This show could have been solid five-star material. But I only got to see it through the gallery’s window because the staff didn’t let me come in a quarter of an hour before their official preview even though the door was wide open. That’s for the best because what I did see – paintings of foliage familiar in style from Ikea wallpapers that the press release claims are metaphors for “colonisation and migration of bodies across the Atlantic” – deserved even less attention.
Kevin Brisco Jr But I Hear There Are New Suns
Kevin Brisco Jr
But I Hear There Are New Suns
★★☆☆☆
On until 18 November 2023
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Jacob Dahlgren
Jacob Dahlgren
When Anxieties Become Form
★★☆☆☆
The works are older than the artist’s last good idea.
Jordan Derrien
Jordan Derrien
Painted on a Wall of the Inn at Marlotte
★★☆☆☆
Derrien has his audience discussing the nature of paint drying out loud.
Tamsin Morse, Kris Lock, Casper Scarth, et al.
Tamsin Morse, Kris Lock, Casper Scarth, et al.
The Poplar Bestiary
★★★☆☆
This menagerie comes with no humanly comprehensible challenge.
Diego Marcon
Diego Marcon
Dolle
★★★☆☆
Idle work became indistinguishable from leisure, vegetative time-passing from family life.
Jennifer Bartlett
Jennifer Bartlett
In the House
★★★★☆
“Sky”, “roof”, “31”, a mantra turns into paint.
Vlatka Horvat
Vlatka Horvat
By the Means at Hand
★★☆☆☆
This closed circulation project speaks to and agrees with only itself.
