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Yigal Ozeri
Flowers in the Desert 1 - 31 Oct 2021 For his second exhibition at Pontone Gallery, internationally-acclaimed, photo-realist painter Yigal Ozeri pursues two strands of enquiry. He presents us with a suite of urban scenes of New York and, in thematic contrast, a series of paintings of a solitary model posing in Red Rock Canyon in the Nevada desert, near to Las Vegas. Closely-observed and fastidiously-rendered in his trademark technique, the images possess a startling sense of immediacy and palpable presence. Pontone Gallery is pleased to showcase this powerful body of work in 'Flowers in the Desert' at our flagship gallery space in London. Read more -
Kathryn Kampovsky
Do No Harm 9 Sep - 10 Oct 2021 Pontone Gallery USA is delighted to showcase new paintings by Kathryn Kampovsky, a young, self-taught artist based in Atlanta, USA. Her figurative paintings incorporate elements of text and drawings, which overlay and complement skilfully-rendered portraits of her subjects. The graphic additions act as a commentary, suggesting clues to deeper and wider readings of the characters depicted. Read more -
Emma Stone-Johnson
Elegant Complexity 26 Aug - 26 Sep 2021 Pontone Gallery is thrilled to present a collection of paintings by British artist Emma Stone-Johnson. Elegant Complexity marks Stone-Johnson's debut exhibition in London and her first with Pontone Gallery. Born in Brighton in 1982, Stone-Johnson works in oil, acrylic, pigment and ink on canvas to investigate abstraction with a subtle, liquid palette of diffuse and tonal colour. Her lyrical handling and delicacy of controlled touch makes for pictures which are complex networks of sinuous and dynamically gestural marks. Read more -
JIHI
Present Perfect Progressive 26 Aug - 26 Sep 2021 South Korean artist JIHI is a creature of digital culture, intimately familiar with its tropes and abbreviations. She paints clusters and sequences of symbols and pictograms in flat, bright colour. Her compositions are assertively decorative, eschewing any spatial depth. Occasional letterforms spell out banal slogans, echoing the simple concepts of online attention-seeking. Pontone Gallery is pleased to showcase this compelling series of paintings in our London gallery. Read more -
Timothy Spall
Out of the Storm 18 Jun - 25 Jul 2021 To many of us, especially in the UK, Timothy Spall needs no introduction. He is an actor well-known and famous enough to be a household name. His thorough preparation for his award-winning role as Mr Turner in the eponymous film, laid the groundwork for this foray into painting. This experience provided the spark and confidence to set himself a rigorous and public challenge. Mounting such an exhibition is not done lightly, and Pontone Gallery is delighted to present Spall's inaugural solo exhibition in London. Read more -
Clive Head
The Parlour Paintings 21 May - 13 Jun 2021 Pontone Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by the long-established and critically-acclaimed artist Clive Head. This is the artist's first solo exhibition at the gallery's elegant new space in London’s Soho district. Head’s work explores an unfixed world of allusion and suggestion, where images elide and meld into each other. He deploys a symphonic array of masterfully-handled colour and gestural brushwork to conjure compelling stories out of a personally-significant iconography. Read more -
Chris Rivers
Celestial Gardens 15 Apr - 16 May 2021 To celebrate the opening of our new London gallery on Newman Street, Pontone Gallery is thrilled to present Chris Rivers | Celestial Gardens, a collection of ten paintings inspired by the artist's ideas about the planets of the solar system. These are not representational images, but musings on their nature, physical properties and varied associations in myth, folklore and contemporary culture. Read more -
Pontone Gallery
Opening Exhibition 15 Apr - 16 May 2021 To celebrate the opening of our new London gallery on Newman Street, Pontone Gallery is delighted to present a curated exhibition of three distinguished artists. Featuring paintings by Henry Jabbour and Matteo Massagrande and photographs by Lee Jeonglok, the Pontone Gallery Opening Exhibition showcases a selection of works that underscore the combined influences of light, colour and the passage of time on the human psyche. Read more -
Malcolm Liepke
Sideways Glance (Selected Works, 2015 - 2021) 2 Apr - 16 May 2021 Pontone Gallery USA is delighted to present a collection of paintings by acclaimed American artist Malcolm Liepke. Including a selection of works painted between 2015 and 2021, this exhibition highlights quintessential elements featured in his figurative works. Read more -
Lee Jeonglok
Iceland 30 Mar - 16 May 2021 Pontone Gallery is delighted to showcase a series of new and exclusive works by the eminent South Korean artist Lee Jeonglok. The Iceland Series highlights Lee's continued exploration of the intersection of landscape and light, underscoring humankind's inherent, shared connection with the natural world. Read more -
J Louis
Anthology 4 - 30 Mar 2021 Pontone Gallery is pleased to present J Louis | Anthology at the gallery's downtown Augusta, GA location. This exhibition features a selection of works which reflect J Louis' profound interest in both the emotions and the thoughts of the subject and the viewer. Through his use of vivid colours, geometric shapes, harmonious groupings and textured surfaces, J Louis encourages his audience to contemplate how these singular elements combine to influence the perception of the painting as a whole. Read more -
Emil Alzamora
Mutability 18 Feb - 27 Mar 2021 Pontone Gallery presents a new collection of work by the artist Emil Alzamora. Born in Peru and educated in the USA, where his practice is based, he has built an impressive international curriculum vitae. Best known for his figurative sculpture, this exhibition also features paintings, a recent development. Read more -
South Korean Contemporary Art
15 Jan - 27 Feb 2021 Pontone Gallery is delighted to present this group exhibition of six acclaimed South Korean artists at the gallery’s downtown Augusta, GA location. With artworks ranging from ostensibly traditional oil and ink paintings to light box sculptures, solar LCD units and digital work on television screens, this is an exhibition that celebrates and explores the conjunction of time-honored Eastern artistic ideals with contemporary methods of execution and representation. Read more -
Matteo Massagrande
Into the Light 9 Dec 2020 - 27 Feb 2021 Born in 1959 in Padua, Italy, Matteo Massagrande is a painter steeped in the history and tradition of figurative representation. A highly accomplished painter of empty domestic interiors, his sumptuously-rendered spaces evoke a powerful sense of human presence and the passage of time. Read more -
Masters of Paint | Winter
13 Nov 2020 - 8 Jan 2021 This is an exhibition of six painters who explore and exploit process. Common to all is an obsessive interest in the materiality of paint and the technique of painting. Each presents the viewer with a rich and seductive surface. Each articulates their particular vision. Read more -
Yigal Ozeri
Lizzy 17 Sep - 11 Oct 2020 This new series of works focus upon a single subject, Lizzy Jagger. Ozeri channels his painstaking practice into her sylph-like model, placing her within classically evocative settings. She is his muse. Read more -
Henry Jabbour
Traces Remain 13 Aug - 13 Sep 2020 International artist, Henry Jabbour was born in Beirut and educated at the New York Academy of Art. He graduated in 2015 with a master's degree in fine art and printmaking. Relatively new to the art world, his paintings display a vivid use of colour and exuberant execution. He paints the figure. His loosely-indicated, schematic images are integrated into a highly worked and abstracted paint surface, scattered with incidental markings and subtle gestures. Read more -
Chris Rivers
The Mortal in the Material 9 Jul - 9 Aug 2020 Chris Rivers is a painter of sumptuously-coloured, turbulent skyscapes. The expressively- handled paint describes seething clouds, mists and vapours. Cyclones of elemental matter billow through an indeterminate void. On closer inspection however, tiny figures can be seen caught up in the maelstrom. Our perception of the paintings oscillates between the sublime vastness of nature and small-scale incidents of human jeopardy and disaster. This is in an old-master tradition of embedding memento mori, which are not at first apparent. Read more -
Masters of Paint
Augusta, Georgia 1 - 21 Jun 2020 Pontone Gallery presents a special exhibition in Augusta, Georgia. This is an exhibition of five painters, who explore and exploit process. Common to all is an obsessive interest in the materiality of paint and the technique of painting. Each presents the viewer with a rich and seductive surface. Each articulates their particular vision. Read more -
JIHI
Digital Graffiti 26 Mar - 7 Jun 2020 Pontone Gallery introduces the exuberantly-graphic paintings of South Korean artist, JIHI. Young and female, she is a creature of digital culture, intimately familiar with its tropes and abbreviations. Her images owe something to the structures of graffiti, but are also, more importantly, aligned with the forms and usages of the screen. Read more -
Salustiano
A Dream of Self 27 Feb - 19 Apr 2020 Pontone Gallery presents an exclusive selection of figurative paintings and drawings by acclaimed Spanish artist, Salustiano. These closely-observed and carefully-recorded studies of young models propose a particular ideal of male and female attractiveness. Read more -
Lee Jungwoong
Brush and Blue Abstraction 12 Dec 2019 - 19 Jan 2020 Lee Jungwoong is a Korean artist of great experience, in demand worldwide and represented in many public and private collections. A master of technique, he brings a blend of cultural sensibilities to his work, in the first case, specifically referencing the western iteration of hyper-realism, and in the second, the ancient eastern art of the brush. His painting seems to mirror a contemporary Korean preoccupation with a kind of cultural accommodation, where a modern society is a synthesis of the past and the present and where cultural differences are reconciled. We might see his paintings as hybrids, examples of such a process. Read more -
Choi Soowhan
Complex Emptiness 10 Oct - 3 Nov 2019 In a virtuoso display of painstaking craftsmanship, Korean artist Choi Soowhan devises compelling three-dimensional images of plants, waterfalls, waves and landscape. These monochromatic pieces, with their dramatically-contrasting, ink-dark shadows and dazzling pinpoints of light, convey a brooding intensity. His evocations of the natural world express its complexity, abundance and variety. The artist invites us to consider growth, change and flux. Read more -
Do Sungwook
Supernatural 10 Oct - 3 Nov 2019 An experienced painter with an extensive curriculum vitae, this is Do Sungwook's first exhibition with Pontone Gallery. He employs a traditional method of representational oil painting, concerned to convey an illusion of reality. Some are large-scale pieces, a few are in horizontally-arranged, ‘triptych’ format. Read more -
Yigal Ozeri
Insistently Real 6 Sep - 6 Oct 2019 Yigal Ozeri’s work articulates the attractions of the transient fragility of the human form. His painstaking practice translates it into something immanently ‘real’, preserving a record of that which passes too quickly. Read more -
Fabio Bianco
Theatre of Light 9 Aug - 1 Sep 2019 Pontone Gallery is proud to present, for the first time in the UK, an exhibition of paintings by Italian artist Fabio Bianco. A native of Venice, he graduated from the prestigious Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia in 1995. Since then he has shown his exuberantly- colourful paintings in galleries and museums all over the world. Read more -
Matteo Massagrande
A Grand Tour 9 Aug - 1 Sep 2019 Matteo Massagrande’s new paintings feature his characteristic use of subtly-manipulated perspective. His is a world of mysterious vistas and abandoned interiors, filled with light and atmosphere. There is a new emphasis on specific sites and landscapes, particularly Venice, New York and Tuscany. This exhibition has something of the flavour of a modern- day ‘Grand Tour’. Untypically, in a few works, figures are present. An urban crowd populates the meticulously-defined cityscapes of Venice and New York, distinctly ephemeral against the lucid solidity of the architecture. Read more -
Mari Kim
Immortal Beloved 12 Jul - 4 Aug 2019 South Korean artist Mari Kim returns to Pontone Gallery with a new series of her distinctive 'Eyedoll' works.
Her images derive from a rich mixture of Western and Eastern cultural references. After training as an animator in Australia, Kim moved back to Korea to embark on a career as a successful video director. This is where she developed her signature ‘Eyedoll’ characters. These remarkable figures became the protagonists of her evolving painting projects. Read more -
Cha Jongrye
Mysterious Topographies 12 Jul - 4 Aug 2019 Pontone Gallery is delighted to exhibit works by acclaimed Korean artist Cha Jongrye. Exhibited worldwide, this solo show will be Cha's first with Pontone Gallery, presenting an exciting showcase of her innovative sculpture. Read more -
Christopher Thompson
Studies, Part II 7 Jun - 7 Jul 2019 Christopher Thompson continues his investigation into the intimate, discrete scenario in this new series of small paintings. These portraits are character studies, some of which quote art historical precedents, referencing artists such as Vermeer and Velázquez. Alone and self contained, the protagonists appear in a closed and contemplative state, selfabsorbed and caught at a moment of pause and possible reflection. Read more -
Emil Alzamora
Expanded Present 7 Jun - 7 Jul 2019 Emil Alzamora’s minimalist sculptures represent the human body in its purest form. His figures are often depicted as though captured in a state of suspended animation influenced by both internal and external forces. Anonymous yet identifiable, they symbolize a universal understanding of a connection with the human body in its various manifestations. Read more -
Malcolm Liepke
Dream of Me 10 May - 1 Jun 2019 Pontone Gallery is excited to present this much-anticipated exhibition of new paintings by acclaimed American artist, Malcolm Liepke. Above all, a painter of the body, he works with a cast of distinctively attractive models to make images of languorous and sensual appeal. His graphically accomplished and bravura handling of paint and colour express this world, making allusive reference to icons of popular culture, the pin-up and the shiny surfaces of the mediated image, which are often undisguised sources of inspiration for his compositions. Read more -
Alyssa Monks
Hybrid 10 May - 1 Jun 2019 New York based painter Alyssa Monks presents us with two types of image. One is of a modern-day dryad: a kind of hybrid, the naked female form overlaid with leaves and foliage, integrated into a vegetal world. The other is of the body fragmented and distorted by steam and water, glimpsed through a screen clouded by veils of vapour and mist. Her subjects are altered by their environment and exist in an elemental world of shifting perceptions. Read more -
Lee Jaehyo
The Spirit in the Material 12 Apr - 5 May 2019 Pontone Gallery presents new work by the distinguished Korean sculptor, Lee Jaehyo. This prize-winning artist’s work features in many prestigious private and museum collections. He brings his craftsmanship to bear on the matter of the forest and the forge to conjure sensuous monumental objects. Read more -
Kim Bumsu
Sacred Cinema 12 Apr - 5 May 2019 Pontone Gallery is proud to present, for the first time in the UK, an exhibition by South Korean artist Kim Bumsu. Trained in his homeland and the United States, his work has been extensively shown in the Far East and Europe. This is an exclusive opportunity to experience his idiosyncratic and intriguing mixed-media constructions. Read more -
Davina Jackson
Close to the Sun 15 Mar - 7 Apr 2019 London born artist, Davina Jackson, attended Central St. Martins and Byam Shaw art schools before being awarded a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from The Royal Academy School of Art in 1997. Since then she has had many exhibitions, most notably at the Pontone Gallery, Albemarle Gallery, Boundary Gallery and The Discerning Eye exhibition at The Mall Galleries. This is a unique opportunity to view a comprehensive solo show of new works. Read more -
From Miami to London
10 Jan - 3 Feb 2019 After another outstanding year at Art Miami 2018, Pontone Gallery is delighted to present a further opportunity to enjoy works by our artists who achieved such great success there.
In January we will present a Miami to London collection in the gallery and online, including works by Emil Alzamora, Hwang Seontae, Mari Kim, Lee Leenam, Malcolm Liepke, Matteo Massagrande and Jeff Robb. Read more -
Matteo Massagrande
The Essence of Light and Silence 23 Nov 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 Matteo Massagrande, a native of Padua, has become both an outstanding contemporary Italian painter, and a seminal artist of the figurative, representational movement in European painting. His works are exhibited together with the art of such masters as Lopez Garcia, David Hockney and Vincent van Gogh. Read more -
Christopher Thompson
Studies, Part I 23 Nov 2018 - 6 Jan 2019 Christopher Thompson, an English artist, was born in Grimsby in 1969 and studied at the Royal Academy. Since graduating he has exhibited extensively at home and abroad, his work featuring in many private and public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery in London. Read more -
Hwang Seontae
Light, Time & Space 4 Oct - 4 Nov 2018 Pontone Gallery is proud to welcome back Korean artist, Hwang Seontae, with an exhibition of his most recent light boxes. Beautifully constructed from tempered, sandblasted glass and aluminium, they are printed with precisely rendered images of contemporary, domestic interiors. These scenes are articulated and brought to life by LED lighting, which evokes sunlight playing across the spaces. They are as carefully lit as stage sets. Read more -
Lee Leenam
Re-Animator 4 Oct - 4 Nov 2018 Pontone Gallery is excited to present this exhibition of new digital pieces by the acclaimed Korean artist, Leenam Lee. Read more -
Rado Kirov
The Mercury Effect 18 May - 17 Jun 2018 Rado Kirov's sculpture consists of wall-mounted reliefs and free-standing sculptures, all fabricated from stainless steel with highly polished surfaces. Some are geometric, some explicitly furniture-like, others are beads and droplets of formless matter; still more are glistening, reflective panels expressive of flowing landscapes. A new development are reliefs that reference the sensuous surfaces of the human body. The various pieces are subtly shaped by hand to yield complex, undulating forms from hard metal. Read more -
Dina Brodsky
Cycling Guide to Lilliput 2 Feb - 4 Mar 2018 Dina Brodsky makes small, circular paintings on copper discs of carefully observed and recorded landscapes. Hers is a classical technique, deploying skilful handling of colour, tone and texture to describe specific location, time of day, weather and atmosphere. The paintings are produced in series and document particular journeys: long-distance ones which the artist makes on bicycle. Read more -
Lee Jeongwoong
Laputa : The Fall 2 Feb - 4 Mar 2018 Korean artist, Lee Jeongwoong, was born in 1982 in Seoul. He graduated from Sungkyungkwan University in 2008, after which he exhibited extensively at home and abroad. He had a solo exhibition with Shine Artists in 2015, where he showed paintings on the subject of ‘Laputa’. Several pieces developing the theme were shown in 2016 at the newly opened Pontone Gallery. We are now delighted to present ‘Laputa, The Fall’, a solo exhibition of his latest work. Read more -
Malcolm Liepke
Altered States 3 - 26 Nov 2017 American artist, Malcolm Liepke was born in 1953 and raised in Minneapolis. He is an experienced, mid-career painter who has exhibited all over the world; his work is represented in numerous private and public collections. Continuing a fruitful professional relationship, Pontone Gallery is proud to present his new paintings, which further investigate and articulate his sensuous images of male and female models. Read more -
Korean Masters
6 - 29 Oct 2017 Bae Joonsung | Lee Jinyong | Lee Jaeyho | Lee Jinyong | Lee Jungwoong
Pontone Gallery is delighted to present a group show of five celebrated Korean artists working at the peak of their creativity. All have impressive CVs detailing numerous international exhibitions, awards and representation in private and museum collections. Read more -
Lee Jinyong
The Weight of Thought 30 Jun - 23 Jul 2017 Jinyong Lee is an award-winning, mid-career, Korean artist with an impressive cv of solo and group exhibitions. He has shown extensively in Korea and the United States, where his work is featured in many public and private collections. He has not, as yet, been seen in the UK. The Pontone Gallery is therefore delighted to represent him with his first, exclusive, solo exhibition in London. Read more -
Lee Jeonglok
Parallel Worlds: Tree of Life & Nabi 30 Jun - 23 Jul 2017 Lee Jeonglok is an established Korean artist, represented in many international collections, with an extensive, world-wide record of solo and group exhibitions. He has shown frequently with the Pontone Gallery and we are pleased to showcase these new and exclusive works. Read more -
Hong Sungchul
Solid But Fluid 17 Mar - 16 Apr 2017 Born in 1969 in South Korea, Hong Sungchul completed an M.F.A and B.F.A in sculpture at Hongik University in Seoul before finishing another M.F.A in Integrated Media at California Institute of the Arts in the US. Since graduating he has exhibited many times in the Far East, the USA and Europe and his work features in several international collections. The Pontone Gallery presents his latest pieces in an exclusive show at their new space in Chelsea. Read more -
Lee Jaehyo
Nature Bound 20 Jan - 25 Feb 2017 Lee Jaehyo is a Korean sculptor who has exhibited extensively in his homeland and in Europe. He has shown regularly at the Albemarle Gallery in London and now makes his debut at their new space, The Pontone Gallery. Read more -
Hwang Seontae
Between Light and Space 25 Nov - 24 Dec 2016 Hwang Seontae was born in South Korea in 1972. He studied fine art at Kyunghee University in South Korea and went on to train in Sculpture at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle in Germany, where he completed his postgraduate study, specialising in Glass Art. He has exhibited in South Korea, the USA and Europe, showing numerous times in the UK, where he is exclusively represented by The Pontone Gallery. Read more -
Christopher Thompson
New Works 30 Sep - 23 Oct 2016 Christopher Thompson's technically accomplished paintings derive from an interest in the portrait and particularly what might be termed ‘the urban portrait’. Solitary figures, predominantly male, are often situated in sparsely rendered urban spaces. Their form is dramatically revealed by artificial light; the resultant ‘chiaroscuro’ effect lends a brooding, emotional intensity to the scene. Read more -
Matto Massagrande
Selected works from the Kogart Museum, Tihany, Hungary 30 Sep - 23 Oct 2016 Born in 1959 in Padua, Italy, Matteo Massagrande is a painter steeped in the history and tradition of figurative representation. He has been exhibiting his work since 1973, and has shown extensively around the world, his paintings featuring in many public and private collections. Read more -
Mari Kim
Days of Future Past 1 - 25 Sep 2016 Mari Kim is a Korean artist who uses the language of Manga, Disney and Pop-Art to make her glossily realised paintings. Her images derive from a rich mixture of Western and Eastern cultural references. She produces pieces which explicitly reflect a pop sensibility and aesthetic back at her audience. Read more -
Lee Jeonglok
Nabi 28 Jul - 21 Aug 2016 Lee Jeonglok is a Korean artist who uses photography to create and record his world. He makes mysterious and evocative images of strange and magical events. These happen in carefully chosen, personally significant landscapes, realised by a thorough mastery of photographic technique. Read more -
Malcolm Liepke
Studies in Emotion 28 Jul - 21 Aug 2016 Malcolm Liepke is a painter primarily of women, especially of a certain kind, who appear to be glamorous inhabitants of the film, stage and fashion world. Versed in the art of performance and self-projection, they are used to being looked at and return the viewers’ gaze sometimes provocatively, with insolence or innocently. Read more -
Oh Seyeol
The Layers of Memory 1 - 24 Jul 2016 The directors of The Pontone Gallery are proud to present the first solo exhibition in the UK by this South Korean artist of international standing. Known as a ‘master painter’ in his homeland and represented in many museum collections, this is a unique opportunity to view Oh Seyeol's subtle, densely codified paintings. Read more
