Gallery run 19th February

60’s classics at the Gagosian and David Zwirner and a jog along the Regent’s Canal. A show of prize-winning Alexander Calder-inspired artists at Pace and some loudspeakers.
91Simon Hantai at Timothy Taylor shows his 60’s innovative paintings which used a tie dye technique.

92Great garden on a barge at Regent’s Canal.

93Albert Oehlen at Gagosian Gallery on Grosvenor Hill using a retro laminate surface.

94Garry Simons at Simon Lee Gallery made these speaker units as part of an installation that gets across the feel of punk and grunge!

95Tom Wesselmann at David Zwirner is a show about his collages he made whilst still at college. Upstairs we see a fantastic end product.

96Saw this bag trolley on Piccadilly after leaving the last gallery of the day.

97Tara Donovan makes clusters and here her medium is the old slinky spring. This exhibit at Pace Gallery is in a show based around one of their great artists Alexander Calder. He is patron of a sculpture prize received by the exhibitors.

98Darren Bader produced a sound piece that hums low pitched tunes through the Alexander Calder- filled Pace Gallery.

99Haroon Mirza produces a sight piece that works well next to Darren Bader’s sound piece shown adjacent.

Gallery Run 31st January

51At The Approach. The penny has dropped! Helen Appel’s #canvasdeposits are actually painted! In this show curated by Jack Lavender her work strongly portrays the theme of detritus in domestic settings.

52Synaesthesia is the subject for Daria Martin at Maureen Paley Gallery. However she is interested in a stronger type called Mirror-touch Synaesthesia. People can actually feel a touch when they see it experienced by another.

53Making my way back from the Approach. There were two cats boarding their ship at The Limehouse Basin.

Gallery Run 8th January

31Great imagery on the Hertford Union Canal on the way to Brick Lane.

32The Hertford Union Canal gives a good access route to Brick Lane.

33At Beigel Bake on Brick Lane.

34Approach to Lisson Gallery from the Regent’s Canal.

35Susan Hiller at Lisson Gallery.

36Gordon Matta-Clark in the Maisons Fragiles group show at Hauser and Wirth gallery.

37Fabio Mauri’s installation at Hauser and Wirth. You don’t want to walk into the space at first. These are wax models but you don’t know if there are living people amongst them.

38John Hoyland’s painting at Pace London looks hot! A forged steel support in the gallery is in the foreground. During a previous show by Yto Barrada where ornate carpets were laid on the floor, the same columns looked like the supports of a mosque.

39Luisa Lambri at Thomas Dane gallery. She photographed Lygia Clark’s hinged metal-plate artwork. It was interactive in it’s day and gallery visitors could shape it.

Gallery Run 13th December

1a1Hello folks welcome to my very first blog as the Gallery Runner. I begin at Regent’s Canal coming out of Limehouse Basin. This is the access route to the first gallery of the day, The Approach.

1a2I was lucky to catch the last day of Sara VanDerBeek’s show before The Approach closes for Christmas.

1a3With this camera angle I find a light installation outside numbers 2 and 4 Herald Street where my next two galleries are.

1a4At Herald Street, the strip lights seemed to strobe when I took photos giving green bands. I liked the effect on Diane Simpson’s elegant assembly with its delicate lines and holes.

1a5With the title of Maze Runner, Phillip Zach’s piece (at Laura Bartlett Gallery) must feature in my inaugural blog!

1a6Cambridge Heath Road opposite AP Fitzpatrick, an art materials shop, reminds me of the pleasure of paint.