Gallery run 20th January

Plinth shortlist and along Thames.

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Andrea Zittel at Sadie Coles HQ in a group show exploring rooms as psychic spaces. This is part flotation tank and part survival space.

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Michael Andrews at Gagosian Gallery with 5 series of paintings including one of Uluru or AyersRock.

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Charles Avery at Pilar Corrias with more drawings from his imaginary island.

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Bright sun today casting a mysterious green glow thanks to a nearby building.

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Huma Bahbah of Stephen Friedman Gallery showing as a short-listed artist for the 4th plinth. The artist is inspired by science fiction and ancient cities.

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Heidi Bucher who shows at the Approach Gallery featured here in a group show at Sadie Coles HQ featuring rooms as psychic spaces. This is a latex imprint of her father’s study.

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Adrian Paci at Frith Street Gallery with a series of drawings on found black board materials.

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Sarah Lucas at Sadie Coles HQ with a smoking room fashioned from tabloids headlines many of which I remember from the 90’s.

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Photograph of the The Shard placed by Tom Wolseley in the entrance hall of his exhibition. Two hall mirrors make for an interesting viewpoint. Vertical Horizons is the title of his work.

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.