Past
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Matt Johnson
13 Oct - 13 Nov 2010 'The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural, infinite existence within the finite.' Pythagoras For his first solo exhibition... More -
Lygia Clark
Estudos e Maquete 8 Sep - 9 Oct 2010 'My fundamental problem is the exercise of freedom, taking into account what I already am and that which I have been transformed into by my work.' Lygia Clark One of... More
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Hannah Wilke
Elective Affinities 4 Jun - 14 Aug 2010 I become my art, my art becomes me. My art is becoming my heart in my art. My heart is hard to handle, my art is too. I want to... More -
Haluk Akakçe
Coming Home 30 Apr - 29 May 2010 'A sense of being between states underlies all Akakçe's work. No entity is fixed and no category impermeable. It's a world where one need not subscribe to inherited patterns of... More
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Tomory Dodge
26 Mar - 24 Apr 2010 Dodge's canvases recall the sublime through an abstract and seductive use of colour and movement. The compositional negotiation between beauty and destruction suggests the artist's preoccupation with catastrophe, rapture, transcendence... More -
Ana Mendieta
Silueta and Silence 19 Feb - 20 Mar 2010 It is this sense of magic, knowledge and power, found in primitive art, that influences my personal attitude to art-making…I have been working out in nature, exploring the relationship between... More
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Ryan Mosley
13 Jan - 13 Feb 2010 'Mosley's paintings are kind of surrealist-cum-cubist-cum-Gustonish acts of zany, venturesome play. Painted in a wild Picasso-like dash...the work is playful and confident, seldom over-earnest and always unconstrained.' The Independent... More -
André Butzer
27 Nov 2009 - 9 Jan 2010 'So colour is basically about history. To animate colour is historic in the way that the image will tell us about the future and the past.' André Butzer, 2009 Alison... More
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Robert Mapplethorpe
A Season in Hell 14 Oct - 21 Nov 2009 OPENING AND PERFORMANCE BY PATTI SMITH TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER, 6-8 PM Alison Jacques Gallery is delighted to present a new interpretation of the work of acclaimed and controversial American... More -
Ryan McGinley
Moonmilk 11 Sep - 8 Oct 2009 Acclaimed American artist Ryan McGinley's first UK solo show presents 22 new colour photographs shot in caves across North America. Over the past year, he and his crew explored huge... More
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Bernd Ribbeck
3 Jul - 1 Aug 2009 Alison Jacques Gallery announces our first solo exhibition of German artist Bernd Ribbeck. In this show, he will exhibit a new series of small-scale paintings on wood and paper in... More -
Liz Craft
Project Room: Baby Carriage 3 Jul - 1 Aug 2009 Piece Unique refers to one work by an artist being shown in a small cube like space on the second floor of the gallery. The concept relates to the space... More
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Ian Kiaer
Project Room 22 May - 27 Jun 2009 'Kiaer often draws from the history of landscape painting and from models of utopian and radical architecture, revealing ways in which they impact on the paradigms of aesthetic contemplation. Vision... More -
Saul Fletcher
22 May - 27 Jul 2009 'In his photographs Saul Fletcher visualizes human existence in all its temporal dimensions and physical fragility. The scenes he depicts achieve a concentrated intimacy: In order to take in every... More
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Mathew Weir
17 Apr - 16 May 2009 'At times, Weir's canvases are so intense - so heavy with history and eye-searing colour - that they produce a kind of psychological overload.' Tom Morton, from the catalogue essay... More -
Klara Kristalova
Where the Owls Spend their Days 27 Feb - 11 Apr 2009 'Kristalova steers clear of the rhetorical aspects of art, and instead deals with the small narratives, dreams and nightmares that everyday life is full of. She is drawn to an... More
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Ryan Mosley
Project Room 27 Feb - 11 Apr 2009 Mosley transposes the sixteenth-century classical Italian theatrical form of the commedia dell'arte into a painted realm inhabited by the ghosts of Goya, Guston, Ensor and the masked grotesques of Tiepolo.... More -
Jon Pylypchuk
9 Jan - 21 Feb 2009 'Evoking unconditional empathy, Pylypchuk's mischievous cohort of furry victims and bastards become endearing effigies of the dark side of social psychology. Transforming the unthinkable into sub-human form, Pylypchuk's characters are... More
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Graham Little
20 Nov - 19 Dec 2008 Alison Jacques Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new drawings and a large floor - based sculpture by the British artist Graham Little. Graham Little's work reveals an... More -
Thomas Zipp
White Dada 17 Oct - 15 Nov 2008 'The pope tells me what to do… Painting kind of touches you, and sucks you in, and opens you up to some new points. That's what drugs can do as... More