Gallery run 11th March

James Coleman, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Lari Pittman offer their established styles in new works. Joanne Greenbaum and Polly Apfelbaum bring colour whilst Imran Qureshi, Jeff Zilm and Maria Taniguchi show great delicacy.121Lari Pittman at Thomas Dane Gallery with layered paintings.

122In Wardour Street, Chinatown, where the lanterns are up.

123Jeff Zilm at Simon Lee Gallery produced these filmic spray-painted images. He does a chemical reaction on 35mm film stock and transposes the results onto canvas.

124Polly Apfelbaum at Frith Street Gallery.

125James Coleman with a mini retrospective at Marian Goodman. This new piece is on a giant, bright, led screen that actually seems to radiate warmth.

126Maria Taniguchi at Ibid with a series of brick paintings.

127Rirkrit Tiravanija at Pilar Corrias was in discussion with Andrea Zittel shown above. She saw the rock as a symbolic place for a future commune shelter project.

128Imran Qureshi at Corvi Mora with Mughal inspired miniature watercolour paintings.

129Joanne Greenbaum at Greengrassi. Great drips, spaces and interconnections.

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.