Barnard Gallery present a group exhibition “SURFACE: Emerging Painters” and AVA Gallery “GREATEST HITS 2014: THE DOMESTIC ODYSSEY” – work selected from graduate shows.
Here’s an exciting opportunity to engage with new voices in the art world.
Barnard Gallery
From the evocative surfaces of Alexia Vogel’s paintings to the intense and highly expressive impasto works of Mia Chaplin, Surface: Emerging Painters features the work of a select group of up-and-coming painters redefining the medium in contemporary South African art. The exhibition considers and celebrates paint both as medium and subject, substance and means; showcasing a diversity of attitudes and approaches to the long-established and recently resurgent practice of painting. Surface:
Emerging Painters includes works by amongst others Alexia Vogel, Jaco van Schalkwyk, Katherine Spindler, Mia Chaplin (featured work above), Ryan Hewett and Sarah Biggs.
WHERE: Barnard Gallery, 55 Main Street Newlands, Cape Town 7700
WHEN: Opens 4 February 2015 at 18H00 – 19 March 2015
AVA Gallery
GREATEST HITS 2014: THE DOMESTIC ODYSSEY: Because there is no place like being all at Sea, is a curated exhibition with artworks selected from the Michaelis School of Fine Art UCT, Ruth Prowse School of Art and the Stellenbosch University’s graduate exhibitions. Greatest Hits 2014 offers an overview of the work produced at these schools.
The exhibition will be curated by Matthew Blackman. Participating artists include:
Amber Moir, Amy Engelbrecht, Bonolo Kavula, Chloe Durr, Chloe Obermeyer, Daniel Joubert, Emily Robertson, Esti Kruger, Greg Stock, Hanna Orlowski, Jacquie Baker, Jana Terblanche, Kirsten Mackrill, Kyle Springate, Leandri Erlank, Leila Walter, Liesl Brenzel, Lungiswa Gqunta, Mia Louw, Rachelle Hugo, Rory Emmett, Sarah Hugo-Hamman, Saskia Druyan, Shona van der Merwe, Sitaara Stodel, Sohette Wait
WHERE: AVA Gallery 35 Church Street, Cape Town 8001
WHEN: 29 Jan – 20 Feb 2015 INFO: AVA Gallery : info@ava.co.za 021 424 7436
