Major new exhibition at White Space Art Gallery coming soon

SIMON YEO     ICONS & HEROES    SPRING 2012

Exciting news from the Whitespace Gallery we hear… exciting exhibitions on their way throughout 2012, begining with a major exhibition from British artist Simon Yeo. Well known for his award winning figurative paintings of people from the film and sporting worlds and a big name in this city since his exhibition at the Haywerth back in 2006, he now brings us his new collection of his personal idols from the soccer world. With another vibrant exhibition titled ‘Icons and Heroes’ this is a real must-see if you’re in town anytime soon.

Featured interview in USA Today, 2009

Famous for his portraits of Tiger Woods and Magic Johnson (see below), he now brings – to American audiences at least – less well known personalities from European soccer.  That said, they still have that same distinctive style, strong line and vibrancy of color.

Following up from an NBC documentary on his work in 2006 and the article in USA Today (above) his reputation and popularity this side of the pond has grown at a phenomenal rate. Now over here for a sixth year running, each time his work shows us something new about how we perceive the athlete. Whether you know the subject or not – you’ll find plenty of reasons to get excited about this new exhibition – Icons and Heroes. Standing in front of these large canvases, you get a sense of the real admiration the artist holds for his subject as well as the excitement of the sporting occasion.  Catch it if you can.

Steven Gerrard

Ashley Cole

Michael Ballack

Jermaine Defoe

Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time

Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time.

Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time traces the development of realism in American art between 1900 and 1940, emphasizing the diverse ways that artists depicted the sweeping transformations in urban and rural life that occurred during this period. The exhibition highlights the work of Edward Hopper, whose use of the subject matter of modern life to portray universal human experiences made him America’s most iconic realist painter of the 20th century. Drawn primarily from the Whitney Museum’s extensive holdings, Modern Life places Hopper’s achievements in the context of his contemporaries—the Ashcan School painters with whom he came of age as an artist in the century’s first decades, the 1920’s Precisionist artists, whose explorations of abstract architectural geometries mirrored those of Hopper, and a younger generation of American Scene painters, who worked alongside Hopper in New York during the 1930s. Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time includes approximately 80 works in a range of media by Hopper and artists such as John Sloan, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Paul Strand, Charles Demuth, Guy Pène du Bois, Charles Sheeler, Charles Burchfield, Ben Shahn, Reginald Marsh. The show is accompanied by a 250-page illustrated catalogue with essays by American and German scholars, produced in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title which appeared at the Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, and the Kunsthal Rotterdam in 2009-10.

Modern Life: Edward Hopper and His Time is organized by Barbara Haskell and Sasha Nicholas.