CONTEMPORARY PAINTING | 18th-28th July 2013

The Brick Lane Gallery is proud to present our third CONTEMPORARY PAINTING group exhibition this July. Featuring a range of unique styles which represent some the most interesting original artworks from new and emerging artists based in the UK and overseas.

Based in Lebanon, Roger de Tanios will present a series of paintings around his invented character the 'Aychak Man'. Through this character, Roger's paintings comment on the 'macho man' of middle eastern countries, observed over the years that the artist has spent living in over 25 different countries.

Local artist Daniel Stepanek will blow you away with his series of fantasical and emotive 'portraits'. His self-taught style draws a line between fine art and urban art, with beautifully and technically formed figures which then both explode and melt from the medium to form abstract textures and expressions in a range of dramatic colours and light.

Similarly expressive in their technique, artists Karen Nelson and Zeiner Nader Selwan use bright colours and bold brushstrokes to create dynamic abstract paintings. Karen Nelson experiments with her oil paints, taking their fluidity and smoothness, and turning it into something coarse and rough on the canvas. Karen encourages the viewers to form their own impressions and theories on her abstract narratives. Zeina Nader Selwan uses her senses to imagine forms and colours from sound, touch, smell and taste – inspired by the beauty and wonders of life and nature.

Continuing the abstract technique, but to create very contrasting images, artist Satdeep Grewal uses simple lines, shapes and colour to create almost geometrically formed paintings. Influenced by scientific and mathematical theory, Satdeep's abstracts are form more logical patterns in contrast to the expressive and emotive style seen in Karen's oils.

From a different direction, Polish artist Mery Kriger Kanowick will present other worldly images in beautiful illustrative detail.  Her style lies somewhere between surrealism and contemporary graphic design, with quirky subject matter formed with great detail. Another Polish artist, Michalina Antczak uses oil paint, dry pastels and pen to create a pensive and melancholic interpretation of the man in her distinctive style influenced by her profession as a graphic and interior designer.

North East England artist, Pierre Dingley paints the landscape and seascape of the North East within a contemporary style. His paintings follow a 'de-constructed' method of abstraction within a literal representation of the landscape. While in parts, the works are purely abstract, as a whole, the imagery of the landscape can be formed.

Steve McCracken is another local artist who joins our Contemporary Painting exhibition this summer. Influenced by Jean-Michel Basquiat and the New York 80s movement, Steve uses vibrant colours mixed with thoughtful yet immediate text, scratchy drawings, and a bold use of black and white paint, to bring together his angst ideas in a series of painted collages.

We are excited to bring together this range of artists in our third CONTEMPORARY PAINTING exhibition for 2013. You are warmly invited to attend the opening night of the exhibition on Wednesday 17th July 6pm - 8.30pm.

To find out more and take part in a future Art in Mind Exhibition, please contact Tessa Yee or Marie Wong - info@thebricklanegallery.com