Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
15 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix founded her eponymous gallery in Spitalfields in 2017.
15 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix founded her eponymous gallery in Spitalfields in 2017.
8 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Perimeter, a non-profit exhibition space in Bloomsbury founded in 2018 by Alex Petalas. He’s a Swiss-Greek solicitor – and a collector: shows typically include works he owns and the space is named after his first purchase in 2011: a sculpture by Eva Rothschild.
1 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Hollybush Gardens belongs to the honourable tradition (Frith Street, Seventeen, Mimosa House…) of galleries named after where they used to be rather than where they are.
25 October 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Alison Jacques’ new space is directly opposite Waddington Custot – where she had her first permanent gallery job.
18 October 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Cork Street has its mojo back, with new arrivals Alison Jacques, Tiwani and Stephen Friedman adding substantially to what’s on view.
15 October 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Frieze Masters (to 15 Oct, viewing rooms online to 18 Oct) may have plenty of relatively familiar types of work… Read More
27 September 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
OHSH Projects, founded in 2021, sounds like a place for the occasional off-beat presentation, but partners in art and life Henry Hussey and Sophia Olver
20 September 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Angela Flowers (1932-2023) founded her eponymous gallery in 1970, initially concentrating on living British artists in Central London before expanding the roster and pioneering the late 90’s trend of galleries moving east
13 September 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Krittika Sharma co-founded indigo+madder in Deptford in 2019, then moved to a more central location last year –
6 September 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Tension Fine Art has operated since 2019 in the somewhat unlikely locality of Penge in South-East London.
30 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The National Gallery… it sounds pretty comprehensive, though there’s no sculpture (where’s that national gallery?) and a more accurate title would be something like ‘The National Gallery of European Paintings by Men, 1260 – 1920’, with hardly anything from other continents and just 0.5% by women.
23 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
If anyone tells me they are going to White Cube’s Bermondsey space, I advise them to drop in at Cecilia Brunson Projects, which flies comparatively under the radar but is only a stone’s throw away.
16 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Damien Hirst: ‘Octa’, 2021 from the ‘Seascapes’ – oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm Phillips, 30 Berkeley Square, London… Read More
9 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Jay Jopling set up White Cube in a small space on Duke Street, St. James’s, where 75 shows by 75 different artists were presented between 1993-2001, including several by the YBAs with whom the gallery become closely associated.
2 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Ask London artists who they would most like to show with, and the answer is often ‘Sadie Coles’
26 July 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Lehmann Maupin, though, has had a permanent presence since October 2020, when Cromwell Place became the London location of the gallery founded by Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin in New York in 1996
19 July 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Ben Brown’s background was in the secondary market – he spent ten years at Sotheby’s, taking a particular and ongoing interest in Italian art – before he opened his eponymous gallery in London in 2004
12 July 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The gallery was established in East London in 1995, and for much of this century was on Hopton Street, conveniently close to Tate Modern.
5 July 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Tracking back, The Mayor Gallery was actually the first to open on the street, when founded by Fred Mayor (1903-73) in 1925.
31 May 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Skarstedt originated in New York and now operates in Paris and London as well. It was founded in 1994 by Swedish-born Per Skarstedt
24 May 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
In something of a contrast to last week’s David Zwirner, Aleph – founded in 2019 – has the simplest of gallery models:
17 May 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
It’s hardly a surprise that there are good things to see at David Zwirner, generally considered to be one of the four biggest ‘mega-galleries’ in the world
12 May 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
This year’s Photo London is above average, with two excellent special exhibitions (of Martin Parr’s recent work and ‘Writing her… Read More