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modern fabulists modern fabulist - a composer of fables, a teller of tales, a liar... an artist
View Art Gallery in association with Coates & Scarry present an international group show featuring some of the most exciting contemporary artists from America and Europe Modern Fabulists April 22 - May 29, 2011
View Art Gallery 159-161 Hotwells Road Bristol BS8 4RY United Kingdom for enquiries: +44 (0)5603 116753 sarah@viewartgallery.co.uk
KAREN AKESTER DAN BALDWIN LAUREN BERGMAN SCOTT BROOKS DEEDEE CHERIEL LORI FIELD ANGELA LIZON MARCO MAZZONI JACOB ARDEN McCLURE HAYLEY MURPHY ANNE FAITH NICHOLLS CORINE PERIER PEPA PRIETO DAVID STEIN DEREK WEISBERG KIRSTY WHITEN
Karen Akester “These figures highlight the fragmented nature of a fragile memory; the surfaces are distressed and uneven, suggesting an incomplete picture.”
Astro Boys x 2 (right) bronze, glass, wood H 29cm SOLD
Cardinal Aspirations bronze, glass, wood H 24cm SOLD
A Loose Fit bronze, wood H 30cm £2,095
Swithering Gilbert bronze, glass and wood, H 20cm ÂŁ1,265
“Modern Fabulists showcases these most talented artists with strong styles and voices, individuals who can recreate their truly unique imaginations in exceptional art.� Chippy Coates, co-curator of Modern Fabulists
Dan Baldwin (UK) Baldwin’s allegorical paintings are about life but within them we see everything from recurring death, decay, symbolism and themes such as war, religion, politics, beauty, nature and innocence.
The Road to Hell (after Bosch) mixed media, 100 x 100 cm £6,300
Right: Death at the Parade (after Mexico) mixed media, 90 x 90 cm £6,300
Left: Relics ceramic, H 45 cm ÂŁ2,625
Right: Untitled ceramic, H 45 cm ÂŁ2,100
Lauren Bergman (USA) Mythologised interpretations of an iconic time in Western culture include references to American childhood icons and those Slim Aarons portraits of an unblemished, luxurious world of beautiful girls, bikinis and the 1950s.
Dive oil on paper, 94 x 76 cm ÂŁ2,360
Counting Sheep oil on paper, 46 x 81 cm £1,700
Rubber Ducky You’re the One oil on paper, 79 x 100 cm £2,625
Scott Brooks (USA) Twisted and offbeat, sentimental and disturbing... “I take social and psychological and political issues and inject them with a dark sense of humour”
Driven by Attraction oil on canvas, 76 x 76 cm £3,470
The Widow and the Birdwife (right) oil on linen, 61 x 61 cm £2,510
Deedee Cheriel (USA) “I continually explore how we try to connect to others and our surroundings; how satirical and heroic efforts are episodes of compassion and discomfort”
Radial History of Eloquence spray paint and acrylic on wood, 91 x 61 cm £1,925
Our Interpersonal Drama is Totally Bumming Me Out spray paint and acrylic on wood, 46 x 38 cm ÂŁ1,025
Infinite Quest spray paint and acrylic on wood, 36 x 28 cm SOLD
Blinding You With What’s Behind Me spray paint and acrylic on wood, 36 x 28 cm £833
Angela Lizon (UK) “I paint large canvases as a way of removing the original throwaway image from its mantlepiece scale and transforming it into something far more menacing, with a touch of absurdity.”
Could Have Been a Contender oil on canvas, 164 x 120cm £4,410
Indian George from Cheddar Gorge (right) oil on canvas, 150 x 122 cm £4,410 Between a Rock and a Hard Place (over page) oil on canvas, 177 x 86 cm SOLD
Lori Field (USA) “My drawings are a stream of consciousness, outtakes from worlds depicted from within original collages - they straddle a border between reality and dream, past life and present”
I’m Just Wild About Saffron (right) coloured pencil on rice paper, 41 x 41 cm £3,075
Double Happiness coloured pencil on rice paper, 51 x 51 cm £3,333
Waiting for Dodo coloured pencil on rice paper, 41 x 41 cm £3,075
Marco Mazzoni (Italy) Surreal and darkly romantic portraits of women engulfed by birds are mysterious and disturbing and at the same time exquisitely beautiful.
Agrippina (front cover) coloured pencil on paper, 25 x 25 cm SOLD
Huitzopochti (right) coloured pencil on paper, 25 x 25 cm SOLD
Succuba coloured pencil on paper, 25 x 25 cm SOLD
Mandragola coloured pencil on paper, 25 x 25 cm SOLD
Jacob Arden McClure (USA) McClure’s work is deeply inspired by Postmodern America- it’s ideals, icons, trends, and atrocities of everyday life. Blending and layering found imagery he creates symbolically autobiographical works that often carry a sense of nostalgia.
The Queen (left) giclee print, edition of 5 61 x 91 cm SOLD Third Party Control (right) giclee print, edition of 5 61 x 91 cm £490 (framed) - 1 available
Evidence of One (over page left) giclee print, edition of 5 61 x 91 cm £490 (framed) - 1 available Falling Victim (over page right) giclee print, edition of 5 61 x 91 cm £490 (framed) - 1 available
Hayley Murphy (USA) “I have an active imagination, anything can set me off - pain, weirdness, environments that make my insides hurt or feel good, people having intense emotions in front of me.”
Delicious photographic print, 56 x 37 cm, edition of 15 £1,160 (framed)
Symbol of Friendship photographic print, 56 x 37 cm, edition of 15 ÂŁ1,160 (framed)
Anne Faith Nicholls (USA) A unique artist, born with a backwards heart, often communicated in her work alongside references to inspirational storytelling imagery.
Keeper oil on board, 38 x 24 cm SOLD
Le Champion oil on canvas, 153 x 92 cm SOLD
Looking Out From Within oil on canvas, 127 x 152 cm ÂŁ2,175
Hold Back Against The Nay Sayers oil on canvas, 61 x 51 cm ÂŁ820
Corine Perier (France) “I explore the meeting of different species through supernatural wildlife mutation. They are not animal portraits but my own vision of life in a disturbed world” Les Éclaireurs (right) oil on board, 73 x 60 cm SOLD Le Gardien du Secret oil on board, 73 x 60 cm £2,770
Au Coeur de L’Ours oil on board, 73 x 60 cm £2,770
Pepa Prieto (Spain) “I think, look, think, write, sketch, write - I always travel with a pencil and sometimes a camera then I use acrylics, silk-screens, pencils, wood and whatever I need for a project.”
Cuando La Cuerda No Tira Más acrylic and ink on paper, 50 x 70 cm £1,745
El Columpio acrylic and ink on paper, 50 x 70 cm ÂŁ1,745
David Stein (USA) “I’m inspired by the oddities of the world, fables, alchemy, sherbet El Caminos, ships stuffed into bottles and the seductive allure of triangles” Barnacle to Goose (right) oil on panel, 61 x 46 cm £1,640 Cunning Hill Toes Through Park oil on panel, 61 x 46 cm SOLD
Bottled Premonitions oil on panel, 52 x 41 cm £1,180
Derek Weisberg (USA) “I create works of art that are emotional and psychological self-portraits. I aim to make sense of my life, my experiences, and the times I live”
Porcelain Promises 1 porcelain and fabric, H 80 cm SOLD
Porcelain Promises 2 porcelain and fabric, H 80 cm £995
Porcelain Promises 3 (right) porcelain and fabric, H 80 cm £995
Kirsty Whiten (UK) “I want to create an off-balance psychological portrait, trying out scenarios with models until something starts to happen; stories unfold, tensions brew.”
Interred Monkey pencil, water colour on paper 67 x 56 cm £1,100
Threat, Wild Garlic (right) pencil, water colour on paper 67 x 56 cm SOLD
“This innovative collaboration brings extraordinary new talent to Bristol from America and Europe, enhancing the resurgence in the city’s contemporary art scene.” Nick Waugh, View Art Gallery
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