World Within Worlds

World Within Worlds is BEARSPACE’s inaugural exhibition of the new calendar, featuring a major exhibition, off-site installation and performance programme by emerging and recently graduated artists.

Curated by BEARSPACE Director, Julia Alvarez

Artists: Suzanne Moxhay, Zander Olsen, Jaime Tarazona, Jane Ward, Jenny Wiener, Diana Taylor, Damien O’Connell, Steven Dickie
11 September 2010 - 09 October 2010

‘Get up, go to work, come home, get up, go work, come home but with an added element, something that wasn't there the day before, something that actually makes you think about all this routine, this place we live and call life. Ridiculous, odd, generous, pretentious and maybe a bit stupid but something that reminds us that real life is not elsewhere. It's here.’
Mark Titchner, Deptford X 2010

‘World within Worlds’ is BEARSPACE’s main curated exhibition of the year including recent graduates and emerging talent curated by BEARSPACE Director Julia Alvarez. This exhibition features artists who aim to subvert reality in response to the theme set by Mark Titchner for Deptford X, as well as unearth new burgeoning talent from the wealth of degree shows in 2010.

Each artist creates a world that teases our existence, taking elements of movement, architecture and landscape, subverting them by adding, subtracting and disseminating their visual structure.

11 September 2010 - 09 October 2010
Preview evening: Friday 24 September, 6.30-8.30 Part of Deptford Last Fridays (late opening of all galleries in Deptford with performance by Mark McGowan at 8.30 pm

Offsite installation:
‘The Calibration of We’
Artist: Stephen Dickie
Dates: 24 September – 3 October, 2010. Fri-Sun, 10-6 pm
(As part of the Deptford Art Map ‘Gallery PLOTS’ part of Deptford X)
Venue: APT Xtra Space, next to APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford London SE8
4SA.

Performance Programme:
‘The Re-enactment of the Death of Roaul Moat’
Artist: Mark McGowan
Date: Friday 24 September, 8.30-9 pm
Venue: APT Xtra Space, next to APT Gallery, 6 Creekside, Deptford London SE8 4SA.

Mike Chavez Dawson & Co. APOPHATIC Pareidolia is a condition... preview ...

Mike Chavez Dawson & Co. APOPHATIC Pareidolia is a condition... preview ...

APOPHATIC Pareidolia is a condition... Mike Chavez-Dawson (& Co.)

31 July 2010 - 28 August 2010

PREVIEW EVENING: FRIDAY, 30 July, 6.30-8.30 pm in association with Deptford Last Fridays, galleries in Deptford open until 8.30 pm, with afterparty at the Old Police Station.

APOPHATIC PEREIDOLIA is a condition… features two new works ‘Hypotyposis’ and ‘The Obvious Manifesto, [The Question Hangs]’ by Mike Chavez-Dawson, both continues the artists interest in creating multi-layered ‘performative’ works that explore the slippage between the artists intention and the audiences perception; via a complex web of narratives, art history & theory, social and psychoanalytical reference points.

Here he’s utilised documentation from two bodies of ‘performative’ works to create a series of laser etchings that sit between drawing, print, sculpture and performance. Chavez-Dawson also continues to reconcile ‘authorship’ boundaries by negotiating and revealing collaborative components to diffuse an individual agency.

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/