New Beginnings
New Beginnings showcasing over 40 signature pieces by some of the world's most celebrated international artists, alongside bold and exciting new works by the younger generation of contemporary practitioners, opens to the public at the Alan Cristea Gallery in Pall Mall on 12 January 2017.
Highlights of the exhibition include Coffee Pot Hit by a Monkey Wrench (2016), a new etching by Cornelia Parker, who continues to be fascinated by the physical properties of objects and materials, and their histories. Michael Craig-Martin has been creating editions, from etching and screen-printing to 3-D printing and light-box installations, with Alan Cristea for 20 years. New Beginnings will feature celebrated works from Craig-Martin's screenprint series Fundamentals (2016), including Umbrella, Bulb, Racket and Remote, with each continuing his investigation of everyday objects.
The exhibition will also include new works by some of Britain's most celebrated living artists including Gillian Ayres, Antony Gormley and Howard Hodgkin. A pair of large-scale screenprints of running figures by Julian Opie will be shown alongside six new diptych editions by Joe Tilson, The Stones of Venice - Conjunctions, which depict Venetian church facades paired with elements of their architectural features.
New prints by Paul Winstanley illustrating empty art school studios will be displayed alongside Clare Woods, The Shouters, her first print project with the gallery. We will also unveil a new series of woodcuts by Richard Woods. Drill it Yourself are densely inked compositions which appear to be segments abstracted from domestic interiors. These scatterings of offcuts continue Woods twist on the cult of DIY.
We will exhibit Cowboys a new linocut by Marie Harnett, who is known for her small meticulous drawings culled from film stills. This new edition is an illustration from the 2015 film, Slow West. Gordon Cheung has made a new set of hand-painted prints in which the rodeo cowboy echoes the myth of the Minotaur, depicted against his signature use of the financial stock listings.
We will reveal a new work on paper by Emma Stibbon, ahead of her first solo exhibition with the gallery in September 2017. Kilauea Night, 2016, was made in response to Stibbon's 2016 residency with the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.
Featured artists:
Gillian Ayres | Christiane Baumgartner | Gordon Cheung | Michael Craig-Martin | Ian Davenport | Jim Dine | Antony Gormley | Marie Harnett | Howard Hodgkin | Langlands & Bell | David Nash | Julian Opie | Cornelia Parker | Richard Serra | Emma Stibbon | Joe Tilson | Paul Winstanley | Clare Woods | Richard Woods