With a whole day of exhibitions comming up on Thursday I thought I had better box up the ones I’ve already seen.

As our assessment week approached Adam gave me a list of shows to vivit.

I read the email- great a plan. A few I had already seen and any excuse to go back to the Mark Bradford show was well recived.

Hi Chalkie
There’s a few exhibitions happening right now, that might be of interest:
Peter Davies – The Approach
Albert Oehlen – Serpentine Gallery
Henning Strassberger – Blain Southern
X-Mark Bradford – Hauser and Wirth

X-Lisa Brice – Stephen Friedman Gallery

Celia Paul – Victoria Miro

Keep checking on newexhibitons.com / Exhibitionary / Art Rabbit for an updated exhibition list. Have a good week.

I add a few more which where near by.

X-Freud -RA

Link – https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/lucian-freud-self-portraits

X-Colnaghi- “From Michelangelo to Matisse: Five Centuries of Master Drawings and Works on Paper”http://www.colnaghi.com/exhibition.php?ide=41

Damien Hirst – White Cube

https://whitecube.com/exhibitions/exhibition/damien_hirst_masons_yard_2019

My first week with our crit feed back at the end was spent in bed ….dying- this confirmed my hatred of winter colds so I read up on Adams suggestest gallery visits and watched films about the artists.

By Friday I was well enough to drive and I went for my Crit. feed back.

I could have been told anything and I would have justed nodded and said great, I was still on another planet. In fact I was supprised it was good feed back very constructive.

Though my hazy cold filter, I managed to take alot on board and saw a chink of light. I feet much calmer and I think I have a much better grasp of what I can do. I have had an inkling that change was a foot since the navigator project. The sort of change that I quizzed Isabel about during her course presentation at the April Open day. New meduims to filter my research/exploration/work though but I’m inexplicabbly drawn back to 2D manual play to consolidate it- Drawing then painting. I’m still a little unsure of the path but can see light through the trees- it is much less of a worry. I am off into cupboards again rummaging, “skipping”, photographing and filming. Drawing and painting my thoughts and rediscoveries once I’ve untrashed my piles of research.

I’m not making excuses for what I like doing, I’m ok just to get on with it now- come hell or high water. I feel less like an imposter and a bit more like me with sharper elbows. I find myself saying yeh what ever and I dont stop to help every time I’m asked for quite as long as I did. A mixed combo of everyone having to do without me and finding they being told by others to do it themselves…. thats how you learn. True.

Friday afternoon post Colledge I hit the westend-

Lisa Brice – Stephen Friedman Gallery–

https://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/lisa-brice/

Very intresting and a new discovery for me, I had researched her last year but not seen any work. I love the attitude and her screen was beautiful the way the light move though and around it. I was very intreeged by her use of paint on tracing paper. I realised I miss figurative painting along with screens. May be I can do some Trypics they would have to have cut outs or some form of transparencey. The naked figeres were some how friendly and strong with beer and fags. The exhibtion blurg was facinating and I found a pod cast below.

Great podcast all about Lisa Brice – Click the link

https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLnNvdW5kY2xvdWQuY29tL3VzZXJzL3NvdW5kY2xvdWQ6dXNlcnM6Njk4ODAwNzg1L3NvdW5kcy5yc3M&episode=dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmFja3MvNzA3OTk3NDY2&hl=en-GB&ved=2ahUKEwi5gufwzJTmAhXZiVwKHeurA3cQjrkEegQIBhAE&ep=6&at=1575208489446

I made it to three Galleries, met my middle daughter who really took to the Lisa Brice, I had to do a fair amount of explaining, I think the podcast did a job than the gallery blurb. Then we moved on to the Mark Bradfords.

Mark Bradford

Link: https://www.hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions?location=10056

I really enjoy the show again, the curration makes it really esay to view. I now prefer and am drawn to the abstracts that are beggin to to take figurative forms in my head. The connections I am making in my mind go straight back to the stories of Hades and the Greeks multi-headed black guard Dog of the Underworld, ‘Cerberus’ apon which Mark Bradford has loosly based these works. Mark Bradford is examining human/social containment and exclusion imposed by boarders and barrierers. The textures and markmaking is facinating and draw me in. the canvases are violent in places and soft and silky in others giving the two sides to how he views this issue. He is careful not to make too strong a statement. It is an over view of the contempary situation with historial refferances. He makes no comment he allows us to examin our own stance.

I went again on Saturday and was pleased my husband enjoyed it but he announced at then end he hated the gallry blub. I’m surprised, I understoop and appreciated the gallery blurb. I’m in two minds about my change of view and ability to comprehend. I decide that this does not not mean I approve of the sometimes over arty speak that is used but my understanding it allows me to critacally asses how the gallery is trying to frame Mark Bradford’s work. I joit a note to self -’never use over the top arty farty jargon for the sake of it you may alienate a large part of your audience. Drink beer and smoke fags.’