THE PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE, Oceans Apart, 24-26 King St, Salford, M3 7DG
PV: Fri 14th Nov, 6-9pm. Exhibition continues until 6th Dec, by appt. Curated by Keith Ashcroft
THE PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE, Oceans Apart, 24-26 King St, Salford, M3 7DG
PV: Fri 14th Nov, 6-9pm. Exhibition continues until 6th Dec, by appt.
The Problem with People is an exhibition of 18 painters, focusing on different ways that artists deal with the figure in painting today. The somewhat provocative title refers to the difficulties and challenges often associated with the figure in painting, both in a literal or representational sense, but also in philosophical, ethical and material terms.
The idea of (the) painting – which is not a ‘person’ – performs as a kind of surrogate or stand in for the body. This enables artists to see and re-see themselves through painting, be it through locating the figure inside pictorial space, emphasising the figure beyond the stretcher, notions of the figure with or without a body, the figure as gesture, a shape, a place, an outline, an anthropomorphic object, or through material itself.
Exhibiting artists: Reece Adair, Keith Ashcroft, David Ballantyne, Andrew Bracey, Kate Dunn, Simon Foxall, David Gledhill, Gareth Griffith, Mary Lou Lawless-Gill, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Dougal McKenzie, Paula Newton, Alex Roberts, Wayne Robinson, Luke Skiffington, Geraldine Swayne, Michael Stubbs, Mikey Thomas