PREVIEW: By Nature, Paintings by Katkin Pringle, 18th May 2010, 6-9pm

Private View: By Nature
Paintings by Katkin Pringle
PREVIEW:

Tuesday 18th May 2010, 6-9pm

EXHIBITION

Wednesday 19th May - Sunday 6th June 2010
Gallery opening times: Wednesday - Sunday, 12pm-6pm and by appointment
Entry Free

KATKIN PRINGLE

By Nature’ refers not to the subject matter of the works, but to the manner in which they are made. The encouragement of chance means the results are undetermined; the paint inevitably acquires independence and travels by the course of nature. As gravity pulls the fluids across the surface, evaporation, chemical reactions, temperature, paint viscosity, volume and order of play, unite to form a composition that is reminiscent of the natural world and it’s landscapes – a nebula, a volcanic explosion, a crashing wave…The energy of the process, causality and the diverse results, suggest themes of flux, endlessness and organic decay.

"I like thinking with materials; you move, it moves, towards a destination you haven't envisaged. The most rewarding thing is to come to a brand new form - what the Greeks call 'poesis' you get to a point where no one has been before."

(Quote by the sculptor Tony Cragg that amounts Katkin’s thoughts)

Katkin’s interests lie in the disposition of causality, the effect that possibilities can have on human experience, and the limits and potential of human knowledge. This show, ‘By Nature’ illustrates a combination of physical presence with abstract language; a mystical world in which one searches for recognition.

www.katkinpringle.com


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PREVIEW: At Home by India Ritchie, Tues 27th April 2010, 6-9pm

India Ritchie
At Home

The Muse at 269 Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by the British artist India Ritchie. Having exhibited in group shows in the UK, USA and Pakistan, Ritchie presents a collection of old and new work at Muse, consisting of printmaking, painting and photography.

Ritchie’s work investigates the overlapping of private and public space in the home and the effect, both emotional and behavioural, of habitation on the inhabitant.

Installation piece Behaviour Patterns, 2009 and the accompanying series of prints entitled Interior I and Interior II, 2009, focus specifically on the presence of public space in the home, and the trend in interior design for the idealistic representation of domestic living, achieved through the ordering of objects and ritualistic cleaning.

This ordering of objects in the home is apparent in Ritchie’s latest series of prints entitled Period Living, 2010. These new prints incorporate domestic compositions reminiscent of those found in museums; the television set placed at the heart of the space. These scenes appear to not only examine the role of television in the home, but also seem to question the validity of period representations of domestic interiors.

The general absence of figures in Ritchie’s work gives the viewer a sense that she examines the prevalent themes in her work objectively. However, from discussion with the artist, it becomes apparent that many of the elements in her work are a deliberate, if somewhat secretive, reference to her own experience of home life. This playful interweaving of memory with an extensive body of theoretical research is characteristic of Ritchie’s work.

Previous group shows include New Prints/Autumn’09 at IPCNY, New York; Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious at The Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Philadelphia; Spinning Tongues at Vibe Bar Gallery, London; This Is England at The Spiral Staircase, Lancashire then traveling to Lahore, Pakistan; Presenting The Top 100 at Jealous Gallery, London, London Group Open at Menier Gallery, London; The 7th Annual British Mini Print Exhibition at The London Print Studio, London and 11 other UK venues.

PREVIEW: Make Your Mark, Tuesday 6th April '10

PREVIEW: Make Your Mark, Tuesday 6th April '10


Make Your Mark, Spring 2010.

Please come and feel free to unleash your creativity on our walls in multiple medias supplied by us.

Preview: Tuesday 6th April 2010, 6 -9pm
To run from Wednesday 7th April - Sunday 16th May '10

PREVIEW: Divers by Alexander Massouras, Tues March 16th, 6-9pm

The Muse at 269 presents:

ALEXANDER MASSOURAS
DIVERS
Private View 6.00 – 9.00 pm, Tuesday March 16th
Exhibition March 17th – 4th April 2010

269 Portobello Road
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W11 1LR
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and by appointment

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Muse at 269 is delighted to present Divers, a body of work created from images of spring-board divers in freefall. The series of paintings, drawings and etchings negotiates between formal paradigms, combining abstraction with mimetic representation, and denying the figure either a context or a void. Through the ambivalence of falling, the series occupies a space between optimism and pessimism. Divers are also rich in formal resonances, from images of crucifixion to Barnett Newman’s zips.

Alexander Massouras is a painter and printmaker. He currently holds a Leverhulme scholarship at Tate, where he is part of “Art School Educated,” a project investigating the post-war histories of London’s art schools. He has exhibited his work with galleries in the UK and the US, including: 7Eleven Gallery, New York; American Standard Gallery, Miami; and the Royal Academy, London. A selection of his work was also shown at the 2009 Northern Print Biennale at the Laing Museum in Newcastle. He was shortlisted for the 2010 Gilchrist Fisher award. Divers is his first solo show.

PREVIEW: Time by Justin Piperger, 23rd February, 6-9pm

TIME

An exhibition of new work by Justin Piperger

The Muse at 269
269 Portobello Road
London W11 1LR

Drinks at the Preview on Tuesday 23rd February 2010

The exhibition will run from Wednesday 24th February- Sunday 14th March 2010.
Gallery opening times wed - sunday 12pm to 6pm and by appointment.



Following on from his successful show at Muse last year and the sell out show at Lauderdale House,
Justin Piperger will be exhibiting a new body of work.
Subject matter for this exhibition include Sex Paintings made in Mysore last winter and Heath paintings.
Justin will also be showing some more functional pieces, placing useful objects in his pictures.

Justin will be painting in the gallery most wednesdays and fridays and loves visits.

Justinpip@yahoo.com
www.justinpiperger.com
www.themuseat269.com

Justin Piperger 07976 747 901

PREVIEW:Unseen Beauty, Photography by Hannah Palmer, Tues 2nd Feb '09, 6-9pm

Private View: Unseen Beauty
Photography by Hannah Palmer
PREVIEW:

Tuesday 2nd February 2010, 6-9pm

EXHIBITION

Wednesday 3rd to Sunday 21st February 2010
Open Wednesday to Sunday 12pm-5pm, with bar open until 12am

Entry Free



UNSEEN BEAUTY

After reading History at Newcastle University Hannah Palmer changed disciplines and took up photography, studying at the London College of Communications from where she graduated in June 2009. Since then she has been part of several exhibitions. Hannah enjoys using traditional film photography and darkroom methods to create her images.

Her debut solo exhibition is a collection of bold, B&W film prints that aim to capture unseen beauty in our everyday surroundings; moments that most people pass by without noticing. Hannah's landscapes use the frames of natural and human architecture to create images that aim to be instantly eye catching whilst also being full of detail and interest. Hannah would like to carry on her work as an artistic photographer whilst also expanding her work as a freelance photographer.

PREVIEW: Henry Bruce, Experimentalist or Artist? Tuesday 24th November, 6-9pm

Henry Bruce.
Experimentist or Artist?

It is not that Henry Bruce does this because he sees himself as an 'Artist' of any particular sect, but that his natural curiosity and his attempts to deconstruct and re-design everything around him, in order to find more understanding for himself, makes him so.
He has a deep animalistic affiliation with nature, recognising its grandness, its imperfect perfection; and its antidote - the machine, technology and all its elements. His materials - metal and plastic jiving against wood and bone - describe the harsh and imposing feelings these represent, playing on their similarly natural origins and birthplace. Resurrecting bones, bought to life in sculpture, he questions the balance between life & death, love & hate, organic & manmade, growth & destruction. Henry Bruce is reaching to fathom such extremes of the spectrum to gain a deeper understanding of his own mortality and fantasy. His fetish to peep inside the workings of lust and evolution, nurture and damage, culminates in this body of heartfelt work.
His daily walk between the two beasts, nature and technology, impregnating one with the other, examining the destruction of nature to make it more aesthetically pleasing, more humanly palatable, is what Bruce kicks against. Once known as "the boy of few words", and not without his own inner battles, this work pinpoints just a few of the places his argumentative imagination has lead him.

Show to run: Wednesday 24th November - Sunday 13th December '09