Gallery run 16th February

Battersea, then east along the Thames.

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Stephen Sutcliffe at Simon Lee Gallery. This artist has also exhibited with Rob Tufnell.

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Vauxhall City Farm in the heart of London.

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John McCracken of Almine Rech Gallery with early plastic sculptures.

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Sonia Boyce at ICA, with multi screen installations of choreographed sound and movement.

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Jana Euler at Cabinet Gallery with images of objects that have somehow had their edges moved to the middle.

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Antoni Tapies of Timothy Taylor. Late works.

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Sherrie Levine of Simon Lee Gallery with cartoon imagery in artist made frame.

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DeWain Valentine of Almine Rech Gallery with translucent plastic sculptures in a group show.

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Dennis Oppenheim at Simon Lee Gallery with a video installation.

Gallery run 26th January

West to East.

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Augustus Thompson at Almine Rech Gallery with evocative paintings made on aluminium honeycomb.

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Street art on Brick Lane.

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Anna Zacharoff of Vilma Gold with sea life imagery.

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Sophie Bueno Boutellier of The Approach with delicate paintings on folded canvas.

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Amalia Pica of Herald Street with a sculpture using a drainpipe and broccoli.

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Peter Liversidge at Kate Macgarry with objects with faces on.

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Park Seo Bo of White Cube with paintings made of fine mulberry pulp paper that have been shaped and scored with a stick.

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Takashi Murukami at auction in Christies.

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Wilhelm Sasnal at auction in Christies.

Gallery run 8th December

Battersea Park, Hyde Park.

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Magnus Plessen at White Cube with painted portraits of him and pregnant wife.

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Zaha Hadid at the Winton Gallery of the Science Museum.

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Richard Oelze at Michael Werner with slightly surreal landscapes.

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Zaha Hadid early paintings at Serpentine Gallery. This is London with a skewed viewpoint in the artist’s customary (as we discover) style.

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Gavin Turk with his famous blue plaque given pride of place in Newport Street Gallery. There is plenty more and a great show.

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Huma Bhabha at Stephen Friedman with carved polystyrene figures.

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Lee Friedlander at Pace Gallery with an ironic take on the subject object relationship in photography. It’s his shadow not mine!

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Peter Peri at Almine Rech with circular heads on the bronzes made of cast tape rolls and loo rolls.

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David Shrigley of Stephen Friedman Gallery exhibiting on the 4th plinth.

Gallery run 27th October

Regent’s Canal from the west to Hackney.

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Tony Cragg at Lisson Gallery with sculptures inspired by organic and technological forms.

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Maureen Gallace at Maureen Paley with work inspired by the artist’s local landscape.

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Eddie Martinez of Timothy Taylor at Frieze 2016 sculpture park.

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Rallou Panagiotou at Ibid Gallery with sculptures inspired by a derelict holiday resort.

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Tala Madani at Pilar Corrias with a metaphysical take on disco.

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Nairy Bagrhamian at Marian Goodman Gallery in Frieze 2016 sculpture park.

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Ed Ruscha at Gagosian with works exploring ideas of extension in space and time.

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Jeff Koons at Almine Rech with recreations of old master paintings bearing a mirror ball. Inspiration from Kiss Of Judas by Giotto at The Arena Chapel in Padua.

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David Adamo at Ibid Gallery with small figures on ceder plinths.

Gallery run 22nd September

This week West to East. Then canal to Limehouse. Plus additional previous run to Casa Abierta at the Argentine Embassador’s residence.

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Shezad Dawood Kalimpong at Timothy Taylor with images from past and present of this small town in Bengal worked together.

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Amalia Pica of Herald Street showing at Casa Abierta.

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Celia Paul at Victoria Miro. Wow! There is really very little there to create this striking image.

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Erik Lindman at Almine Rech with steel sheet and paint images. The windows were opened to the gallery and the light coming through them accentuated the reflections on the metal including a line cut with angle grinder.

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Tacita Dean at Frith Street Gallery filming David Hockney in his studio having a cig break.

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Nigel Cooke at Pace Gallery with images transforming nature into iconic images of fire and the skull on base layers but layered atop with innocent flourishes from 19th century romanticism.

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Alison Katz at The Approach with paintings that match up in part to stories she tells on the press release about road trip adventures and other experiences of travel and discovery.

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John Cage musical score at Frith Street Gallery using systems of chance to make artistic decisions.

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Patricio Forrester with Artmongers presents Political Swing at Casa Abierta at the Argentine ambassador’s residence.

Gallery run 27th May

Visited Art 16 earlier in the week, then did the run. Tower Bridge, Brick Lane and Regent’s Canal. West past Kings Cross and Regent Street to Lisson Grove and along to Lisson Gallery. South to Timothy Taylor, Victoria Miro, Golden Square and Frith Street Gallery. South over Lambeth Bridge, across Walworth Road and through Burgess Park.
211At Art16. Alfredo and Isabela Quilizan produced these flip-flop angel wings.

218Cory Arcangel at Lisson Gallery. The digital displays are altered, the software hacked. The alphabet of corporate symbols is appropriated by the artist.

217Jean Dubuffet at Timothy Taylor. These fab sculptures grew out of red and blue biro doodles, we are told. The artist had made them whilst on the phone.

216Yayoi Kusama at Victoria Miro.

215Massimo Bartolini at Frith Street Gallery. The artist’s sound piece is played on this record player crowned with a brass cube. This unusual addition pays homage to Golden Square, the location of the gallery.

214Dora Maurer at White Cube. The hands form an alphabet of gestures.

213Stephane Graff at Almine Rech. A juxtaposition of text and image that is intended to jar one with the other.

212Galleryrunner saw this house connected to a railway arch near Walworth Road.

219Stanley Whitney at Lisson Gallery. These pastel grids put beauty before formalism.

Gallery runs extra photos

Favourite photos from the archive.

19a1Georg Baselitz at White Cube. These studies of the artist and wife in watercolour are great.

19a2Blair Thurman at Almine Rech Gallery. Loved the unfinished paint of this otherwise immaculate sculpture-painting. Photographed in April.

19a3Chantal Joffe at Victoria Miro. Loved this painting photographed in March.

19a4Sterling Ruby at Spruth and Magers with art to wear. Loved the colours of this work photographed in May.

19a5Jules de Balincourt at Victoria Miro. Beautiful colour and the light is almost tangible. A favourite photo from the archive.

19a6Nam June Paik at Tate Modern. A favourite photo I took on a gallery run in April.

19a7Matt Copson at Wilkinson Gallery. Great expletive-punctuated monologue from Reynard the Fox. But done with shrewdness by the artist.

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19a9Adam Buick at Corvi Mora in February. A favourite photo I hadn’t posted at the time. A solar system of pots.

Gallery run 21st April

The human figure rules this week in nudes, performance and abstract form.

169Richard Prince at Sadie Coles HQ. Reworked nudes with scribbles and big-footed figures.

168Maria Bartuszova at Alison Jacques with delicate plaster eggshell-like sculptures.

167Jenny Saville at Gagosian Gallery.

166Antony Gormley of White Cube has this statue on St Bride Street.

165Jean Luc Moulene at Thomas Dane.

164Apostolos Giorgiou at Rodeo Gallery.

163Anne Tallentire with propped building materials and her characteristic flashes of yellow and other DIY colours at Hollybush Gardens.

162.jpgPing pong balls.

161Keijiuematsu at Simon Lee

Gallery run 14th April

Pink and lilac colour coordination in this week’s randomly chosen shows.

15aEver wondered what colour a Martian sunrise is? Spencer Finch at Lisson Gallery has produced this simulacrum of it. Rosy pink!

15bAllen Jones at Michael Werner exploring the dominatrix motif.

15cBlair Thurman at Almine Rech Gallery

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15eSarah Lucas at Sadie Coles HQ with more stuffed tights and fab metaphors.

15fJohn Korner at Victoria Miro with falling apples, copious honey and vivid skies as motifs.

15gJohn Latham Spray Paintings at Lisson Gallery.

15hGabriel de la Mora at Timothy Taylor using materials that have a past life in a grid format. The CMYK ink is still visible on these metal printing plate fragments.

15iR. Crumb at David Zwirner with more heroic figures.

Gallery run 4th March

Woven Nordic landscape from Andreas Eriksson, two outdoor artworks from Lisson Gallery artists, figurative works by Jeff Koons, Steven Claydon and Chantal Joffe. Lastly a journey back to Bauhaus.
11A close up of Andreas Eriksson’s new work at Stephen Friedman. Still delicate, abstracted, Nordic landscape but now a new medium of just the linen alone, that he paints on.

112Saw this animated figure in Carnaby Street. A quick google confirms it is indeed by Julian Opie of Lisson Gallery.

113Early on the run looking for a place to cross the Westway.

114Jeff Koons at Almine Rech.

115At St Martins in the Fields, Trafalgar Square. Distorted window round the back by Shirazeh Houshiary of Lisson Gallery.

116Chantal Joffe at Victoria Miro has a good show of portraits of the people in her life. Great stripes right across.

117Josef Albers at Stephen Friedman in a revisit to Bauhaus.

118Setven Claydon show at Sadie Coles called The Gilded Bough. The partial gold gilding of the sculptures places them (intentionally) between artefact and commodity. Circuitry, mechanisation and totems all add to a good installation.

119Leake Street.