After the Royal Academy we found very few local galleries open on a Sunday afternoon, but Saatchi Yates was, and we say this Marina Abramović exhibition, somewhat hurriedly.
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On the advice of a recent acquaintance we visited the Kellie Miller Arts Gallery in Church Street and saw these lovely ceramics by Elizabeth Price, among many other interesting pieces.
Bread & Salt
Whilst in Barrio Logan we visited Bread & Salt, “a 45,000 square-foot gallery and experimental center for the arts with strong community ties,” and I naturally found a variety of aspects of the space to photograph.
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Shaping Glass
As part of October Craft Month (Farnham is a World Craft Town) UCA hosted the Shaping Glass exhibition in the James Hockey Gallery in October, which I was lucky enough to see a little before it opened. Below are some quick snaps I took in the gallery.
Lawn Road Flats / ISOKON
On our way back from Hampstead Heath to the Belsize Park tube station we visited the Lawn Road Flats, home, at various times, to such luminaries as Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, László Moholy-Nagy, Agatha Christie and various NKVD spies and recruiters. It’s famous ISOBar played host, additionally, to Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Julian Huxley among many others.
Nick Waplington Shadows and Skylight
Another gallery tour in London a few weeks ago, including Nick Waplington’s Living Room at Hamiltons Gallery in Mayfair.
Unreal
From the Barbara Kruger at the Serpentine we walked to the newer Serpentine Gallery North to see Refik Anadol’s Echoes of the Earth, an immersive AI animation based on visual data of coral reefs and rainforests. See more below:
One room featured beanbag chairs in which you could lie and gaze at psychedelic projections on the ceiling. Looks a bit like a Victorian opium den (click any image to see them all larger).
Barbara Kruger
Our next stop was the Serpentine Gallery for the Barbara Kruger show, Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You, which I had previously seen at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 (and here, and here). While this exhibit was necessarily much smaller than in Chicago it had also been greatly updated and made more use of video and LEDs (see a few shots below, click them to enlarge).
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The Goodman Gallery provided an opportunity to continue my collection of big, open, white gallery spaces. See more below (click pictures to enlarge).
Goodman
Our next stop was the Goodman Gallery to see Zineb Sedira’s Let’s go on singing! It captured a sense of the Franco-Algerian music/cultural scene. This included Algerian disk versions of musicians I was listening to when I lived in the mid-East in the early 1970s. See some more images below.
Gallery Self-Portrait
Once again, I found the mirrored surface at the Gagosian gallery to capture a selfie.
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Our school trip to London galleries followed the Photographer’s Gallery with a visit to Gagosian to see the exhibition of Douglas Gordon: All I need is a little bit of everything. See additional images below (and click on them to enlarge).
Mayfair
After the Moriyama show at The Photographers’ Gallery, we went on to the Flowers Gallery where I was hoping to see Edward Burtynsky’s new work but I’d misread the web site and that show wouldn’t be opening for weeks. We went on from there, through Mayfair, to the Richard Saltoun Gallery for an excellent event dedicated to the launch of 2 new Hannah Arendt books. A perfect end to the day!
Photographers’ Gallery
Our next stop was the massive Daido Moriyama show at The Photographers’ Gallery.
Camden Art Centre
Several weeks ago, we did a crawl of London galleries, starting at the Camden Art Centre and the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, a student show that contained surprisingly mature work. Once again, I was struck by gallery spaces and the installation below (‘Twinkling finale’: 4.3.2‽_-⨅⨼, 2022 by Zayd Menk). Click either image below to see them larger.
Gallery Portrait
We went to Woking about 3 or 4 weeks ago to take a look at the MFA show I have a couple of images in and, invariably, I found a corridor with a mirror at the end of it to take a self-portrait in.
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Finally get to see myself in the window of a London Gallery – alas, it’s only my reflection (nor was it really a gallery – it looked more like a hotel lobby to me).
Sugimoto Space
And, as always when I’m visiting a museum or gallery, I’m as interested in the space and the geometry as in the art exhibited (and finding some place for my reflection). Click any of the images below to see them full-size.
