"Underground on BROADWAY" Exhibition
Broadway Gallery
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Underground on BROADWAY is a London built exhibition of young, emerging British talent showing at Broadway Gallery, New York this summer. Made up of nine artists’ work, the show is eclectic in both medium and specific subject, a collection of early inspiration, showing how these initial pieces play off one another in terms of style and raw imagination.
The opening will be an innovative interactive experience, with live web streaming back to England for those who couldn’t be in New York, and the opportunity to text and email the artists participating creating a trans-Atlantic perspective between two countries miles apart. Encouraged by Underground’s sister show Pop-Up NY, this is will be a unique opportunity to see two cities in visual dialogue, as the works, ranging widely in medium, will hang adjacent from one another. Documented constantly online, Underground on BROADWAY aims to manipulate all that modern communication can offer, and the climatic opening will be one not to be missed.
Often reliant on place and surrounding, Underground’s works are reactions to the world their artists find themselves in, visual expressions of situation and its currents of influence. What many of the artists were particularly taken with was the idea of their art traveling from its place of origin to be deliberately displayed in another environment, and the effect that this would have on both the art and viewers’ reactions to it. Adam Higman’s piece is a tampered counting ‘clicker’ encased in a perspex box. The counter holds the amount of clicks it took for the box, and the show itself, to travel from London to New York; it is a three dimensional illustration of traveled time enclosed in space. Leanne Elliott (RART) captures the dark, wet shining pavement between a Londoner’s legs; her photography, 120 Nights of Sodom, tells the tales of a city’s nightly underbelly. Sam Hodge takes its estates in broad daylight, framing for us a view across the street in Queens Road Peckham, South London. Sophie Duckworth’s Habliments are a conception of place. Coloured threads dripping with the purity of white wax and the decadence of gold, these are hanging memories of a heritage imagined, a past visualised in an ecclesiastical vision casting shadows on the wall.
Origin, of place, person and reaction, feature throughout the Underground on BROADWAY show. Only encouraged by one another’s varied approach, the show demonstates how each individual artist pushes the boundaries of their visual exploration, through their mediums of installation, painting, drawing and photography.
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Schedule
from July 01, 2010 to July 15, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-07-01 from 18:00 to 20:00