Ewan Gibbs, Amory Artist Representative at Timothy Taylor Gallery, LDN, 9 Sept - 18 Oct

Exhibition Description:

Timothy Taylor presents 13 new drawings by Ewan Gibbs. They are all titled 'New York' and represent the New York we think we know - with its bright taxi headlights and impressively towering buildings.

Gibbs painstakingly translates these images into drawings in a reductively minimalist way, creating works that are stripped of colour, detail and photographic clarity, while simultaneously retaining a sense of the artist's careful hand.

This leaves an impression of a still recognisable scene consisting of row upon row of hand drawn slash marks hung on the scaffold of an invisible grid scored into the paper. The initial illusion dissolves into an intricate detail of mark making the closer one gets, prompting the viewer to step back to again comprehend what they are seeing.

Description:

Image: Ewan Gibbs
New York, 2008
Pencil on paper
Image: 9 7/8 x 7 1/2 in. / 25 x 19 cm
Paper 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. / 29.7 x 21 cm
Courtesy the artist and Timothy Taylor Gallery , London
Copyright: Ewan Gibbs, 2008

Ewan Gibbs (b.1973) graduated from Goldsmiths College, London, in 1996. He has exhibited internationally and solo exhibitions include Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas, (2008); Paul Morris Gallery, New York, (2007), and Interim Art, London, (2003).

Gibbs has been chosen as the artist to represent the Armory show in 2009. His work is in numerous public collections including the Tate Gallery, London; MoMA, New York, and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. He has recently been commissioned to make a series of drawings by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to be exhibited in 2010.

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