Lambeth Bridge, St Jame’s Park, Green Park, Hyde Park and on to Portobello Road. Into Coffee Plant cafe-gallery to drop off show press release. North to Regent’s Canal, East and then South to Timothy Taylor. Sadie Coles, Alan Cristea, Simon Lee, Pilar Corrias, and South over Lambeth Bridge to Newport Street Gallery. Then South to see Turner Prize nominee Michael Dean at South London Gallery.
Inspired by gallery travels.
Michael Dean at South London Gallery with flat standing sculptures. Loved this pebble dash one.
Antony Gormley at Alan Cristea Gallery has produced intricate block-print surfaces to create a richly textured black surface on the paper. The reflection is the only way I could get it across.
Elizabeth Neal at Pilar Corrias with gestures and sprayed spots of paint. Landscape motifs are just discernible.
Alighieroboetti artwork featured at Ibid Gallery with labour-intensive lines featured close-up.
Sarah Crowner at Simon Lee Gallery with more great canvas dislocation pieces and some tiling. A new pentagon pattern discovered by mathematicians this year is featured.
Jeff Koons’ artwork at Newport Street Gallery.
Had a peek before entering the show at South London Gallery. Congratulations to Michael Dean of Herald Street for his nomination for the Turner Prize.
Ryan Sullivan at Sadie Coles HQ with a new moulding process. The viewer literally looks from inside the painting out.
Richard Prince at Sadie Coles HQ. Reworked nudes with scribbles and big-footed figures.
Maria Bartuszova at Alison Jacques with delicate plaster eggshell-like sculptures.
Jenny Saville at Gagosian Gallery.
Antony Gormley of White Cube has this statue on St Bride Street.
Jean Luc Moulene at Thomas Dane.
Apostolos Giorgiou at Rodeo Gallery.
Anne Tallentire with propped building materials and her characteristic flashes of yellow and other DIY colours at Hollybush Gardens.
Ping pong balls.
Keijiuematsu at Simon Lee
Ever wondered what colour a Martian sunrise is? Spencer Finch at Lisson Gallery has produced this simulacrum of it. Rosy pink!
Allen Jones at Michael Werner exploring the dominatrix motif.
Blair Thurman at Almine Rech Gallery
Sarah Lucas at Sadie Coles HQ with more stuffed tights and fab metaphors.
John Korner at Victoria Miro with falling apples, copious honey and vivid skies as motifs.
John Latham Spray Paintings at Lisson Gallery.
Gabriel 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.
R. Crumb at David Zwirner with more heroic figures.
A 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.
Saw this animated figure in Carnaby Street. A quick google confirms it is indeed by Julian Opie of Lisson Gallery.
Early on the run looking for a place to cross the Westway.
Jeff Koons at Almine Rech.
At St Martins in the Fields, Trafalgar Square. Distorted window round the back by Shirazeh Houshiary of Lisson Gallery.
Chantal Joffe at Victoria Miro has a good show of portraits of the people in her life. Great stripes right across.
Josef Albers at Stephen Friedman in a revisit to Bauhaus.
Setven 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.
Leake Street.
I followed the flow-lines through the 28 central galleries . This zig-zag section looks small compared to my complete jog of 47 Frieze participating galleries!
Elizabeth Peyton at Sadie Coles has a lovely touch in the drawings.
Bruce Nauman at Marian Goodman is fab!
Magdalena Kita at Bruce Haines Gallery. She has produced imagery on a variety of exotic skins including wild boar. Bruce Haines was happy to share a chat about the art.
Wayne Gonzales at Stephen Friedman. This cross hatching is a new technique in contrast to his silhouette type paintings of crowds.
Claire Barclay at Stephen Friedman. She juxtaposes her curve motifs in leather with strands and some delicate comb-like objects.
Paintings by Jean Baptiste Bernadet and sculptures by Benoit Plateus at Almine Rech. Simplicity is a theme.
Gallery Runner enjoyed a sit down and was invited to play a game at Herald Street at Golden Square. That’s my foot sticking out. Oliver Payne has converted a conference chair into something more fun.
Sunny today!
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