Gallery run 16th February

River Lea to Hackney.

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Do Ho Suh of Victoria Miro with a fabric copy of interior spaces.

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Tschabalala Self at Parasol Unit with distinctive figures.

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Nathaniel Rackowe at Parasol Unit with an illuminated and brightly coloured shed interior contrasted to a classic black exterior.

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Sebastian Neeb at Beers London with gilded ceramics in a group show.

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Invader in Hackney

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Sebastian Stohrer of Carl Freedman Gallery showing ceramic sculptures based on surreal forest-like vegetation.

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Elizabeth Magill of Wilkinson Gallery in a show featuring landscapes.

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Simon Dybbroe Moller of Laura Bartlett Gallery with an unlikely but recognisable alteration to the colour of lettuce leaves.

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Anj Smith at Wilkinson Gallery in a group show with some of the gallery artists.

Gallery run 16th December

Battersea Park, Hyde Park.

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Haris Epaminonda at Rodeo Gallery using inset light coloured wood.

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Maria Nepomuceno at Victoria Miro with sculptures using woven beads and fired clay.

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David Ogle showing at The Royal British Society Of Sculptors.

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Caragh Thuring at Thomas Dane Gallery with delicate paintings on unprimed canvas here.

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Dayanita Singh at Frith Street Gallery with photos and wooden constructions evocative of 20th century institutions and museums.

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Ken Price at Hauser And Wirth with beautiful ceramics and drawings in this retrospective.

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Robert Mapplethorpe at Alison Jacques Gallery mostly figurative but here is a TV with chains.

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Gerasimos Floratos at Pilar Corrias with figures that have both a primitive and cartoon quality.

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Stephan Balkenhol of Stephen Friedman Gallery in a group show at Marian Goodman Gallery.

Gallery run 25th November

Regent’s Canal to Hackney and Old St.

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Patricia Treib at Kate MacGarry with delicate paintings using repeated motifs.

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Matthew Darbyshire at Herald Street with images of his partner and muse made from extruded clay tubing bent to the contours of the figure.

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Anselm Kiefer at White Cube with vitrines and sculptures using lead sheet and the iconic sunflower.

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Goshka Macuga at Kate MacGarry. The pipes symbolise exchanges of ideas.

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Thierry Noir

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Alex Hartley at Victoria Miro.

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Bojan Sarcevic at Stuart Shave Modern Art.

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Fergal Stapleton at Carl Freedman Gallery with lit objects against dark backgrounds.

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Joachim Schmid at Hollybush Gardens showing a series of Brazilian football pitches with irregular dimensions due to encroaching roads and houses. Aerial photograph.

Gallery run 22nd October

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Njideka Akunyili Crosby at Victoria Miro with immaculate complex images, including print transfer, on a thin support.

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Giuseppe Gabellone of Greengrassi showing at Bloomberg Space. Casually laid out pastel coloured fabric transforms the space.

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Alex Hartley at Victoria Miro with a transformed space (comprising ruined building) in the canal running down the back of the gallery.

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Sanya Kantarovsky at Stuart Shave ModernArt with Russian figures and glimpses into their lives.

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Richard Serra at Gagosian with a giant walk through steel labyrinth.

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Yayoi Kusama at Victoria Miro with metal doors appearing to have extruded some metallic sausage like substance. Group show Protest.

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Doug Aitkin at Victoria Miro with immaculately mounted shattered mirrors on the letters FREE.

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Ruth Freeman at Beers London with painted images inspired by computer tablet hand gestures.

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Robert Therrien at Parasol Unit with 70’s to 90’s retrospective.

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 28th April

Frames, cages and a look at the Tate’s new display.

179Ai Weiwei of Lisson Gallery produced this sculpture at St. Mary Axe.

178Jules de Balincourt at Victoria Miro with great glowing images.

177John Knight at Cabinet Gallery re-exhibits an instruction artwork. Also showing is a gallery cage of which we see a reflection.

176Nam June Paik used electrical coils to distort (further?) Nixon’s televised resignation address. Now at Tate Modern.

175Billy Childish at Carl Freedman with more vivid trees. The images have a great power close up and a close crop here tries to emulate that.

174Marlene Dumas at Tate Modern.

173Trellick Tower at the beginning of the Grand Union Canal approach to the first gallery.

172Ed Ruscha at Tate Modern.

171Great mural on Cowper Street near Whitechapel.

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.