Feb 13, 2017
Another couple of Goodbye to Love’s from 2016
seen from Hong Kong SAR China
seen from India
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seen from Poland
seen from United States
seen from Poland
seen from Russia
seen from United States
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seen from United States
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seen from China
seen from Russia
seen from United States
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seen from China
Another couple of Goodbye to Love’s from 2016
Better late than never! Here are some photos of Running with the Wolves, the show I curated earlier this year. The exhibition took place at 35Blumen, a small project space in Krefeld, Germany. Participating artists were: Annie Aube (US), Chris Shaw Hughes (UK), Eva Lis (UK), Julia Maddison (UK), Max Reeves (UK), Martin Sexton (UK), Stephen Spera (US), Rhys Trussler (UK), Stoll & Wachall (DE), Mark Scott Wood (UK), and of course my good old self.
When it comes to describing the work of artist Sig Waller, I think the writer Seb Doubinsky sums it up best: If you don’t know Sig Waller’s art, you don’t know shit. It’s amazing. Writers are good like that. Good with words. Over the past twenty years, Sig Waller has produced a staggering array of exceedingly beautiful, powerful, subversive, often disturbing yet darkly comic paintings, drawings and prints. Her work explores the darker borders of our culture of excess—with particular attention to our potential for destruction. Her most recent work Goodbye to Love was a hit exhibition at 35blumen, Krefeld, Germany in 2016. Taking its title from that well-known bittersweet song by the Carpenters, Goodbye to Love focused on the reality between being a woman and a mother when compared to the idealized fantasy as promoted in the pages of women’s magazines, TV and billboard advertising and old 1950s housewives’ guides. Sig’s “housewives” are drooling Pavlovian figures, expected to perform absurd tasks and domestic rituals. The work is a stylistic follow-on from her 2013 show Happy Homes. But the black humor very apparent in Happy Homes has now been replaced in Goodbye to Love...
Goodbye to Love - new work!
here are some of the new GTLs I made over the summer months - more to come soon! :))) you can view the entire series, plus pricing and purchase details on my website here
Goodbye to Love
Here’s the flyer for my solo show opening in Krefeld this evening. Do come along if you are in the area. I will be scanning the new work and adding it to my website & blog when the show is over, so keep a look out for that in October! :)))))
New SMILEYS!
Made for the SCHWARZ show @ 35blumen in Krefeld, Germany - catch it if you can! :))))))
So here is the first of my black-on-black demons which I made for the SCHWARZ show at 35blumen in Krefeld. I’ve included several shots as it’s hard to photograph.
When the artist Sig Waller was a child, she experienced intense fever hallucinations. It possibly explains something about her paintings, which are beautiful, brightly colored, fluid, dreamlike, visions of reality. I find her work addictive, and am drawn back, time and again to certain paintings - paintings which seem as if she has made real some fragment of my dreams. Waller’s first major exhibition was in 1996, and since then she has exhibited her paintings across the world. Her work is fabulous, intense, politicized yet often darkly amusing. There is a great intelligence at work here, which can be seen in such varied series as: Dreamlands (1999-2001)…