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.
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.
It’s opposite St Pancras station and is clearly a work of art, but by whom?
Bridget Smith at Frith Street Gallery brings us cinema as spectacle. Light becomes object and chairs become sea!
Jennifer Pastor presents Hand Made Knives 2015, with a fabulous cast-knife-block. We see traces of polystyrene holes and gaffer tape wrinkles.
Christies on Duke St St James has a fetching side door during refurbishment.
Heman Chong, represented by Wilkinson Gallery showing at South London Gallery. 1,000,000 blacked out business cards which you can walk on.
Adam Buick presents Rare Earth at Corvi Mora. He rubs grit and compounds he acquires from landscapes into his pots. Here the pot has become palpably warped due to the introduction of a mobile phone during the firing process!
Laura Owens’ style of symbols with drop shadows works well on this piece. The paper has perforations and a group of artists worked on this standard template shown at Rob Tufnell. Their remit was to emulate LSD packaging whilst adding artistic and additional ironic commentary of their own.
Alexandre De Cunha offers more bright-mundane and gives the objects spiritual worth in this excellent show at Thomas Dane entitled Freefall. Yes it is a parachute!
Stan Douglas at Victoria Miro tells the story of the 1974 revolution in Portugal in The Secret Agent. He uses 6 screens and for good measure features a cinema.
Simon Hantai at Timothy Taylor shows his 60’s innovative paintings which used a tie dye technique.
Great garden on a barge at Regent’s Canal.
Albert Oehlen at Gagosian Gallery on Grosvenor Hill using a retro laminate surface.
Garry Simons at Simon Lee Gallery made these speaker units as part of an installation that gets across the feel of punk and grunge!
Tom Wesselmann at David Zwirner is a show about his collages he made whilst still at college. Upstairs we see a fantastic end product.
Saw this bag trolley on Piccadilly after leaving the last gallery of the day.
Tara 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.
Darren Bader produced a sound piece that hums low pitched tunes through the Alexander Calder- filled Pace Gallery.
Haroon Mirza produces a sight piece that works well next to Darren Bader’s sound piece shown adjacent.
More gas guzzling in a work by Josephine Meckseper in a show at White Cube about consumerism.
A flat-life tableaux from Katherine Bernhardt in the same group show at White Cube.
New work by Tamara Henderson at Rodeo Gallery.
A show by Sergej Jensen at White Cube uses money bags sewn together. Sometimes bleached or naturally distressed but here they are identifiable.
A great Richard Avedon photograph of Samuel Beckett at Gagosian gallery.
Andy Warhol’s Double Elvis at Gagosian gallery.
Claire Hooper at Hollybush Gardens has made a watercolour, life-sized, copy of frescoes from a temple briefly unearthed in the 1800’s and which date back to BC 2094.
Came across some stacked up ducting in Bell Street.
Ceal Floyer at Lisson Gallery taking a line for a walk up the gallery staircase.
Jorinde Voigt at Lisson Gallery in a group show about drawing. Her trademark parallel lines have been rendered in a new material.
A R Penck at Michael Werner Gallery.
A R Penck at Michael Werener Gallery did some great early works.
At 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.
Synaesthesia 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.
Making my way back from the Approach. There were two cats boarding their ship at The Limehouse Basin.
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!
Great imagery on the Hertford Union Canal on the way to Brick Lane.
The Hertford Union Canal gives a good access route to Brick Lane.
At Beigel Bake on Brick Lane.
Approach to Lisson Gallery from the Regent’s Canal.
Susan Hiller at Lisson Gallery.
Gordon Matta-Clark in the Maisons Fragiles group show at Hauser and Wirth gallery.
Fabio 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.
John 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.
Luisa 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.
Leake street (pictured) will soon appear on a Gallery Runner map as the preferred access to the west end galleries, from the south. The image reminded me of the paintings of Jim Shaw that I would soon be jogging to.
Jim Shaw at the 
Jim Shaw at the 
I enjoyed Erika Verzutti’s show at the 
Paul Noble has produced this great drawing which looks to me like pools of light on a starlit sea. 
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