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
London
W11 1LR
Open Wednesday – Sunday, 12pm – 6pm
and by appointment

For further information see
www.themuseat269.com
www.massouras.co.uk

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

PREVIEW: Solo show of Sculpture by Daniel Sodhi-Miles,

A Solo show of Sculpture by Daniel Sodhi-Miles

Preview: Tuesday 3rd November '09, 6-9pm
Show lasts: Wednesday 4th November - Sunday 22nd November '09

Is a self taught carpenter and sculptor.

Daniels work is ever evolving, often beginning with simple primary forms and numbers and shifting gradually. His work is primarily concerned with love and the interconnections within his life to others. Many of the objects he creates appear calm and aesthetically pleasing, yet the processes used in their creation are often incredibly noisy, dusty and aggressive. Most of these pieces are born quite violently and very rapidly as the act of working upon them is an acute focus of intent upon the material gradually relenting to the final caress of finishing touches.
His work seems able to cross some of the supposed boundaries between art and craft as he tends to use many traditional and some may say obsolete skills and tools alongside computer aided design and manufacturing processes to create contemporary interventions and objects.

He lives and works in Cornwall.

www.danielsodhi-miles.co.uk

PREVIEW: Recent Works by Rhonda Whitehead, Tues 13th October, 7-9pm

Recent Works by Rhonda Whitehead

Exhibition : Tuesday 13th October until Sunday 1st November 2009

Rhonda Whitehead is returning to London for her solo exhibition at the Muse at 269. She last exhibitited in London at the art fair in Islington in 2007.

All works included in the exhibition are from the last ten years, She now lives and works on the Norfolk, Suffolk borders. Since leaving London she has been professionally active having 6 solo exhibitions. Two at the Grapevine Gallery, Norwich reviewed enthusiastically by the critics Christopher Smith and Mary Rudd. Two at the AWD gallery Halesworth, Suffolk and two in Cambridge. One at Clare Hall Gallery and one at Kings Arts Centre. Her painting Venice Ochre won first prize at the
Byard Open exhibition in 2006 in Cambridge. She has also taken part in various mixed shows and open studios exhibitions.

Her preoccupation with colour and structure remain constant in recent works in oil on paper and oil on canvas, drawing a link between the forces in nature and the patterns of weathering and erosion on structures and buildings. In 'Italian city buildings', colours appear flattened onto the canvas revealing what is there ---- peeling surfaces, spidery scratchy writings in the paint ---- all executed with a generous freedom.

Open daily Wednesday to Sunday 12 noon -- 6pm or by appointment
‘The Muse’ at 269 Portobello Rd LondonW11 1LR
For more information email info@themuseat269.com
www. rhondawhitehead.com