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Viewing  Matt Carey-Williams goes it alone with a duo of shows

Matt Carey-Williams is marking his solo foray with a curatorial project after leaving Victoria Miro with two concurrent shows, or “Episodes”, as he calls them. Bump at No.9 Cork Street spans the generations and techniques to explore the diversity of contemporary painting by the likes of Rob & Nick Carter, Ana Benaroya and Sara Birns. As the curator explains: “‘Bump’ revels in the texture and nuance of contemporary painting, from the muscular, starry amazonians of Ana Benaroya, through the bourgeois disquiet of Marc Dennis, to the visceral abstraction of Savannah Marie Harris. Contemplating the past and heralding the future, ‘Bump’ will serve as a model for future Episodes at different spaces around the world.”

Scene I: Glen Pudvine, Mug saw him inaugurate his permanent space at 12 Porchester Place last month. We’ll be watching closely as Carey-Williams shakes up the London art scene…

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Dates
07 March 2024 — 05 April 2024

Viewing  A wild night out with Doron Langberg

Doron Langberg leads us on a riotous night out and into the early hours of the next day at Victoria Miro gallery in his solo exhibition, Night. The New York-based artist’s large-scale paintings offer a journey into nocturnal worlds, both interior and exterior, exploring our search for connection and liberation.

Works are named after queer New York club nights and venues, starting with Merge, depicting the monthly party where there’s a broad range of sexualities and gender expressions, as the artist puts it. “For me it was really what started this body of work, just how free I felt in that space… and really special moments I’ve had.” In his wild, highly charged works, dancing figures emerge from – or recede into – their surroundings, and you can almost hear the beat. Join in the fun…

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Dates
26 January 2024 — 28 March 2024

Viewing:  Jodie Carey upends sculptural traditions at Bishopsgate

British artist Jodie Carey’s towering, highly textured sculptures are transforming the glass atrium of 100 Bishopsgate as part of Brookfield Properties’ Beyond the Matrix exhibition series, giving a platform to female artists. Produced in partnership with The Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA), the two shows pair an artist and a curator (Eve Miller of Edel Assanti, in this instance).

Carey draws on making skills with a feminine past in her sculptures. “Juxtaposing crafts traditionally associated with women allows me to make work that offers a counterpoint to the traditional idea that sculpture needs to be heavy, solid, carved or cast, but instead can be sewn or woven, made by women and created in places outside the studio,” she explains.

Next up will be Amelia Bowles in September, in a show curated by Mille Jason Foster of Gillian Jason Gallery. Both artists explore the relationship between space, mass and materiality in works that will be beautifully offset by their glass surrounds.
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