Ingleby | Still Dancing | The Armory Show | Booth 404 | 6 - 8 September 2024: ...new adventures in non-representational painting & sculpture

PART I: THE ARMORY SHOW, NEW YORK, 6 - 8 SEPTEMBER

PART II: INGLEBY, EDINBURGH, 9 NOVEMBER - 20 DECEMBER 

David Batchelor is another artist who enjoys arranging abstract elements, also often grouped on shelves, as well as made into paintings, tapestries and sculptures, in a manner that continues an ongoing investigation into colour as first defined over twenty years ago in his book ‘Chromophobia’.  The materiality of his elements is another important factor in their choosing, as is the fact that they are so often found objects – reclaimed relics of the modern city in fragments of glass, concrete or cloth.

As with Logan, Chowdhary and Marchelli, the Glasgow-based artist Kevin Harman’s work sits somewhere between painting and sculpture, and like Batchelor he relies almost exclusively on found materials - working with salvaged window units and household paints that would otherwise be recycled or find their way to landfill. Despite their essentially urban origins in the detritus of Glasgow’s building trade the glass paintings that result are spectacular images that inadvertently reference the natural world and play between the poles of micro and macrocosm.

Surface, materiality, colour and cadence… ‘all things appear to us in the shape of forms… they affect us more or less intensely’.