Galleries - September 2012

MAP 29 LONDON ST JAMES’S a AKTIS GALLERY 10-11 Park Place, London SW1A 1LP From Avant-Garde to Non-Conformism: 20th Century Russian Emigré Art. Jul 26–Nov 17. E. Lissitzky, M. Dobuzhinsky, A. Benois, M. Vassilieff, L. Survage, L. Tutundjian, A. Iacovleff, S. Poliakoff, A. Lanskoy, S. Charchoune, P. Kremegne, P. Dimitrienko, D. Krasnopevtsev, B. Sveshnikov, O. Rabin, O. Tselkov, V. Yankilevsky. info@aktis-gallery.co.uk www.aktis-gallery.co.uk Tue–Sat 10–2, 3–6 t 020 7629 6531 b CHRISTIE’S (StJames’s) 8 King Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6QT t 020 7839 9060 c GROSVENOR GALLERY 21Ryder Street, London SW1Y 6PX Modern Indian and 20th Century British Art. Olivia Fraser: Miniatures. Nov 1–16. 20/21 British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, Sep 12–16, Stand 30. Mon–Fri 9.30–5.50 art@grosvenorgallery.com www.grosvenorgallery.com www.grosvenorvadehra.com t 020 7484 7979 f 020 7484 7980 d ILLUSTRATIONCUPBOARD 22 Bury Street, St James’s, SW1Y 6AL The Annual Film & Animation Exhibition. Mr Benn, 50. GALLERIES SEPTEMBER 12 Danger Mouse, Aardman Animation. Aug 15–Sep 15. Where My Wellies Take Me by Michael Morpurgo and illustrated by Olivia Gill. Sep 20–29. Book launch and exhibition. Open weekdays9.30–6, Sat 11–5 gallery@illustrationcupboard.com www.illustrationcupboard.com t 020 7976 1727 e MARTYN GREGORY 34 Bury Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6AH Early English Watercolours, British Paintings. Also leading specialist in China Trade Paintings and pictures relating to the Far East. Mon–Fri 10–6 mgregory@dircon.co.uk www.martyngregory.com t 020 7839 3731 f 020 7930 0812 f OLYVIA FINE ART 17 Ryder Street, London SW1Y 6PY Contemporary Chinese art including Western, Modern and Contemporary. Diversity in Style: British Art for the Future, featuring Chris Holt, James Rawson, Mike Edwards, Russell Oliver, Ryan Oliver, Silent Hobo, Stephen Tribbell. Aug 30–Sep 28. *ad Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat/Sun by appt oms@olyviafineart.com www.olyviafineart.com t 020 7925 2986 m 0759 051 5819 g PAISNEL GALLERY 9 Bury Street, St James’s, London SW1Y 6AB 20th C. British Art, Post-War and St Ives. At 20/21 British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, Sep 12–16, Stand 32. Mon–Fri 10–6 info@paisnelgallery.co.uk www.paisnelgallery.co.uk t 020 7930 9293 f 020 7930 7282 h PANTER & HALL 27 Bury Street, London SW1Y 6AL Mike Bernard: ‘Recent Works’. Sep 12–28. Richly coloured mixed media works by this perennially popular painter revisiting many of his best loved subjects –Cornwall, Devon, the Amalfi coast, Venice and London. Malcolm Teasdale: ‘Lampblack’. Sep 18–28. The artist’s warm hearted, gently humorous paintings of his memories of a bygone era in the industrial north. 20/21 British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, Sep 12–16, Stand 38. enquiries@panterandhall.com www.panterandhall.com Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat by appt t 020 7399 9999 f 020 7499 4449 P I C C AD I LL Y N C E'S A R C A D E A R CAD E P A R K P L S T J A M E S ' S P L R YD ER S T R E E T BU R Y STREE T D U K E S T R E E T K I N G S T R E E T JERMY N ST R EET PA LL M A LL PICCADI ST JAME S 'S STREE T MASON'S YARD a e g d h l k j i f c b At first sight Louise McClary’s paintings, derived as they are from constantly walking and closely observing a small patch of landscape around her home in the north-east of the Lizard Peninsula, might seem to fit within a quite well-worn English artistic tradition of the spirit of place. Look only a little harder and it quickly becomes apparent, however, that there are other very different forces at work here that take McClary well beyond trite definitions and lift her far above any such lazy label that you might attach to her work. For, like one of her great painter heroes, the American Abstract Expressionist Joan Mitchell, who spent her last decades living near Monet’s Garden at Giverny, specific ideas of the garden and the flora of the landscape become transmuted, in a painting like Caught in the Mantilla of Empty Trees, into an altogether more significant experience of place, grand arenas of artistic experience distilled resonantly onto that surface and within that space. ( Adam Gallery, Bath (map 14) and Adam London (map 28). NU THUMB nails