Galleries magazine - page 15

LIVELY
PRESENCE
Jack Knox’s long association
with
Gerber Fine Art
, over five
decades, makes it appropriate
that he is having this retrospective
exhibition of paintings, pastels
and drawings at
Compass
Gallery
in Glasgow (Mar 27 to
Apr 19). A product of GSA in the
1950s Knox has long since
established himself as a major
Scottish figure, not only through
his distinctive art, but as a former
very influential teacher. Both a
superb draughtsman and an
accomplished painter, he brings
to all his work – in whatever
medium – a very personal approach,
which skilfully plays off animated
illustration against expressive
gestural brushwork, causing his
succulently coloured still-lifes and
evocative landscapes to take on a
lively presence all their own. (See
picture overleaf)
Bill Hare
There is huge regret there for
the passing of the old sociability
among dealers on the street but
also an edge of anticipation for
what the new Richard Rogers
development, plus the
anticipated agreement to the
artistic SPA, will mean long term.
Necessary change versus slow
decay?
Nicholas Usherwood
Second Home
International dealers
Cynthia
Corbett Gallery
have been
treating Cork Street as a central
London ‘home’ since 2007,
holding several shows there each
year and finding it an especially
useful rendezvous point for
overseas clients. In addition to
presenting their gallery artists,
they’ve also hosted The Young
Masters Art Prize on ‘The Street’
in 2012.
On Mar 31 they open the first
solo show for British Pop artist
Deborah Azzopardi at The
Gallery in Cork Street and in
June celebrate their 10th
Anniversary with a special group
exhibition at the same venue.
Azzopardi’s colourful, often
Lichtenstein-esque imagery is
familiar from retailers in over 50
countries, and her highly
collectable originals now
command serious figures . . .
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last Thursday of the month, it is
going to work – Luke Elwes has
their first solo show there.
Then there are those that have
stayed despite the need to leave
their existing spaces and, of
course, the two years-plus of
building chaos: viz
Mayor
and
Messum’s
. Mayor have moved
one door sideways and up into
the handsome first floor formerly
occupied by Ben Brown. Again a
much nicer gallery space –
currently showing Luis
Tomaselli’s lucid optical pieces –
but with obviously less footfall
and, as far as they are
concerned, more problematic, a
lack of substantial storage space
– most of their stock has to be
kept off-site. The feeling here
though is upbeat, the long term
possibilities worth waiting for. A
not dissimilar attitude to
Messum’s in fact, where the
move, from no.8 on the west side
to no.28 just opposite on the
east, won’t happen until much
later in the year, their current
spaces (showing the handsome
‘Eastern Influences’ exhibition to
15 March) then being refurbished
for unknown use. They bought
no. 28, the large modern ‘for hire’
space on the street last year and
they will only start to move in to it
after they have honoured the
space’s current contracts in July.
from left: W
ladyslaw Mirecki ‘Walberswick Pier and Moon’ watercolour, at Chappel Galleries
Laurence Edwards ‘Man of Stones’ bronze and James Dodds ‘Framed Up’ oil on linen, both at
Messum’s Fine Art. Luke Elwes ‘Pasted Graphic 1’ at Adam Gallery. Right: Deborah Azzopardi, ‘Freedom!’
acrylic on board, at The Cynthia Corbett Gallery
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