PREVIEW

Tongue-In-Cheek at Brick Lane Gallery

A mix of art comedy, street art and illustration. Featuring everyone’s favourite fried friend Dick Chicken; beautifully detailed and illustrated pieces by Showchicken and the neon craziness of Bortusk Leer.

Expect paintings by James Rueben Stephens exploring the darker side of humour; Playboy Jigsaw puzzles by Shuby; satirical prints designed by street art duo Static and a collaborative venture addressing the banality of gun usage by Holly-Anne Buck (Mink Engine) vs Metals vs Box Wars.

BORTUSK-tongue-in-cheek

A Xmas Show @ The Brick Lane Gallery
Opening 22/12/2010 from 6pm
Open on selected days 23/12/2010-03/01/2011

Featured artists
Bortusk Leer | Dick Chicken | Holly-Anne Buck (Mink Engine) vs Metals vs Box Wars | James Rueben Stephens | Showchicken | Shuby | Static

ART-PIE

CONTEMPORARY ART, PREVIEW

Diana Taylor – Alpha Beta, at Room

After-All, DIANA TAYLOR

Diana Taylor’s work, consisting of painting and drawing that will invade the gallery at every level from floor to ceiling operating between and making connections with paintings on birch ply panel.

The works, which combine figuration with a varied pictorial language, at times appear to be constructed of torn pieces from comics, patterned papers and other printed ephemera, but are actually painted. Continue reading Diana Taylor – Alpha Beta, at Room →

CONTEMPORARY ART

The Rise and Decline of Young British Artists

The Physical Impossibility of Death - Damien Hirst

It is now almost 25 years since we first heard about the “Young British Artists”, a phrase popularly abbreviated to YBAs. Of course, the graduates from London’s Goldsmiths College who began their commercial careers by exhibiting in dilapidated warehouses and empty factories – most notably Damien Hirst in the 1988 Docklands exhibition Freeze – were not initially known by this term. Continue reading The Rise and Decline of Young British Artists →

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