Paul Stolper, 31 Museum Street, London WC1A 1LH
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Paul Stolper Gallery, founded in 1998, works directly with artists to publish limited editions, as well as running an exhibition programme. The former has seen it work with many of the YBA generation, for example Damien Hirst, Mat Collishaw, Sarah Lucas and her partner Julian Simmons, and Gavin Turk.
Two nicely contrasting recent exhibitions were of Helen Beard and Susie Hamilton’s paintings: the former’s, you might say, as meticulously defined as the latter’s are meticulously undefined – but both engaging powerfully with human interaction. Historic work also features, such as a trove of unusual Picasso material under the heading ‘A Painter’s Studio should be a Laboratory’, and a comprehensive overview of Dora Maar’s 1930’s photography, part of the recent drive to recognise her merits independent of her involvement with Picasso.
Stolper has worked consistently with Eno – or Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , to name him fully – if more briefly than Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano María de los Remedios de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. Eno graduated from Winchester School of Art in 1969, and is as implausibly productive in visual art as in music. He’s next up, opening this Thursday (May 13th) with ‘Blocks’, a new series of paintings made during a two-day continuous performance in his London studio, when more than 400 primed birch ply panels were laid out across a number of long tables to be operated on by spraying over found shapes and dried pasta.
London’s gallery scene is varied, from small artist-run spaces to major institutions and everything in between. Each week, art writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives a personal view of a space worth visiting.
