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Post by lowpro on Feb 23, 2011 19:05:38 GMT -8
Our next exhibit is with UK based painter Ian Francis. This will be Francis' solo debut with Joshua Liner Gallery as well as his first solo exhibition in New York. 'Fireland' will consist of over a dozen new mixed media works on canvas as well as a selection of new works on paper. Please contact the gallery for additional information or to be placed on the preview list for this exhibit.  This is an image from Basel, which I believe might be in the show. But the new work is looking ridiculous. |
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Post by solar77 on Feb 23, 2011 21:05:02 GMT -8
Can't wait for this show!
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Post by dellboyy on Feb 24, 2011 5:16:00 GMT -8
Nice... looking forward to this one too!
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Post by sleepboy on Feb 24, 2011 12:10:19 GMT -8
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Post by lowpro on Feb 24, 2011 13:29:44 GMT -8
Really in love with that deer piece. Some other real winners from the lot I've seen. Should be a show of epic proportions, indeed.
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Post by afroken on Feb 24, 2011 15:53:16 GMT -8
I'm not generally a fan of his work but that deer piece is quite something.
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Post by badcatgary on Feb 24, 2011 18:15:11 GMT -8
I think I'm going to try to get up to NY for this show!
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Post by joshualinergallery on Feb 25, 2011 8:39:26 GMT -8
Thanks for starting this one off W Attached is the press release and link to the pdf catalog. Note there will be four line drawings which will be added to the website next week. This is Ian's most complex and detailed body of work to date, enjoy! joshualinergallery.com//catalogs/JoshuaLinerGallery_Ian%20Francis_Fireland_March2011.pdfJoshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Fireland, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the British artist Ian Francis. This is Francis’ first one-man show at the gallery and marks his solo debut in New York. Working in mixed media on canvas, Ian Francis combines abstraction, figuration, and elements of both painting and drawing to create distinctly contemporary works. His robust approach uses a range of techniques including acrylic, oil, charcoal, ink and graphite, all deployed in a spontaneous, seemingly off-the-cuff manner. Below this active “surface,” however, are subtle notes of melancholy, alienation and social critique, revealing a nuanced regard for contemporary mores. Francis draws inspiration and raw material from cinema, pornography, street culture, and images sampled from the Internet, synthesizing these sources into a quasi-literal vision of the “mediated” landscape. Among the exhibition’s twelve mixed-media paintings and selection of works on paper, a number depict urban street life and the complex interactions that occur when random souls collide. Amid high-color washes and jagged brushwork, youthful figures have a reckoning on park steps in A Boy Returns Home Not Realizing How Much He’s Changed. The cityscape is fragmented and unsettling in Walking Down a Street a Person is Crushed by Light, a poignant work that intimates the hardships faced by the elderly and other vulnerable beings among urban dwellers. Elsewhere, a Japanese soft-porn princess makes an appearance in Anri Sugihara Three Seconds, a closeup portrait created from multiple perspectives over time. It’s a play on Sugihara’s own coquettish updating of the “fan dance” in her erotic YouTube videos. In other works, Francis depicts semi-clad female figures who loll and mix in casual groupings - some scenes are intimate, others hedonistic. These figures are recognizable as the young and beautiful denizens of media fantasies fueled by sex, death, and celebrity. In these and other works, abstraction and figuration mutually support the artist’s suggestion of a worldview where the incongruities of modern urban life — violence and style, wealth and poverty, beauty and the grotesque — cannot help but intersect. |
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Post by ricosg11 on Feb 25, 2011 10:47:15 GMT -8
this batch of work is soooooo good. Cant wait to see it in person.
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Post by zippy on Feb 26, 2011 3:56:39 GMT -8
some lovely pieces and his work really continues to impress.
anyone know what his canvas's sell for?
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Post by jediak on Feb 26, 2011 7:47:55 GMT -8
Depends on size, I've seen as low as 8 and as high as 17, 18K.
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Post by highbrow on Feb 26, 2011 9:14:08 GMT -8
Never was a fan of his work, well never saw enough to become a fan, but this body of work is really great. I am sadden my wife has opted for a vacation so I had to pass on anything, guess I shouldnt have blown my art yearly budget in the first month.
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Post by jediak on Mar 2, 2011 7:50:55 GMT -8
Anyone from here going to the opening tomorrow? Plan on hitting this up as well as the Parla opening.
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Post by Weekender on Mar 2, 2011 11:10:30 GMT -8
Great works on the preview! Show must be great!
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 4, 2011 12:20:42 GMT -8
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