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Viewing The Male Gaze: From Larry Stanton to Now

Explore the power of the male-on-male gaze at The Artist Room this July as works by a radical group of contemporary artists go on display alongside unseen drawings by Larry Stanton, the New York-based portrait artist who tragically died in 1984 of AIDS-related complications, aged just 37.

Over the course of his short life, Stanton documented in his sketches and paintings the liberating pre-AIDS queer scene and the bohemian spirit in the city and beyond. ‘People make their own faces and Larry knew this instinctively,’ said Stanton’s friend and artist David Hockney.

Elsewhere, you’ll find works by Kenneth Bergfeld, Jimmy DeSana, Paul P. and Leon Pozniakow, the multi-disciplinary artist who draws inspiration from personal memories to explore the gay experience and love. Also included are works by Cary Kwok, who is best known for his graphic drawings which depict erotic — even fetishist — scenes.

Shown together, these works reveal the beauty found in fleeting and unexpected encounters. The result is superb and will leave you wanting more.

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Dates
05 July 2022 — 30 July 2022

Viewing Beatrice Hasell-McCosh: Of Silence and Slow Time

This bijou show is one to tell your friends about. Installed across the Garden Museum, now housed in the magnificently restored church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, Of Silence and Slow Time features a series of monumental oils and small works on paper by Beatrice Hasell-McCosh. Based between London and Cumbria, the British painter looks to natural forms and the tradition of landscape painting to explore emotional themes linked to place and human connection.

Inspired by the Cumbrian garden she grew up in, this body of new work charts the seasonal changes during the 2020 lockdown. ‘I drew comfort from the routine of making small watercolour sketches in the garden,’ she says. ‘As humans shrunk away from each other the reassuring continuity and cycle of nature became completely absorbing to me. Over a period of six months, I watched and drew from the same spots continuously seeing plants grow up, crowd together (in antithesis to human society) blooming and dying and being replaced with the new.’

As you meander around the lofty Nave, you’ll encounter verdant foliage, alliums, primulas and tulips, executed in a palette of rich, earthy hues, every which way you look. Cocooned from the hustle and bustle of London’s busy streets, you’ll experience a sense of calm immediately woosh over you. Never has the Garden Museum looked — or felt — so good.

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Dates
29 June 2022 — 24 July 2022

Viewing Laura Gannon

Laura Gannon is having a good year. She’s showing work in the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition and at the forthcoming edition of Frieze London in Regent’s Park. She’s also enjoying her second solo show at Kate MacGarry in London.

Installed across the main space of the gallery, the exhibition brings together new painted works on linen, with punctures, apertures and interwoven elements painted in bold, simple inks and acrylic, and a new film titled Glass House, which looks at a modern church on the west coast of Ireland and the relationship of Ireland to modernity and the landscape.

Shown together, they reveal Gannon’s enduring interest in themes of temporality, light and space, as well as the act of mark making itself. Few works will make you actively look — and think — as much as these will. Get yourself to Shoreditch sharpish.

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Dates
24 June 2022 — 23 July 2022
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