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EOAPROJECTS.COM EOA.PROJECTS GALLERY @EOAPROJECTS 40 ELCHO STREET EOA. #EOAPROJECTS LONDON SW11 4AU PROJECTS Mon- Sat 10:00 - 17:30 Alex Katz, Vivien in Black Hat, 2010, Silkscreen in 34 colors, Very Important People 73 x 102 cm, Edition of 75 Sir Peter Blake, Mel Bochner, Chuck Close, Damien Hirst, Paul Insect, Noorah Kareem, Alex Katz, Jeff Koons, Eric Parnes, Mohammed Shammarey, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andy Warhol, Joe Webb and Russell Young PRIVATE VIEW FRI 6 FEB / 6.30 – 8.30 PM EOA.PROJECTS GALLERY 40 ELCHO STREET LONDON SW11 4AU A Very Important Person (VIP) is a person who is accorded special privileges due to his or her status or importance. The special treatment usually involves separation from common people, and a higher level of comfort. ARTISTS Sir Peter Blake is perhaps the most recognized and highly industry, having produced iconic album covers for the Beatles, regarded artist of the British Pop Art movement. Much of his Paul Weller, The Who, and Oasis. output – such as the sleeve for The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ – has achieved iconic status. Blake’s work reflects his fascination with all streams of Mel Bochner’s approach and materials constantly vary; popular culture, and the beauty to be found in everyday in fact, the artist formally disavowed allegiance to a single objects and surroundings. Many of his works feature found material in his famous essay titled “the Medium and the printed materials such as photographs, comic strips or Tedium” (2010). Bochner—who has produced paintings, advertising texts, combined with bold geometric patterns installations, and photography—is noted to be one of the and the use of primary colours. The works perfectly capture most influential pioneers of Conceptual art, and the organizer the effervescent and optimistic ethos of the sixties, but of the first Conceptual art exhibition in 1966. A recurring theme are also strikingly fresh and contemporary. There is also a in Bochner’s work is the relationship between language and strain of sentimentality and nostalgia running throughout his physical space or color. This is famously demonstrated in his work, with particular focus towards childhood innocence and “Measurement” installations of the late 1960s, visualizing reminiscence, as can be seen clearly in his recent Alphabet the exact dimensions of rooms and exhibition spaces, and series. Blake is renowned for his connection with the music thesaurus-inspired paintings of a single word and its synonyms. EOAPROJECTS.COM EOA.PROJECTS GALLERY @EOAPROJECTS 40 ELCHO STREET EOA. #EOAPROJECTS LONDON SW11 4AU PROJECTS Mon- Sat 10:00 - 17:30 Bochner formally studied under Douglas Wilson and Wilfred Alex Katz is the outstanding protagonist of figurative Painting, Readio, though his eventual style would draw strong influence and one of the most influential painters in the world. Alex from the works of Clyfford Still and Jean Dubuffet. Katz was often said to be one of the father of the Pop Art movement, but his style was always independent on the borderline between abstraction and realism. His paintings Chuck Close reinvented painting with his monumental are the result of a transformation of the three-dimensional portraits, rendered with exquisite, exacting realism from word in simplified landscapes and portraits of sophisticated photographic sources. Playing with ideas of scale, color, and woman on canvas. Katz is well known for featuring his own form, Close has become famous for his rigorous, gridded social milieu often depicting parties, portraits of friends application of individual color squares, which, although and fellow artists, and most notably, his wife Ada. Katz also abstract up close, form unified, highly realistic images from worked with collage, printmaking, and set design, increasingly afar. “I think most paintings are a record of the decisions concentrating on these mediums and developing freestanding that the artist made,” he said. “I just perhaps make them sculptural cut outs. He later painted large-scale landscapes a little clearer than some people have.” Close’s artificially and continues to work with natural themes in form of large restrictive painting techniques stem in part from physical scale flower scenes in his works today. limitations—he suffers from an inability to recognize faces, and had a spinal injury in 1988 that left him largely paralyzed. Close is particularly known for his portraits of artists, having Jeff Koons playfully tests the boundaries of commerce, depicted Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, and Richard celebrity, banality and pleasure. He turns banal commercial Serra, among countless others. His work links him not only or everyday objects into art icons by using seductive materials, with Photorealists but also to Conceptual Art. a shift of scale and a contextual displacement. Koons’ large- scale vinyl “Inflatables”, his enormous chromium stainless steel “Balloon Dog” or the giant “Puppy” and “Split Rocker” Damien Hirst undoubtedly the most acclaimed contemporary made of hundreds of flowers all follow this principle. Originally artist of his generation. Genuine star of the YBA (Young British licensed as a commodities broker, in the late 1970ies Koons Artists) movement, Hirst has always made a point of mixing decided to become an artist and moved from Wall Street into a up his genres. Artist, entrepreneur and celebrity, he has factory-like studio in SoHo with hundreds of assistants. Since produced much of the most spectacular works in recent years then, he has produced different series like the Pre-New, a and helped to revolutionize the art market. From Freeze, series of domestic objects in strange new configurations, The the artist’s first exhibition which he organized while still at Equilibrium Series, consisting of basketballs floating in distilled Goldsmith’s College in 1988, to the prestigious Turner Prize water tanks, or the Banality Series culminating with a sculpture awarded to him in 1995, from the diamond-encrusted skull of Michael Jackson and his chimpanzee Bubbles. Koons is (For the Love of God, 2008) to the controversial sale of his work widely regarded as one of the most important, influential, and at Sotheby’s in the same year, Damien Hirst always seeks to controversial contemporary artists. He constantly tests the subvert the system and thereby create some truly emblematic boundaries between art and commerce, high culture and mass pieces of art. Inspired by such diverse themes as life, death, culture, readymade and art object, by decontextualizing his art, science and medicine Damien Hirst makes use of many objects and lifting them to iconic statuses. He has lifted art varied techniques including installation, sculpture, painting, out of the enclave of the genius-driven artist into the realms drawing, etching and silkscreen. of nowadays pop and commerce driven culture. Paul Insect is best known for his exhibition “Bullion” at the Eric Parnes is a multimedia artist and considers his art to Lazarides Gallery. He also goes by the name PINS and works be “Neo-Orientalist,” meaning that which delves into the with artist Luke Insect as the collective ‘Insect.” He has also visual appropriation and socio-political dynamics between previously worked alongside Banksy at the London Cans Eastern and Western culture. In a body of work that includes Festival. photography, sculpture, painting, installation, and video, Insect’s work has evolved from Victorian graphics to Dada- Parnes draws equally from contemporary and historic esque collage. There is a primitiveness to his aggressive references. Past projects have addressed pop culture, subject matter that is almost disguised by his joyous use of consumerism, corporate life, and violence, as well as the colour and entertaining style. Insect’s dark content lends itself Persian Empire and ancient Mesopotamia. His works also to a fun, playful display of baby heads split open, Bishops build upon the artist’s experiences as an Iranian-American: on i-books and smoking joints with clown hair and mice “I do see the two worlds from both ends—from the East and noses, skeletal playboy bunnies adorned in bling and angels from the West,” he says. “I can be found somewhere in there. clutching syringes. His images are provoking yet light-hearted and demand a sense of morality that transcends common acceptance. Mohammed Shammarey is a self-taught artist; he works with painting, photography, silk-screen printing and sculpture. He has held many solo exhibitions including shows held at his Noorah Kareem born 1990 graduated with a diploma from the atelier in Baghdad (in 1988, 1991 and 1999); FA Gallery, Kuwait, Arts & Skills Institute, Riyadh in 2009. In 2012 Kareem pursued 2010, and Word, Object, Motion (with Simeen Farhat), Anya a degree in the field of special Education- Behavioural Disorder Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, in 2010. He has also participated & Autism, Riyadh. Alumni of the Crossway Foundation Create in group exhibitions such as Word into Art, British Museum, & Inspire competition 2011. Kareems work had been featured London, 2006; Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, University in Design Magazine, Ayadi Magazine, Al Riyadh newspaper and of North Texas, Denton, Texas, travelling exhibition, 2005–2008; Al Hayat Newspaper and held in private collections in Saudi Iraqi Artists in Exile, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Arabia, the United States and Australia. Houston, Texas, 2008; and Modernism and Iraq, Wallach Art EOAPROJECTS.COM EOA.PROJECTS GALLERY @EOAPROJECTS 40 ELCHO STREET EOA. #EOAPROJECTS LONDON SW11 4AU PROJECTS Mon- Sat 10:00 - 17:30 Gallery, Columbia University, 2009. 2013 - an Exhibition of EOA.PROJECTS Works by Mohammed Al Shammarey ARTSPACE Dubai. 2012 Anya Tish Gallery Houston Tx Collective Reaction: FotoFest 2014 EOA.Projects was established in 2009 as a gallery platform for work is often inspired by literature and poetry, particularly the artists working between the Middle East, Europe and United writings of Rumi, Mahmoud Darwish and the Epic of Gilgamesh. States. Under the vision of Stephen Stapleton, founder of Since 2008, he has lived and worked in Houston, Texas.