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The Modern Nude - June 25th 2014

 A few quick snaps  from last nights private view at The Modern Nude Brick Lane Gallery.

Hopefully better photos to come!!!

THE MODERN NUDE AT THE BRICK LANE GALLERY!!

26^th June – 6^th July 2014

Preview: Wednesday 25^th June 6pm- 8.30pm

The Brick Lane Gallery – 196 Brick Lane | London | E1 6SA | UK

ADAM HORNSBY | D W WHITFIELD | KONSTANTINOS VASILEIOU | KRIS HARDY | KRISTIAN LIEBRAND | SUSAN HARRISON | TOMAS PICHA | YECATSWOLLIW | YURI SHALIMOV

The human figure has long been the foremost subject in art; today the re-emergence of the nude body can be seen across a range of different mediums, from Lucian Freud’s lauded paintings to digitally rendered art. This exhibition showcases a selection of artists from the UK and abroad including France, Germany, Russia and Slovakia, exploring and examining the subject of the ‘Nude’ from varying perspectives in mixed media from paint to photography. Spanning from the soft and evocative painterly figures by D W Whitfield through to the colourful sketchy characters of Susan Harrison, in stark contrast to the realism of Konstantinos Vasileiou’s bare bodies and the colourfully comic yet socially aware portrayals of Tomas Picha, we are proud to exhibit works in a range of styles and textures truly encompassing the breadth of human experience and with both nostalgic and startlingly new interpretations expose on the everlasting subject of the human form.

Sculptural trio.

Glazed clay, raw clay, plaster.

Glazed Clay

Old Gold glaze

Clay

Photographic references

My current body of work is focused around the female form, in particular my own body, although I am not using photographs as a resolve, I am using them as a reference to form in both drawing and sculpture. 

The images are intentionally crude, I was not trying to create images that flattered the body as are portrayed in the media and expected. I wanted to create more natural images, the kinds of images you see when you catch yourself in the mirror. The aim was to emphasise the forms and folds in the flesh, making for more interesting translations into two and three dimensional works.