Private View for Lost Boys

06.Nov.07
6-11 pm

Rod Barton Invites
Lost Boys
Above the Griffin Pub,
93 Leonard Street
London EC2A 4RD
+447989437214
rod@rodbarton.com
www.rodbarton.com
Tube Old Street, Liverpool Street, Shoreditch / Hoxton

Rod Barton Invites is proud to present its second group exhibition Lost Boys featuring four London based women artists working in paint. The title is derived as a counter-point to the first gallery group show, humorously titled Lady Holic which presented five male painters.

Lost Boys also refers to the fairy tale land of Peter Pan and his gang of lost boys. Adventure, narrative and exploration with their medium are intrinsic to these artists practice. The works exhibited, although selected in dialogue with each other, will compete to express their own distinctive styles through process-based methods.

Lost Boys includes Sarah Douglas who is currently exhibiting at the Jerwood Drawing Prize and recently showed with Katherine Kicinski in ‘Slipery Slope’ at the Eagle Gallery, Farringdon. Kicinski was an exhibitor at last years Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Mie Olise Kjaergaard, the most recent graduate of these painters, has recently been shortlisted for the new student prize “4 new sensations”, Brick lane, sponsored by Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4. Heidi Locher graduated from the Central Saint Martins MA program in 2006 and has been concentrating on making a new body of work - one of her larger canvas works will be shown.

Rod Barton Invites set up in early 2007 for the purpose of showcasing British and international contemporary art focusing primarily on contemporary abstract painting across the generations. The gallery program will include regular solo, group exhibitions and off-site projects. For the last 3 years Roderick Barton (Gallery Director) has been independently curating contemporary art exhibitions in and around London.