Deptford art Map Tour//Friday 30th July//Two tours taking place - 4.30pm and 6.30pm

Visit galleries in Deptford and beyond. A diverse range of art and spaces, behind the scenes snapshots and words from the people who make it all happen. Deptford is fast becoming one of the most talked about creative areas in London, with galleries and studios opening constantly, expanding the wealth of exciting visuals and innovative experiences that already inhabit the area. Each month we give you the opportunity to explore this creative hub, with an experienced tour guide, who will show you another side to the area. Extend your evening by booking a table at the Greenwich Rivington Bar and Grill our partner restaurant, to enjoy a two course meal and cocktail as a special package.

Meet at BEARSPACE Gallery 152 Deptford High Street. Tours leave on time, please be prompt. Please bring your Paypal receipt with you. Tours conclude at at The Rivington Bar and Grill in Greenwich or Greenwich Station.

Book here: www.deptfordartmap.com

Tour Price: £15

Tour Price with meal: £35

the Assistant Part 2, opens this Friday 6.30-8.30 pm - Blue Curry ...

the Assistant Part 2, opens this Friday 6.30-8.30 pm - Blue Curry ...

ISABEL and CASPAR ROCK // EYE PAIN @ BEARSPACE

ISABEL and CASPAR ROCK // EYE PAIN @ BEARSPACE

25 June 2010 - 24 July 2010

Private View: Friday 25th June 2010 6.30-8.30pm

Open: Wed-Sat 10am-6pm

BEARSPACE is pleased to present the works of Isabel and Caspar Rock in a collaborative exhibition, for which the two sibling artists have created a series of large scale drawing works, collaborative pieces, animation and sculpture, drawing the viewer in their phychadelic world of pencils, pens and paper.

 

The works featured in Eye Pain are incredibly detailed and vivid. These dense, richly textured images are the result of years of development by both Isabel and Caspar Rock, and this is reflected in the level of aesthetic depth that the pieces offer, the audience encountering new elements within the works on each viewing. The pair site their influences broadly; these include comics, Japanese animations, Gothic architecture, medieval  gangsta rap, mythology and Dantes Infernoe. Eye Pain itself refers to the physical experience that each of the pieces offer the viewer, the works themselves so beautiful and complex, that they become difficult to look at.

The focus upon low-tech materials is a significant element in the work. Basic, yet essential items such as pens, pencils and paper, and simple print processes are used. This emphasis only heightens the extreme attention to detail present in each work. Encompassing its viewer, the exhibition encourages a journey into the depths of the imagination. This experience is centred around the individual, who is surrounded and saturated by imagery, most surfaces covered, making it difficult to escape. 

 

Isabel and Caspar Rock feel that reality is boring. The works in Eye Pain offer a parallel world that is anything but tedious. This world is new, unknown, exciting, uncomfortable and challenging. In the artists quest to bring their audience into their world, they are hosting a number of interactive events, such as a 'zine workshop and lecture, and a drawing battle. 

THE ASSISTANT @ BEARSPACE

THE ASSISTANT @ BEARSPACE

Private View: Friday 28th May 2010, 6.30-8.30 pm
(in association with Deptford Last Fridays)

Open: PART 1:14-29th May, 2010
PART 2: 4-19th June 2010

BEARSPACE, in association with peer sessions, is pleased to present a series of two exhibitions entitled The Assistant starting in May 2010. Each exhibition will pair up an emerging and an established artist with similar concerns, who will collaborate to produce the exhibition. The established artist will send the emerging artist or assistant a list of rules one month prior to the exhibition opening.

Emerging Artists:
Kate Pickering
Blue Curry
Established Artists:
Gordon Cheung
Maria Fusco

The Assistant aims to explore the practices of both artists through this process of exchange, but also to question ideas around the construction of an exhibition, revealing something about the processes an exhibition may go through before it is finally realised.

A weblog will accompany the exhibition, including the original list of rules and documentation of the process of exchange and decision making that has led to the creation of the work, and interaction from the public is invited. The resulting exhibitions will last for two weeks each, with the blog, a discussion and a screening of peer video work accompanying the shows.

Please view and contribute here:
http://theassistant2010.blogspot.com/

MECHA - Seung Pyo Hong (solo exhibition) @ BEARSPAC

MECHA - Seung Pyo Hong (solo exhibition) @ BEARSPACE
10 April 2010 - 08 May 2010
Private View: 09 April 2010 6.30 - 8.30pm
BEARSPACE is pleased to present MECHA, new large scale drawings and metal plate etchings by Korean artist Seung Pyo Hong, in his first ever solo exhibition.

Hong has created a range of new works for the exhibition. Having previously worked in a variety of mediums, including installation, oil pastels and etching, Hong has produced a collection of hand drawings and paintings, combining a number of production methods creating his own personal style.

His work depicts complex imagery of the organic and the mechanical. Hong believes that our habitat is now made up of technology and machinery, as opposed to a natural environment. This environment is affective and influential within our lives, eventually becoming our reason for evolution. The artist has created a comment on the current social and economic world, through the anthropomorphism of the machinery he depicts. He presents ideas of conflict, opposition, metamorphosis and process.

PRINT NOW @ BEARSPACE Gallery

Open: 27 February – 27 March, 2010     Wednesday – Saturday 12.30-5 pm

Private View: Friday 26 February, 6.30-8.30 pm**

(in association with Deptford Last Fridays http://www.deptfordartmap.com

BEARSPACE launches PRINT NOW, an innovative exhibition of new works by emerging artists based on the concept of PRINT as a medium and a repetitive process. Works range from sculpture constructed from recycled printed fliers, to etching on aluminium and lithograph. 

 

Artists have been selected by a panel of curators and writers who are specifically concerned with emerging art, including Julia Alvarez, Director of BEARSPACE, Kay Saatchi, collector and curator, Pryle Behrman, writer and curator of Art Projects and Mike Sims, Deputy Editor of Printmaking Today. Guest artists including David Shrigley and Billy Childish have also been invited to exhibit to represent artists working with print techniques and repetitive processes in a unique and successful way.

 

Prices range from £25 - £700 for edition prints and one off works.  Portfolios of artwork selected by the panel will also be available, as a sample of some of the most exciting works on display. All works will also be available online via www.bearspace.co.uk  and www.culturelabel.com  

**All available artworks will be available for 15% deduction on the opening night only (Friday 26 February, 6.30-8.30 pm) 

For a full list of available works please go to http://www.bearspace.co.uk/catalogue

Image: Phil Ashcroft, Yeti Over Mount Fuji with Shooting Star,’ 2009

PRINT NOW at The London Art Fair

Print Now at the London Art Fair

13 January 2010 - 17 January 2010 Stand P19

BEARSPACE launches PRINT NOW, an innovative exhibition of over 100 works by emerging artists based on the concept of PRINT as a medium and a repetitive process.

Artists have been selected by a panel of curators and writers who are specifically concerned with emerging art, including Julia Alvarez, Director of BEARSPACE, Kay Saatchi, collector and curator, Pryle Behrman, writer and curator of Art Projects and Mike Sims, Deputy Editor of Printmaking Today. See selection panel here.

Prices range from £25 - £700 for editioned prints and one off works. Portfolios of artwork selected by Kay Saatchi and Director Julia Alvarez will also be available, as a sample of some of the most exciting works on display.

All prints will be available online at http://www.bearspace.co.uk and http://www.culturelabel.com from 13 January 2010