Plus 1 - Chloe Le Tissier

Jaya Mansberger has offered here Plus 1 invite to Chloe  Le Tissier: 


In Chloe Le Tissier’s paintings animals are depicted in imagined landscapes juxtaposed from photos and magazines, and from life drawing and memory. On closer inspection the creatures do not belong to the landscapes, they are at odds with their surroundings, for example a lone penguin in a forest or a monkey and parrot perching on the back of a dog on a pink cliff path. Through these magical and playful scenarios a sense that something has just happened or is just about to happen is invoked. Also central to Chloe’s work is the bringing together of more abstract mark making with realistic depiction, which contributes to the ambiguous and dream-like atmosphere in the paintings. 

Plus 1- Matt Blackler

A Day At The Frontier. Matt Blckler

Just thought we would keep you updated with another artists to be part of our Plus 1 exhibition in January.  We are pleased to introduce Matt Blackler the Plus 1 invite of Wayne Adams.


Blackler's practise often explores an absurd logic, developed with a relation to objects and processes commonly found in society, these are altered through labour intensive and outmoded techniques to serve a warped master-plan. 

Plus 1

Heavenly Bodies. Jaya Mansberger. Oil on canvas

Working on our first exhibition for 2012:
Plus 1.  Tuesday 10th January - Friday 27th January. Old Fire Station.

Three selected artists have been offered a ‘Plus 1’  to invite another artist of their choice to exhibit alongside them in this uniquely created show.   

We are starting to select the work and are excited to be presenting these amazing paintings by Oxford artist Jaya Mansbereger.

Panorama

Iceberg in Mist, Eisberg im Nebel
1982. 70 cm x 100 cm. Oil on canvas

Gerhard Richter: Panorama
Covering nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Gerhard Richter: Panorama at Tate Modern  is a major retrospective exhibition that brings together together significant works from his remarkable career. An amazing colletion of  work including a couple of my favourite glass sculptural pieces.

The works together give a rich insight into the diversity of Richter’s practice and why his ideas and techniques have been so influential on painters over the past half-century. The challenge of photography as a means of image making informs many of the works, and  more obliquely his formative experiences of two totalitarian states.

His works do not attempt to describe the world around us though often they reflect it, but rather to explore the technologies of this representation and the ways in which they inflect our perception. In his exploration of these technologies painting remains a pre-eminent tool. As such, probably no other artist has done more to sustain the relevance and immediacy of painting as a mdium over the past fifty years.