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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Auudi Dorsey
Auudi Dorsey
★★★★☆
Dorsey records the human experience with the true universalism of paint.
Soufiane Ababri
Soufiane Ababri
Their mouths were full of bumblebees
★★☆☆☆
Ababri’s paintings for the Grindr generation are more cartoonish than they are from life.
Justin Fitzpatrick
Justin Fitzpatrick
Ballotta
★★★★★
The reward for taking part in this experiment of life is ascension to the holy orders.
Stephen Willats
Stephen Willats
Time Tumbler
★★★★☆
Willats orders fragments of time, matter, and space into data packets on one side of the flow chart and puts them to use on the other.
RM
RM
A Story Backwards
★★☆☆☆
Having forgotten what the ‘dramatic’ in art stands for, visual artists today too often mistake hacked theory for stage directions.
Pauline Boty
Pauline Boty
A Portrait
★★★★☆
This exhibition mixes the woman and her legend, but without the air of mystery she enjoyed during her lifetime.
