event

Dorian Gray

14.Jun.07
18.00-21.30

Sponsors John Jones

Vegas Gallery
Dorian Gray
Oaklands, 64-66 Redchurch Street
London e2 7dp
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“Dorian Gray”
Andy Harper, Ben Cove, Infinity Bunce, John Stark,
Katherine Lubar, Nick Dawes, Piers Secunda,
Shane Bradford, Simon Naish, James Roper
15 June - 15 July 2007
Private View Thursday 14 June 2007 18.00-21.00
Open:Thursday-Sunday 12.00-18.00
www.vegasgallery.co.uk
The Vegas Gallery, Oakland’s
64-66 Redchurch Street London E2 7DP

PRESS RELEASE
Release Date: 4 March 2007

“Dorian Gray”
Curated by Katherine Lubar and Infinity Bunce
The title is taken from the literary masterpiece by Oscar Wilde. This novel’s central theme is that of the character Dorian and a painting of him that seems to take on a life of its own.
The painting takes on the physical aspects of Dorian’s journey through life, growing old and showing the ravages of Dorian’s own cruel actions, whereas Dorian himself stays looking young and innocent. The novel highlights and explores the process of painting and we learn to understand the concept of the story that lies beneath it.

This exhibition consists of 10 contemporary painters who are involved particularly in the process of painting. The title bears reference to Wilde’s writing that painting can have an organic form of its own and can be taken as a ‘thing in itself’ within the methods and processes in which it is created. This is evident in the work of Piers Secunda and Shane Bradford. Where the actual paint itself almost paints itself. The paint draws its own breath and its journey creates its own destiny. Paint flows off Shane’s books as if the material is speaking out to us in a visual dialogue of its own being. A space in itself where it creates its own world. A world within a world. A breath of independence and separateness – the separateness that Dorian’s painting obtained as it grew independent from its subject.

This show is not a show that is concerned with being figurative, abstract or conceptual. This exhibition is about the methods of painting itself and the language in which the painter expresses these p