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10 Oct 2016
“Drawing is not a mysterious activity. Drawing is making an image which expresses commitment and involvement…rejecting ideas which are possible to preconceive…destroying images that lie, discarding images that are dead.” Leon Kossoff, in Frank …
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10 Oct 2015
The Royal Academy of Arts in London has just announced un upcoming exhibition featuring portraits by David Hockney. Slated to open next year, the show will include over 70 portraits the artist has been steadily …
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6 Jun 2015
“To make his photographic works, Hockney took hundreds of individual digital photographs of the various parts of his subjects, and then stitched these images together into a single scene. Like his paintings, these composite …
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1 Jan 2014
A comprehensive survey of work by British artist Richard Deacon opens at Tate Britain this February. He was the subject of a recent interview with Martin Gayford in the Telegraph, where he describes what …
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12 Dec 2013
Read a really lovely piece on Leon Kossoff’s most recent body of work, centering on the East London neighborhood of Arnold Circus, the city where Kossoff grew up. Once regarded as London’s poorest slum, …
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11 Nov 2013
by Coline Milliard LONDON — Leon Kossoff has drawn and painted this city relentlessly for more than six decades, and today, at 86, he
can still be found sketching the street corners that have inspired …
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4 Apr 2013
Leon Kossoff was recently profiled in the UK-based journal The Guardian.  Rarely granting interviews, Kossoff “conversed” with chief arts writer Charlotte Higgins about his current exhibition “London Landscapes” – which opens next week at …
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3 Mar 2013
Richard Deacon’s commissioned cornice in London’s Piccadilly Square has finally been revealed to the public, and it is stunning! Comprised of 30 individual ceramic sculptures and measuring 82 ft. (25 m) across, Deacon utilized …
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8 Aug 2012
In 2008, Shirazeh Houshiary was commissioned to create the East Window for St. Martin in the Fields, London's famous church located in Trafalgar Square. Embodying an abstract cross-infused designed, the window becomes especially poignant given …
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7 Jul 2012
A recent article published by The Independent, explores Richard Deacon’s solitary approach to creating work in his studio. In the article, Deacon remarks that he prefers to work independently in his studio and has been …
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6 Jun 2012
Tony Bevan in his studio today preparing for his forthcoming exhibition that will open next season at L.A. Louver on September 6. The exhibition will feature the artist’s new monumental tree subjects, self-portrait heads, …