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Chris Rivers
The Zodiac Universe (Pre-Release) 8 May - 5 Jul 2025 Pontone Gallery is delighted to present a new collection of zodiac-inspired prints by British artist Chris Rivers. Like the stardust from which we came, this celestial body of work is a rare opportunity to own a piece of the astrological universe that is truly yours. Read more -
Matteo Massagrande
In Dialogue with Stanley Spencer 6 Jun - 5 Jul 2025 Pontone Gallery is proud to present a new body of work by acclaimed Italian painter Matteo Massagrande, on view at its London gallery from 6 June to 5 July 2025. This highly anticipated collection features seventeen new paintings inspired by the visionary world of British artist Sir Stanley Spencer. Read more -
Into the Light
New Talent at the Livery 6 Jun - 5 Jul 2025 The Painter-Stainers’ Livery Company and Pontone Gallery are delighted to introduce ‘Into the Light’, an exhibition of painting and sculpture from newly-joined members of this ancient and prestigious organisation. Read more
Forthcoming
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Sarah Muirhead
8 - 30 Aug 2025 A graduate of Edinburgh School of Art, Sarah Muirhead is a technically-accomplished, figurative artist whose practice is rooted in forensic attention to detail. She paints and also makes drawings in a variety of graphic media. Her primary subject is the decorated and adorned human body. In addition, she produces arresting images of apocalyptic, dystopian landscape. Read more -
Henry Jabbour
5 Sep - 4 Oct 2025 Born in Beirut, Henry Jabbour graduated from New York Academy of Art in 2015 where he obtained a Master of Fine Art in Painting and Printmaking. His paintings focus on the human figure, exploring the emotive qualities of the body through colour and mark making. Read more
Past
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Richard Harrison
Between Flesh and Forest - Extended 10 Apr - 31 May 2025 Richard Harrison was born in Liverpool in 1954. He read Medieval History at Cambridge University and then received BA and MA Fine Art degrees in Painting from Chelsea School of Art. The critic Brian Sewell was an early champion of Harrison's work. He recognised its committed, insistent nature and described the artist as 'a visionary prophet' and his paintings as 'big, bold, beautiful and threatening'. Read more -
Claudia Doring Baez
The Ecstasy and the Agony: Claudia Baez Ruminates on Bob Carlos Clarke 10 Apr - 3 May 2025 Born in Mexico City, Claudia Doring Baez is a New York City based painter. Claudia Doring Baez’s paintings are animated by a reverence for art history and literature, rendered in a contemporary, expressionistic vocabulary. Baez engages in conversations with the work of some of the great artists from the past centuries that she resonates with — she selects, re-creates, and adopts details from images to create her own language. Baez’s work is steeped with references that range from German Expressionism to Marcel Proust, Brassaï, the rich renditions of Titian to abstracted versions of the work of Fra Angelico and Johannes Vermeer along with inspirations from contemporary artists such as Cindy Sherman. Read more -
Shifting Focus: Female Painters & Sculptors 2025
A Group Exhibition 7 Mar - 5 Apr 2025 Open throughout March, Pontone Gallery will showcase selected pieces across painting and sculpture by our female artists spanning the UK, the US, and Asia. Read more -
The Glow of Life
A Group Exhibition 6 Mar - 5 Apr 2025 The Glow of Life brings together the work of Lee Jeonglok, Timothy Spall, Jarek Puzcel, and Tonis Saadoja—four artists who explore the interaction between natural and artificial light across land, sea, and sky. Read more -
The Quiet Within
A Group Exhibition 16 Jan - 15 Feb 2025 Pontone Gallery introduces an ensemble show for 2025, featuring a roster of international and home-grown talent, whose practices range across painting, works on paper and sculpture. Read more -
Chris Rivers at Arlo Wynwood
Cosmos 4 Dec 2024 - 28 Feb 2025 Pontone Gallery is delighted to present Cosmos by British artist Chris Rivers at Arlo, Wynwood. This series features exuberant works in which the artist utilises the materiality of paint to create images of otherworldly expanses and environments. Read more -
Iain Faulkner
A Man Alone... 20 Nov 2024 - 11 Jan 2025 Pontone Gallery is proud to present a new suite of works by Scottish figurative painter, Iain Faulkner. These images feature his trademark, solitary, male figure set in dramatic and picturesque landscape - in this case Alpine Italy, specifically Lake Como and Lago di Braies. On the shore, looking out over the water, stands Faulkner’s protagonist, typically alone, brooding on a picturesque and sublime vista. In their staging such compositions make overt reference to romantic landscape painter, Casper David Friedrich’s iconic 1818 masterpiece ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog’. Faulkner’s contemporary iteration of an existential hero in contemplation of nature is implicit and points to a similarly romantic desire to re-establish this archetypal character and locate him in the present day.
Faulkner’s technique is an accomplished and painstaking masterclass in pictorial representation where attention is equally given to all aspects of the scene. There are no areas that are vague, all that is seen is dealt with and fully articulated. This clarity of view is achieved by his rigorous control and analytical application of tonal and colour values. This, in turn, is allied to a formal and exacting draughtsmanship that defines an exhaustive structural framework that forms the bare bones of each carefully thought-out arrangement. The artist’s desire to make the real and the tangible drives his vision so that we are in no doubt about the nature of the picture he is painting and his intentions in doing so.
The man in the paintings is, of course, the artist. These are self-portraits, but somewhat humble and self-effacing, as we do not see his face. Always dressed in the same clothes – a snow-white shirt, black trousers and braces, stout shoes – Faulkner comes across as an ‘everyman’, certainly not ‘bohemian’ as many would depict themselves. We join him in his view of the world, he asks us to stand with him and look over his shoulder to see what he sees and to share his wonder. Read more -
Massimo Giannoni
Simulacrum 17 Oct - 17 Nov 2024 Italian painter Massimo Giannoni paints pictures of collections of books, systematically arranged for display, reference and consumption in bookshops and libraries. They are representations of singular spaces, designed for thoughtful consultation and communion with a world of ideas, entertainment and information. These images describe the structural underpinnings of civilisation, a physical and architectural space to contain the life of the mind.
Giannoni deploys a lively palette. His handling is loose and deft. He builds up layers and accretions of thickly-applied paint over a carefully-drafted underpainting of the perspective plan of his chosen location. Stacks, files and piles of books fill the serried ranks of regularly ordered bookcases. The scene is described by streaks, patches and clusters of multi-coloured impasto. This rich and busy surface articulates a visceral delight in the materiality of paint, which, in turn, brings to mind the tactile excitement anticipated in the touch and feel of much sought after manuscripts and documents.
The painter evokes a particular quality of light. He illuminates his spaces with a suffused and soft glow, whether emanating from the sun shining through a window or artificial sources like lamps and chandeliers. Such subtly modulated lighting gives these interiors a sanctified aspect reminiscent of the clerestory and the church and points to associated qualities of lucidity and enlightenment. Giannoni makes a play for some sense of equivalence in experience between the bookshop and the sanctuary.
The artist presents us with a simulacrum, replacing reality with its representations. Here are the painted signs of books, unreadable but transformed into a comprehensible image that encompasses the idea of the written and what it, in turn, signifies. We are asked to make a connection – with the library of ideas in all its multitude of guises, in all its multitude of languages and its awesome, sublime confusion, ours to attempt to decipher. Read more -
Rado Kirov
Artist Feature 17 Oct - 17 Nov 2024 Kirov's sculptures are more than just objects; they are living, breathing entities that seem to defy the laws of physics. With their fluid forms, reflective surfaces, and intricate details, these pieces invite viewers to contemplate the boundaries between the natural and the artificial, the organic and the mechanical. From geometric... Read more -
Luciano Ventrone
Echi d’eternità 17 Oct 2024 - 11 Jan 2025 Ventrone's pursuit of artistic excellence , which he claimed to be innate and unwavering from childhood, was marked by a relentless dedication to pictorial representation. Influenced by Escher and science fiction imagery, he meditatively arranged and rendered his subjects transforming them into works of art that were both visually stunning... Read more -
Chris Rivers
Universal 20 Aug - 12 Oct 2024 Pontone Gallery is proud to present a new exhibition by British painter, Chris Rivers. ‘Universal’ consists of a suite of sixteen paintings, four of which are of the elements: earth, fire, water and air; and twelve depict the individual signs of the zodiac. The artist presents us with his compendium of the cosmos, each image a whirlpool of sumptuous colour, fluid gesture and corporeal paint.
Rivers is, above all, a virtuoso manipulator of his medium and takes endless pleasure in its materiality. He strokes and sweeps oil paint to make roiling slicks of opaque colour play against shiny, glassy glazes. Turbid skins and crusts of caked impasto catch the eye and set up illusions of depth in the picture plane. Clusters of marks, spread and brushed out against grainy washes of broken earth hues, allude to elemental incidents, explosions and eruptions in the vastness of space. The colour palette asserts itself in a frenzy of cerulean blues, cool violets, rich madder-reds and blushing crimsons. New to his technique is the introduction of metal leaf - copper, silver, gold and platinum laid into the background or strewn in patches across the surface, glinting and gleaming in evocation of the celestial skyscape.
The zodiac often appears as a theme in medieval and early Renaissance art. Rivers references this occult fascination and echoes its desire to make order out of elemental complexity. The coherent, story-telling structure and sequence of the Zodiac works as a mechanism to counteract and accommodate the numinous and sublime terror of what appears to be the infinite chaos of space.
Rivers’ immersive and beautiful sequence of paintings assimilates the constellations and their essential constituents. His is a creative process that pulls apart and reassembles, modifies and transmits with the stroke of a brush to explore the artist’s signature themes of transformation and transcendence. Read more -
Turbulent Materiality
11 Jul - 12 Oct 2024 This summer Pontone Gallery mounts an exhibition of painters who are all obsessed with the materiality of their medium, which they each manipulate with a distinct and intense singularity.
Malcolm Liepke’s paintings assert his skilful and graphic iterations of human flesh in all its forensic intimacy. His gestural and fluent handling emphasises the delicate, bruised tones of his male and female models, framed by a bright and acidic variety of rich colour.
Timothy Spall elicits a profound spiritual response with a dark and brooding landscape that contains a discrete, but explicit, description of the crucifixion at Golgotha. Misty veils of charcoal greys are penetrated by shafts of sulphurous sunlight to reveal a tragic scene, glimpsed from afar but unmistakable.
Richard Harrison deploys vigorous and expressive passages of highly worked paint. Clots, clumps, streaks and sticky accretions are distressed and agitated by the artist’s urgent hand, eager to fashion an image of primal landscape from a chaos of turbid material.
Henry Jabbour explores a rich and sumptuous palette of shimmering primary hues. Glistening oil paint is freely applied in thick, creamy skeins and slicks against saturated, liquid glazes. Vestigial romantic figures hover in this world of subtle, painterly abstraction. Read more -
Madeleine Gross
Paradise 5 Jun - 10 Aug 2024 One of Gross's recurrent and signature motifs is that of a nude couple embracing. They are placed against different versions of a picturesque sunset in a composition that pays more than a passing nod to cinematic melodrama. The artist, however, subverts the cliché by the vigour and rawness of the... Read more -
Heather Horton
Naiad 5 Jun - 10 Aug 2024 The painter sets herself a daunting task in expressing the multiple reflections and modifications of form brought about by immersion. She paints with great subtlety, paying painstaking attention to the optical effects of the medium; describing the variegated shimmer of pattern made by sunlight shining through the rippling surface of... Read more -
Lost Summer Skies
Kristi Kongi & Tõnis Saadoja 3 May - 6 Jul 2024 Kristi Kongi makes paintings and site-specific installations. Her work is rooted in a formal exploration of light, colour and space, initiated by her memories and experiences of significant landscapes and their emotional associations. The artist's original encounter with place and atmosphere is translated into a modified visual code for us... Read more -
Luciano Ventrone
Opera Pittorica 15 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 Born in 1942 in Rome into a humble background, he showed an interest in art from a very early age. He later claimed such a vocation to be innate and that his path was set and unwavering from childhood. At eighteen he embarked on his art training at the Liceo... Read more -
Philip Muñoz
Of Land, Sea and Sky 15 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 Muñoz works in oil on panel. His technique is cooly analytical and follows the descriptive tradition of representational painting. In certain passages, where a relaxed focus is appropriate, he allows the mark of the brush and its occasional gestural flourish to assert itself. We see this in the treatment of... Read more -
Malcolm Liepke
The Twilight Salon 15 Feb - 8 Mar 2024 Liepke's technique is loose and fluent. The paint is briskly applied in sweeps and clusters of gestural marks which describe the form and contour of flesh and clothing. The application is economical, but always subtle and sensitive to nuance and the essential physical attributes of a variety of surfaces, most... Read more -
Rado Kirov
Mercurial Echoes 11 Jan - 10 Mar 2024 Kirov is a craftsman with a profound understanding of his chosen material. Using dynamic processes of hammering, heating and polishing, he transforms the hard and rectilinear metal into sleek, smooth and streamlined forms, whose rippling planes and surfaces suggest the undulating wave forms of the natural world. These sculptures are... Read more -
Timothy Spall
Winter Sun 18 Nov 2023 - 10 Feb 2024 Spall sticks close to his motif, describing what is seen with a painstaking, analytical eye. He uses a subdued palette, with a tonal emphasis, which serves to describe the effect of light. A favourite theme is roiling, boiling skies that show the sun’s rays bursting through banks of stormy cloud,... Read more -
Chris Rivers
Featured Works | Expendable Youth 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Chris Rivers deploys his trademark gestural urgency and expressive handling to describe a world of jeopardy and turmoil. ‘Expendable Youth’ is a direct reference to the sombre consequences of the Great War. The paintings feature masked and mounted soldiers rendered in a swirling, misty impasto of clotted and crusty paint.... Read more -
Tim Wright
Featured Works | Cast 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Tim Wright ’s ‘Cast’ introduces a sequence of male and female characters. Engaged in various levels of activity from the contemplative to the vigorous, they operate as emblematic types drawn from some unknown story. They act out roles and allude to scenarios which blend the classical and historical with the... Read more -
Angela Glajcar
Vital Materiality 13 Oct - 12 Nov 2023 Paper is a material steeped in historic cultural association. An age-old technology, in its artisanal, fine-art iteration, it is virtually unchanged in its method of production. Familiar to the scribes of ancient China and the Middle East, the ink masters of Japan and Korea and the watercolourists of the Enlightenment,... Read more -
Jarek Puczel
Into the Unknown 12 Sep - 8 Oct 2023 Puczel employs a spare, graphic technique, which renders contour and silhouette clear and forceful. Tonal values are pushed to extremes to deliver high levels of contrast, which makes for an atmosphere of brooding intensity. His colour palette is highly controlled and economically distributed against cool blue-greys and twilight blacks. In... Read more -
Surbhhi K Modi
Woven Stories 12 Sep - 8 Oct 2023 Each tapestry features an image of an intricately decorated vase or vases. Traditionally Asian in shape and style, they picture dragons sinuously stretched across their notional porcelain surfaces. A variety of twisting and variegated plant forms are applied, and the resulting multi- coloured collage is laid onto a grid pattern.... Read more -
Sarah Muirhead
Sign Upon Sign 19 Jul - 20 Aug 2023 Muirhead’s compositions are densely packed and intensely busy. Her subjects are artfully posed, their limbs arranged in angular and sinuous combinations, which suggest a Klimt-like eroticism. The body is pushed close up to the picture plane, cinematically cropped for dramatic effect. The models are, for the most part, heavily tattooed... Read more -
Jinseon Chon
Looking Glass World 19 Jul - 20 Aug 2023 Chon’s interventions subvert the mirror’s function and purpose: its coherence is interrupted, and our perception is altered. He intimates a new arena of activity that is disclosed by an act of taking away, erasure becomes creative and results in addition and enhancement. To look into the glass is to view... Read more -
Henry Jabbour
A Certain Rest 30 Jun - 20 Aug 2023 Jabbour is, above all, a colourist. He deploys his palette for maximal optical effect. Free from the academic demands of observed representation, he explores a full range of spectral opportunity. This artist delights in the combinations and contrasts of burnt oranges, flaming reds, cool cerulean blues, acid greens, citrus yellows... Read more -
Chris Rivers
Portal 25 May - 16 Jul 2023 Rivers is an artist dedicated to exploring and exploiting the pictorial possibilities generated by the physicality of his painting process: saturated washes of vibrant colour develop into lowering skyscapes; clots and accretions of impastoed oil turn into mountain ranges; scattered and scumbled paint fields become the detritus of volcanic explosions;... Read more -
Yigal Ozeri
London Stories 11 May - 4 Jun 2023 Ozeri’s compositions reference the casual snapshot, the artful arrangements of editorial photography and the apparent randomness of ‘cinema verité’. People and objects are cropped, partly obscured and fragmented to deliver an impression of fast-moving, undifferentiated urban life. Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is deliberate, carefully chosen and meticulously edited image-making.... Read more -
Yigal Ozeri
Americana & Other Stories 11 May - 4 Jun 2023 Ozeri is a painter in the photorealist tradition, who makes images that record the subject ‘as seen,’ unfiltered by expressive or impressionistic handling. He is interested in a cooly-observed veracity, where the meticulous observation of optical detail makes for a picture of certain, concrete presence. The chosen subject is captured... Read more -
Matteo Massagrande
Luci della Grecia: Light of Greece 3 Apr - 7 May 2023 This painter’s superlative representational technique is evident in his deft handling, comprehensive understanding of colour and, above all, a remarkable ability to accurately define values of light and shade. His scenes are meticulously constructed. Built over a solid framework of line and contour that defines the three-dimensional space, they are... Read more -
A New Home
2 Mar - 30 Apr 2023 This exhibition marks the occasion with a selection drawn from the gallery’s extensive list of international artists, including many previously exclusive to The Albemarle Gallery. The presentation focusses particularly on painting and features established artists alongside newer talents. With an emphasis on figuration, the viewer is invited to experience a... Read more -
Through the Mind’s Eye: an Anthology
9 Feb - 26 Mar 2023 Massimo Giannoni is a painter of books and, in particular, a multitude of books that are housed in specific libraries, stores and collections. These are painted in a colourful, representational idiom that records their singular architectural settings to build a compendium of significant sites. Giannoni’s forensic enquiry emphasises the historical... Read more -
Iain Faulkner
Voyager 15 Dec 2022 - 26 Feb 2023 Faulkner deploys his trademark skill and assured fluency of technique in making these images. He describes the play of light across sea, forest and land; the spume, spray and mist of turbulent water; the subtly-various textures of cloth, polished wood and chrome. His is a painstaking and thorough approach, where... Read more -
Viewing Room
Art Miami Collection 2022 24 Nov 2022 - 29 Jan 2023 Korean sculptor Hwang Seontae makes lightboxes. Constructed from etched glass and concealed LED lighting, these are meticulously crafted images of still contemplation which depict contemporary, domestic interiors. Malcolm Liepke , an American artist, is a painter of a particular world, a 'demi-monde', inhabited by mostly young and attractive subjects, who... Read more -
Malcolm Liepke
Do You See Me? 28 Oct - 20 Nov 2022 Liepke works with a cast of characters, young models who act out world weary and self-absorbed scenarios. On occasion they challenge the viewers ’ gaze, staring back as if to say “ well ... and? ” . There is an erotic charge to much of this provocation. Some pictures are... Read more -
Fahamu Pecou
Return of the King 29 Sep - 23 Oct 2022 These arresting images are derived from wide-ranging source material taken from the iconography of hip hop, street fashion and ethnographic research. He is particularly interested in investigating and questioning the stereotypes and assumptions that surround the representation of the black, male body. The pictures are worked up with a variety... Read more -
Jarek Puczel
Face Value 29 Sep - 23 Oct 2022 Puczel's subject is the figure, particularly the head. His compositions typically feature a couple, male and female, engaged in an intimate embrace. A romantic and idealised moment is rendered in a coolly dispassionate style. His technique is graphic and crisp; the colour and tone flat, the draughtsmanship precise. The models... Read more -
Jeong Woojae
Afterglow 1 - 25 Sep 2022 Woojae is a representational painter of great skill. He deploys hue, tone and texture with a discerning and accurate eye. The fish themselves are masterpieces of animated nature-study. Entirely convincing in their pictorial veracity, they glisten with sparkling iridescence and rich jewel-like colour. The girl is rendered with sensitive and... Read more -
Henry Jabbour
Saturation Point 21 Jul - 28 Aug 2022 His figures are schematic and cursive studies of human interaction and tenderness. Although recognisable, they are fragile and hard to pin down. Located in vestigial landscapes, their images hover on the edge of disintegration. Lost and then revealed in the turbulent surface, they are on the verge of being assimilated... Read more -
Kyle Barnes
Second Skin 21 Jul - 28 Aug 2022 Painted in a carefully-rendered representational manner, the materiality of the coatings is sumptuously expressed and recorded. The smooth flow and wandering contour of its topography acts as a feature-hugging landscape laid over the familiar anatomy of the human head. Some paintings have the subject in a cowl of white fluidity,... Read more -
Philip Muñoz
To the Horizon 28 Jun - 17 Jul 2022 He paints the elemental components of water, land and sky. They are compassed by an ever-present horizon, the fundamental hinge for composition; a divider between ‘here’ and ‘there’. The locations are seen from aerial perspective, that is, from a somewhat elevated viewpoint, which emphasises distance, both material and metaphorical. In... Read more -
Choi Soowhan
A Positive Absence 4 Jun - 17 Jul 2022 Pontone Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new work by critically-acclaimed Korean artist, Choi Soowhan. He makes lightboxes depicting mysterious, atmospheric landscapes and flower arrangements. Read more -
Rado Kirov
Quicksilver 4 Jun - 17 Jul 2022 Pontone Gallery is delighted to present a new collection of free-standing and wall-based steel sculptures by the renowned Bulgarian sculptor Rado Kirov. Read more -
Malcolm Liepke
Young Americans 31 May - 31 Jul 2022 Pontone Gallery presents an online opportunity to view an exclusive collection of Malcolm Liepke’s works, which includes five brand new paintings. Read more -
Reef Hsu
A Forest Seen From Space 29 Apr - 29 May 2022 The exhibition divides into two areas of practice: the figurative and the abstract. The drawings are graphic depictions of natural forms and animals, juxtaposed in tightly-wrought and crowded compositions. Hsu's paintings are schemas of diffuse pastel, colour articulated by a subtly-textured paint film. The studies of nature's super-abundance, teeming with... Read more -
J Louis
Silhouette 29 Apr - 29 May 2022 For J Louis the silhouette is all. It is the dynamic driver of the composition. Isolated against the picture plane, which is absent of any reference or context, the figures inhabit an aesthetic void, a clear space in which the viewer's attention is fully focused on the body and force... Read more -
EXPO LONDON
1 - 24 Apr 2022 Matteo Massagrande is a critically acclaimed Italian painter. He creates images of atmospheric architectural vistas and emotionally significant landscapes. Steeped in the classical tradition, he brings a great depth of art historical reference to his work. Second to none in his skilful use of representational technique, his pictures conjure up... Read more -
Unseen Beat Scene
4 - 27 Mar 2022 Paul Heartfield, the curator of this exhibition, is a renowned editorial photographer. Specializing particularly in musicians, he has produced iconic images of performers such as Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, and John Lydon. London-based for most of his career, he has recently moved to Findhorn, a small village in Scotland, which is... Read more -
Richard Harrison
A Painter's Progress 4 - 27 Mar 2022 The viewer’s eye is dazzled by volcanic eruptions of elemental colour. Harrison’s palette is highly registered; primary and secondary hues dominate, making for strong contrasts and rich combinations. This lends a hallucinatory quality to each scene. The contours of land and sky are graphically outlined in broadly gestural schemas. The... Read more -
Pontone & Albemarle Group Show
4 - 26 Feb 2022 Acclaimed Scottish painter, Iain Faulkner , continues his enquiry into the expressive potential of the solitary male figure. Whether located in a luxurious international hotel room or the rugged landscape of his native Scotland, his technically-accomplished compositions evoke a sense of contained isolation and brooding introspection. Born in Beirut and... Read more -
Chris Rivers
Odyssey 10 Dec 2021 - 30 Jan 2022 Each ‘Angels are Astronauts’ picture references a particular planet of the solar system, as well as the Sun. The scenes are swirling vortices of turbid colour, allusive to the popularly- perceived characteristics of each subject: for example, Mars, Jupiter and the Sun are hot- hued, Earth watery and Mercury darkly... Read more -
Introducing | Fahamu Pecou
12 Nov - 19 Dec 2021 Pontone Gallery is delighted to present a collection of paintings and photographs by Atlanta-based artist Fahamu Pecou. In his artwork, Pecou raises questions about the images and representations that inform contemporary readings and performances of Black male masculinity. By engaging with various stereotypes and misconceptions about Black men, both those... Read more -
Matteo Massagrande
The Mine and the Trees 5 Nov - 5 Dec 2021 Massagrande combs Van Gogh’s correspondence for descriptions of landscape that resonate with his own emotional response to place. Vincent’s are forensically pictorial, describing qualities of light and colour and the specific nature and appearance of trees, flowers and topography. Massagrande finds equivalents in his own archive of personally significant motif.... Read more -
Hwang Seontae
The Power of Light 5 Nov - 5 Dec 2021 Both in their content and their method of construction the pictures emphasise the articulating power of light. In the case of the images, it is ‘natural’ and therefore of the sun. Seontae’s comfortable oases can only be experienced by its action. It nurtures the man-made aspirations of the architecture. The... Read more -
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 -
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 -
Luciano Ventrone
In Memoriam 30 Jul - 26 Sep 2021 Born in 1942, Luciano Ventrone had a long and distinguished career, the outcome of a prodigious talent and a determined and painstaking commitment to its development. Collected worldwide, with an international reputation, he was, at heart, a thoroughly Italian painter. His practice was steeped in the spirit of classicism and... 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 -
The Albemarle Gallery
Opening Exhibition 15 Apr - 16 May 2021 Northern Irish painter Kyle Barnes creates highly accomplished figurative portraits, capturing intimate moments that feel distinctly raw and undistilled. We encounter his subjects through a painterly lens that does not mask blemishes, but focuses upon them, holding them up to the light to be inspected and celebrated. Marks and gestures... 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 -
Iain Faulkner
A Solitary Man 15 Oct 2020 - 10 Jan 2021 These are not melodramatic poses, but everyday and almost mundane. The subject is caught at a point of rest and contemplation. He gazes out across the land or city-scape, he looks down at his shoes, he nurses a whisky glass. We very rarely glimpse his face, for he is consistently... 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 -
Kyle Barnes
17 Sep - 11 Oct 2020 Born in 1986, Kyle Barnes grew up in Cookstown, Northern Ireland. He graduated in Fine and Applied Arts from The University of Ulster, Belfast. Today his work is represented in numerous private and public collections including the National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.... Read more -
Ron Hicks
17 Sep - 11 Oct 2020 The focus is the head, a fixed point around which the material of the painting is orchestrated. The body is often less detailed, more loosely sketched, subtly indicated by clusters, patches and scumbles of mark and colour. The surface is fragmentary and abstracted, punctuated by stainings, smudges and traces that... 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 -
Joung Young-Ju
The Living City 8 Jun - 5 Jul 2020 Born in 1970, Young-Ju spent her youth drawing the buildings in her village before leaving South Korea to study Fine Art in Paris. After graduating, she returned home where she climbed Nam Mountain and saw the downtown of Seoul, lit at dusk. While her paintings are rooted in such experiences,... Read more -
Alfredo Roldan
The Rituals of Relaxation 8 Jun - 5 Jul 2020 Albemarle Gallery presents a new series of paintings by acclaimed Spanish artist Alfredo Roldan. These works are sophisticated exercises in sumptuous colour and subtle tonalities. Rich passages of reds, blues and greens are played off against muted, earthy shades and ochre flesh tints. The flattened perspectives, fractured surfaces and graphic... Read more
