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TOM LEAMON: IRREVERENCE

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Thursday, 31 March 2016 to Friday, 27 May 2016
Opening: 
Thursday, 31 March 2016 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm
The Search for The Emerald City, acrylic paint and varnish on cut canvas, 240 x 140 cm, 2013

Frameless Gallery, London and Merzbau Gallery, Miami present Irreverence - Tom Leamon’s first solo exhibition in the United States. On offer is a collection of paintings spanning the last 5 years, works which are both thought-provoking and playful. They are experiments into the deconstruction of the human form, on both a physical and psychological level. 

Rooted in mark-making, symbolism, poetry / story-telling and illustration, Leamon’s works often combine meticulous detail with raw abstract painterly gestures. The artist uses painting as a release, and in a quasi-monastic fashion, Leamon locks himself in his studio for long periods of time working and reworking the surface of the canvas. With complete freedom and an enduring willingness to explore, his impulsive, almost childlike painting techniques represent both playtime and profound meditation. 

Pixelated faceted figures give a nod to Picasso’s Harlequin, crowns, poison bottles and skulls echo Basquiat’s graffiti while works like The Search for The Emerald City and Mixing the Remedy feel almost like Aztec relics, re-imagined frescoes of a bygone era.

The exhibition takes the viewer on a compelling journey into the dark depths of the human psyche, it contorts one’s senses and leaves the viewer with an overwhelming thirst to peal back one more layer of paint and discover more.

Artist ( Description ): 

TOM LEAMON

2015 - Group exhibition Whispers | Ronchini Gallery, London

2015 - Group exhibition The Behaviour of Being | Cob Gallery, London

2015 - Group exhibition States of Matter | Blacks Soho, London

 

2014 - Group exhibition DE-Pict  | Nosco / Frameless, London

2014 - Solo project The Truscott Arts Programme, Maida Vale, London

 

2013 - Group exhibition Intimate | Nosco / Frameless, London

2013 - Solo exhibition Les Aventures A Venir | Frameless Gallery. London

2013 - Publication of book Contemporary Religion

2013 - Solo exhibition The Clock Shop | Gallery 223, London

2013 - Group exhibition Pleasant Remains | Gallery 223, London

2013 - Solo exhibition Back to Nature | Cave, London

 

2012 - Group exhibition And You What Do You Worship?  | The Crypt Euston Road, London

2011 – Group exhibition One Night Stand & Dressed For Breakfast | Cave, London

2009 - First Solo exhibition at the Rag Factory

2005 - Launch of  'The Lip Man Virus' art collective. Over the next two years the collective takes over a number of disused and commercial buildings all over London and organizes Pop Up Exhibitions

2004 - Bursary Award, Red Cow Art Studios for developing new work, Bermondsey, London

2003 - BA in Fine Art, Loughborough University, UK

             

 

Venue ( Address ): 

MERZBAU GALLERY

2301 NORTH MIAMI AVENUE

MIAMI, FL 33127  USA

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