Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Claire Dorsett - PV Friday 6-8 pm, Gateshead

Claire Dorsett Cool Dude (Whatever), 2018, Acrylic on canvas,190 x 160 cm, 74 3/4 x 63 in

Claire Dorsett

22 June - 27 July 2019
Workplace Foundation
Gateshead, UK

Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 5pm
Preview: Friday 21 June, 6 - 8pm

“Small things become big and big things small - both in terms of size and feeling”
Notes, objects and snippets from day-to-day life are reduced by Claire Dorsett to line, colour and shape. Extreme close-up and extra-extra-large, the isolated images of Dorsett’s paintings assume a Janus - faced position, oscillating between joyous, childlike simplicity and menacing, totemic power… [read more...]

An exhibition catalogue with an essay by the influential Scottish sculptor, performance artist, filmmaker and painter Bruce McLean will be available during the exhibition [read more...]
 
 
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