LOVE virus catalogue

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View Art Gallery presents a solo exhibition featuring Louie Simpson

LOVE virus November 2021

ViewArtGallery.co.uk for enquiries: contact@viewartgallery.co.uk


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.

To enquire or buy any work by Louie Simpson, visit our physical space in Bristol or our online gallery


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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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