“The white-haired women I now paint often wield the anachronistic device of a palette. Bearing it up as a shield, a totem, a joke about male painters and genius. About painting despite the odds.”
PET - new paintings by Zoe Spowage
Blackbird Rook presents
'Value Value Value’ brings together 9 artists whose work shows a willingness to collapse and renew recognisable authorship - artists who work so continuously on an artwork that often nothing recognisable of the artist’s hand remains - artists who lose themselves so completely in the activity that they become more synonymous with the chosen tool in the labour of making, than the final artwork itself.
SUSAN METRICAN
I am drawn to images and objects that resonate across seemingly disparate cultures and time periods. As a Thai American raised mostly in the midwest, I am interested in imagery that is “culturally familiar” through its connection to folktales and shared traditions, particularly imagery that evokes a reverence for rural life. Susan Metrican
NICK DEVEREUX
CHRISTINA BARRERA
Foundations
Blackbird Rook is presenting three artists with Foundations, an online fair curated by Artsy, spotlighting fresh works from galleries that discover and nurture rising artists. This year’s fair includes presentations from galleries in 36 countries, featuring exceptional talents whose practices deserve greater recognition.
Christina Barrera, Nick Devereux and Susan Metrican
Blackbird Rook presents...
Curated by Juan Bolivar, Visage presents artists who share a fascination with faces - not necessarily portraits or a likeness, but a fascination with the face as an indexical repository of style. Exhibiting artists: Christina Barrera, Juan Bolivar, Nicky Carvel, Mark Connolly, Cyan Dee, Oli Epp, Liam Fallon, Luis Rafael Galvez, Charlie Gray, John Greenwood, Des Lawrence, Rebecca Parkin, Anthony Piper, Miho Sato, Toby Ursell, Julie Verhoeven, Richard Wathen, Tom Worsfold.
