celebrating the beauty of color, and the human connection to mark making ...'' Louise P. Sloane, excerpt Spanierman Modern website.

Selected work:

Louise P. Sloane

Installation images via Louise P. Sloane

Untitled TZT043

Jan Hendriks and Evelyn Snoek

To March 22
BOS Fine Art
The Hague
Netherlands

Gallery website: https://bosfineart.com/en/

Selected work:

Jan Hendriks and Evelyn Snoek

Jan Hendriks and Evelyn Snoek

Evelyn Snoek

Installation images via Evelyn Snoek

Age Harsuiker

To March 30th
MFC It Maskelyn
Hurdegaryp NL


Drawing series: 'Belvedère & Ljocht yn e wâlden' Pastels on paper 190 x 140 cm

Selected works

Bram Bogart

Dutch born Belgium artist 1921-2012
To 7 March
White Cube Mason's Yard

 

White Cube: https://whitecube.com/

Bram Bogart Foundation: https://www.brambogart.eu/

'In these paintings colour is both subject and object, their heavy masses of paint swiped, dabbed, pushed or drawn across the canvas surface.... In a body of work spanning decades, Bogart has created sensual, organic paintings that sit somewhere between painting and sculpture: a fusion of colour, gesture and structure which breaks with pictorial tradition.' Excerpt White Cube 

Wit door zwart, 1971, Mixed media, 157 × 175 × 17 cm.

Yellow jubel, 1985, Mixed media, 210.5 × 180 × 18 cm.

Bram Bogart 

Images: White Cube and Bram Bogart Foundation

Steffen Schiemann

Evolution Negative
To April 5
Shoobil Gallery
Antwerp

Gallery website: https://www.shoobil.com/

Selected images:

Heidi Bucher

Swiss artist, 1926–1993

Untitled (Door to the Herrenzimmer), 1978, latex impression with mother of pearl pigment.

Official Website: https://heidibucher.com/

Nicolas Daubanes Jdp

France

Artist representation, Galerie Maubet https://galeriemaubert.com/artistes/nicolas-daubanes/

Selected images: wall drawings, iron powder on paper 

The process:

'Artist-Vandal, Nicolas Daubanes finds in the plastic precarious of his work a way to upset the power and authority of his subject. The drawing is not in proper drawing but rather laid, suspended from the paper, held by the only force of attraction of a magnetic surface. The pattern is first cut into a magnetic sheet, then placed on a metal plate and covered with white paper. The iron filings is then distributed to its surface and fixed by magnetization by mechanical marrying the form of the pattern. The weak balance of the material has the effect of making the drawing potentially ephemeral, itself trapped in a visibly fallible device, which cannot afford a second of release. The obvious non-durability of the building is supported by the irregularities of the line, which reveal more blurred surfaces, in a rendering close to an old postcard. The threatening impression left by the first sight then succeeds the feeling of an almost touching vulnerability to these buildings of the past, about to collapse.'
Florian Gaité, instructions for the FRAC Occitanie Montpellier (extract).

Mark Jones

Not in Service
To 23 February
Neon Parlour
Thornbury

Comeng Seat

Yard Fence

Train Door

Metro Vest

Yard Fence, Epping

Emerging artist, Mark Jones' exhibition explores the contemporary culture of underground graffiti artists utilising various traditional medias including photography, sculpture, collage and installation.

The found objects had an interesting effect in a gallery context, raising the perception of the discarded, forgotten and useless.





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Crossing Lines

Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat
To April 13
National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne 

Installation view

 'Keith Haring (American 1958–90) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (American 1960–88) changed the art world of the 1980s through their idiosyncratic imagery, radical ideas and complex socio-political commentary...' NGV website 

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Keith Haring

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Keith Haring

Selected images