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View Art Gallery presents a solo exhibition featuring Louie Simpson
LOVE virus November 2021
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Louie Simpson
LOVE virus ‘LOVE virus’ is an exhibition of paintings by Bristol artist Louie Simpson that demand attention. Created during and emerging from lockdown, the paintings reflect a period of diverse emotions - love, fear, sorrow and hope can be seen and felt in the intensity of colourful imagery. Louie Simpson is an artist who leaves nothing behind. He has a brain that is overflowing with ideas, usually chaotic. He has a body full of energy, seemingly infinite. He feels strong emotions, high and low. His work is a kind of therapy, an outlet of extraordinary rawness. The ‘LOVE virus’ collection is often autobiographical, sometimes explicitly self portraiture and other times an uncontrollable release of paint to canvas. Some paintings show the artist as a great observer of life, where they tell a story of a place a person at a moment in time. The mark-making style is raw and free but there is a complexity and sophistication in the meaning of the imagery. ‘LOVE virus’ is a fascinating journey of discovery into the mind of an artist and the emotional impacts of a pandemic.
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previous page: The Gathering mixed media on canvas 76 x 101 cm
left: Dumb Love mixed media on card framed 83 x 71 cm right: Apocolypse Later Mixed Media on Paper framed 48 x 36 cm
Bleeding Love
mixed media on paper (framed) 62 X 83 cm
Damaged and Hot
mixed media on canvas 122 X 91 cm
Kissing Tree
mixed media on canvas 76 X 101 cm
next page left: Robot Porn and the Tomorrows mixed media on canvas 76 X 101 cm
next page right: Jesus and Mickey @Seaside
mixed media on canvas 76 X 101 cm
Poundland Romance mixed media on board 89 X 122 cm
Knicker Trauma
mixed media on board 89 X 122 cm
Unfinished
mixed media on board 89 X 122 cm
left: Backbones
mixed media on canvas 76 X 51 cm
right: Glory to the Lost Its
mixed media on canvas 122 X 91 cm
left: Maytrees Girls
mixed media on canvas 122 X 91 cm
right: Love Is Blind
mixed media on canvas 101 X 81 cm
Love In Age Of Viruses mixed media on canvas 81 X 65 cm
Love Virus
mixed media on paper (framed) 43 X 35 cm
left: Space Man
mixed media on canvas 101 X 76 cm
right: Slave Lovers
mixed media on canvas 122 X 91 cm
Stapelton Road Blues mixed media on canvas 101 X 76 cm
Toy Time
mixed media on canvas 122 X 91 cm
left: Self Portrait
mixed media on canvas 62 X 83 cm
right: The Lovers
mixed media on canvas 101 X 81 cm
LOUIE and BEN Louie has collaborated with friend and fellow artist Ben Young for three large paintings in the exhibition. Ben Young is an artist originally from London, often working and residing in New York and occasionally staying in Bristol. He graduated from Central St Martins, London, in 2007, with an MA in Fine Art. Ben paints gestural, often collage-based paintings in a process that embraces and pushes the nature of intuition and accident in making. His early interest in Bacon and Freud followed by a Pollock phase, influenced the development of his work. After a phase of what he calls ‘serious painting’ he returned to abstract impressionism. The idea of disorder plays a key role in the thought process for his work. In the limited space of the canvas he is constantly experimenting to see how he can depict disorder and chaos in a convincing way. “I’m a real nature lover and I think the balance of entropy and decay with new, thrusting life enthralls me. This aesthetic awareness has entered my work”.
Krakatoa
mixed media on canvas 160 X 180 cm
Big Daddy Pink
Mixed Media on Canvas 170 X 190 cm
Twoism
Mixed Media on Canvas 120 X 130 cm
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