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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 Pontone Gallery is proud to present a captivating exhibition of six works by Bulgarian artist Rado Kirov. Through years of experimentation and technical perfecting, Kirov has developed a unique process he calls 'the mercury effect.' By combining manual techniques with precise temperature control, he creates a shimmering, undulating surface that... 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 American artist, Madeleine Gross, makes her singular and distinctive pictures by painting onto her own original photographs. Idyllic images of sunset Ontario lakes and gleaming Miami beaches are overlaid with expressively painted naked figures and gestural brush marks. The aesthetic contrast between the smooth, machine-made surface of the photographic background... Read more -
Heather Horton
Naiad 5 Jun - 10 Aug 2024 Heather Horton takes us into a submerged water-world of refracted light through which a young woman swims, floats and glides. Our viewpoint is also underwater; we too inhabit this amniotic space. We are invited to experience and witness the sensory perceptions of this contemporary iteration of a naiad – the... Read more -
Lost Summer Skies
Kristi Kongi & Tõnis Saadoja 3 May - 6 Jul 2024 Pontone Gallery is excited to present an inaugural exhibition by Estonian artists, Kristi Kongi and Tõnis Saadoja. Mid-career and with prestigious curriculum vitae, they are academic colleagues at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Both are painters but work in distinct ways that are quite different from each other. For this... Read more -
Luciano Ventrone
Opera Pittorica 15 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 Italian master, Luciano Ventrone, had a long and successful career. His professional activity spanned six decades - he was exhibiting paintings from 1956 until 2021. His legacy is a remarkable body of figurative painting, which articulates and investigates the nature of pictorial representation, its perception and interpretation. Read more -
Philip Muñoz
Of Land, Sea and Sky 15 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 Pontone Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new landscape paintings by Philip Muñoz. His subject is the English West Country, particularly Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. He concentrates on coastal scenes where the three elements of land, sea and sky come together. These skilful studies of topography and climate... Read more -
Malcolm Liepke
The Twilight Salon 15 Feb - 8 Mar 2024 Pontone Gallery is excited to announce an exhibition of new paintings by critically-acclaimed American painter, Malcolm Liepke. This series continues his exploration of the male and female figure, clothed and unclothed, alone and, on occasion, in intimate groups. His major concerns are to express the personality of his sitters and... Read more -
Rado Kirov
Mercurial Echoes 11 Jan - 10 Mar 2024 Pontone Gallery is excited to host a new exhibition of works by Bulgarian artist, Rado Kirov, who brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the art of metal fabrication. Stainless steel sheets are welded and shaped to make free-standing sculptures and wall- mounted reliefs which are sited indoors and... Read more -
Timothy Spall
Winter Sun 18 Nov 2023 - 10 Feb 2024 Pontone Gallery is proud to present Timothy Spall’s exhibition of new paintings. These atmospheric and sometimes surreal landscapes record scenes selected en passant from a peripatetic working life, where the artist is on the move and seldom still. Spall puts together an anthology of disparate places which have all caught... Read more -
Chris Rivers
Featured Works | Expendable Youth 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Read more -
Tim Wright
Featured Works | Cast 18 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Read more -
Angela Glajcar
Vital Materiality 13 Oct - 12 Nov 2023 Pontone Gallery is delighted to announce a solo show by German artist, Angela Glajcar, who sculpts in paper. By the processes of tearing, layering and puncturing, she transforms an ostensibly mundane and undifferentiated sheet material into complex structures that enclose, define and reveal hermetic and allusive three-dimensional spaces. The artist... Read more -
Jarek Puczel
Into the Unknown 12 Sep - 8 Oct 2023 Pontone Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of new works by Polish artist, Jarek Puczel. He paints images of enigmatic and solitary female figures in lyrical and romantic settings, mostly landscapes. Dramatically composed and artfully cropped, his pictures evoke the dynamic visual language of film. We are invited to... Read more -
Surbhhi K Modi
Woven Stories 12 Sep - 8 Oct 2023 Pontone Gallery is excited to announce an exclusive exhibition of new pieces by Surbhhi K Modi, an Indian artist who divides her time between Delhi and London. An international exhibitor and curator, she has a particular interest in promoting the societal benefits of public art. Modi's practice ranges across sculpture,... Read more -
Sarah Muirhead
Sign Upon Sign 19 Jul - 20 Aug 2023 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... Read more -
Jinseon Chon
Looking Glass World 19 Jul - 20 Aug 2023 Korean artist, Jinseon Chon, a recent graduate of the Royal College of Art, uses mirror glass to make artworks. He scratches away areas of the backing to make complex and elegant patterns and clusters of abstract drawing that vary from the geometric to the gestural. These diagrammatic figures hover on... Read more -
Henry Jabbour
A Certain Rest 30 Jun - 20 Aug 2023 To celebrate Henry Jabbour's first solo exhibition in our partner gallery Friedrichs Pontone in New York, Pontone Gallery is delighted to announce A Certain Rest in London. Henry Jabbour welcomes us to a richly coloured world of pastoral reverie and lyrical contemplation. These evocative paintings contain images of small and... Read more -
Chris Rivers
Portal 25 May - 16 Jul 2023 To celebrate Chris Rivers' first solo exhibiton in our partner gallery Friedrichs Pontone in New York, Pontone Gallery is delighted to announce Portal in London. This is a series of large-scale, exuberant works in which the artist deploys the materiality of paint to make images of otherworldly, stellar landscape. These... Read more -
Yigal Ozeri
London Stories 11 May - 4 Jun 2023 Pontone Gallery is excited to present a new series of paintings of London by the New York-based artist, Yigal Ozeri. These hyperreal, figurative pictures document contemporary street life. Already established as a critically acclaimed and commercially successful painter of the female figure, Ozeri has latterly switched his focus to a... Read more -
Yigal Ozeri
Americana & Other Stories 11 May - 4 Jun 2023 [Online Exclusive] Acclaimed New York painter, Yigal Ozeri, presents us with his expertly-rendered paintings of the American diner and a selection of beautiful women. The first is a contemporary take on an archetypal and familiar scenario; the second, a celebration of a glamorous aesthetic set in an Arcadian landscape, which... Read more -
Matteo Massagrande
Luci della Grecia: Light of Greece 3 Apr - 7 May 2023 Pontone Gallery is proud to present a new sequence of paintings by the critically-acclaimed, Italian artist, Matteo Massagrande. These pictures explore vistas of sun-bleached, Greek architecture that disclose fragmented views of Mediterranean land, sea and sky. Painted in a cool, blue-tinted palette, they are masterful evocations of a particularly atmospheric... Read more -
A New Home
2 Mar - 30 Apr 2023 Pontone Gallery is delighted to announce the assimilation of its long-standing partner, and predecessor, The Albemarle Gallery. This will bring a wide variety of distinguished artists under one roof and make for more effective promotion of such a wealth of creative talent. Read more -
Through the Mind’s Eye: an Anthology
9 Feb - 26 Mar 2023 Pontone Gallery presents a portfolio exhibition of four gallery artists, who demonstrate a variety of approaches to contemporary figurative painting and sculpture, both in theme and technique. Read more -
Iain Faulkner
Voyager 15 Dec 2022 - 26 Feb 2023 Albemarle Gallery is excited to announce a new solo show by the acclaimed Scottish painter Iain Faulkner. Iain Faulkner ’ s enquiry into the male image continues with a suite of new paintings which locate his subject in dramatic Scottish landscape. These scenes are set on and around water. Faulkner... Read more -
Viewing Room
Art Miami Collection 2022 24 Nov 2022 - 29 Jan 2023 This winter Pontone Gallery exhibits at the prestigious Art Miami fair. The gallery showcases a selection of its international artists, who range across the fields of painting, lightbox and sculpture. Common to all is a deep immersion in and mastery of their chosen practice. From 24th November until 11th December... Read more -
Malcolm Liepke
Do You See Me? 28 Oct - 20 Nov 2022 Malcolm Liepke ’ s new paintings pulse with life, full of coruscating colour, dramatic composition and seductive evocations of the body. The entire focus and centre of attention is the figure. His subjects are graphically expressed in confident, gestural brushwork that describes form in clots, smears and slicks of sticky,... Read more -
Fahamu Pecou
Return of the King 29 Sep - 23 Oct 2022 American multimedia artist Fahamu Pecou explores contemporary notions of blackness through painting, photography, mixed media, video and performance. Pontone Gallery is excited to announce an exhibition of a selection of Pecou's paintings and works on paper, seen for the first time in the UK. These arresting images are derived from... Read more -
Jarek Puczel
Face Value 29 Sep - 23 Oct 2022 Pontone Gallery is proud to introduce Polish painter Jarek Puczel. With a background in film and design, he found his vocation in painting and for the last fifteen years has worked prolifically, showing at many international art fairs and galleries. This is his first solo exhibition in the UK. Read more -
Jeong Woojae
Afterglow 1 - 25 Sep 2022 Korean artist, Jeong Woojae invites us to experience a surreal situation, where a young girl’s constant companion is a tropical fish. She goes about her everyday life against a backdrop of park, suburb and street accompanied by various sumptuous and over-scaled specimens, which seem perfectly at home in an alien... Read more -
Henry Jabbour
Saturation Point 21 Jul - 28 Aug 2022 Pontone Gallery is delighted to exhibit a new sequence of paintings by UK-based artist, Henry Jabbour. He paints figures, flowers and abstract studies in an expressively gestural style with an eye for rich and sumptuous colour. The surfaces of the paintings are a riot of. heavy impasto and glutinous agglomerations... Read more -
Kyle Barnes
Second Skin 21 Jul - 28 Aug 2022 Kyle Barnes paints portrait busts of a young woman whose head and shoulders have been coated in a creamy, viscous liquid, as if she has been dipped into a slick of some anointing oil. These images suggest the moment of a baptismal immersion. The resultant glistening carapace is a protective... Read more -
Philip Muñoz
To the Horizon 28 Jun - 17 Jul 2022 Albemarle Gallery presents ‘To the Horizon’, an exhibition of paintings by Philip Muñoz. This is a series of pictures that document specific English pastoral landscapes. Topographically accurate and forensically representational, they resonate with a sense of specific time and place. 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 Pontone Gallery is proud to present its first exhibition of Taiwanese painter, Reef Hsu, an experienced artist with an international reputation and award-winning pedigree. This is an exclusive opportunity to experience a fascinating body of work, which ranges from densely- packed and meticulous drawings to intense and atmospheric oil paintings. Read more -
J Louis
Silhouette 29 Apr - 29 May 2022 Albemarle Gallery is delighted to exhibit a new sequence of paintings by J Louis. He deploys a polished technique to paint portraits of young, beautiful women. His cast of characters throw dynamic shapes, posing like fashion models. Well-versed in the art of self-presentation, they offer themselves up to our gaze,... Read more -
EXPO LONDON
1 - 24 Apr 2022 This spring Pontone Gallery exhibits at the prestigious Expo Chicago art fair. The gallery showcases a selection of its international artists, who range across the fields of painting, photography and sculpture. Common to all is a deep immersion in and mastery of their chosen practice. These artists are concerned with... Read more -
Unseen Beat Scene
4 - 27 Mar 2022 A collection of original, never before seen pop culture photographs. Shot in 1964, these 35mm black and white negatives have been meticulously restored to reveal the youthful vibrancy of the early sixties British Beatscene. Read more -
Richard Harrison
A Painter's Progress 4 - 27 Mar 2022 Acclaimed English artist Richard Harrison returns to Albemarle Gallery with a new set of vibrant and expressive paintings. Dramatically rendered landscapes are articulated by bursts of turbulent abstraction that emphasise otherworldliness and their place in the realm of dream and imagination. In some pieces characters appear out of the welter... Read more -
Pontone & Albemarle Group Show
4 - 26 Feb 2022 Pontone Gallery and Albemarle Gallery are proud to present a selection of new paintings by Iain Faulkner, Henry Jabbour and Tim Wright. Read more -
Chris Rivers
Odyssey 10 Dec 2021 - 30 Jan 2022 Pontone Gallery is proud to present ‘Odyssey’ , a new suite of paintings by Chris Rivers. His signature-style is much in evidence, typified by emphatically gestural handling, a sumptuous colour palette and a dramatic evocation of pictorial space. The pictures are divided into two subsidiary themes: ‘Angels are Astronauts’ and... 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 Pontone Gallery is proud to present a new show of paintings by distinguished Italian painter Matteo Massagrande, inspired by Van Gogh and his letters to his brother Theo. Earlier this year they were exhibited at ‘ Attorno a Van Gogh ’ which ran alongside the major exhibition ‘ Van Gogh.... Read more -
Hwang Seontae
The Power of Light 5 Nov - 5 Dec 2021 Pontone Gallery is thrilled to present a new collection of lightboxes by Korean artist Hwang Seontae. Carefully crafted from sandblasted glass and discreet LED lamps, these works depict contemporary, domestic interiors. These calm and ordered scenes are lit by windows which frame views of natural landscape. In contrast to 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 Albemarle Gallery announces an exclusive, posthumous exhibition of paintings by the Italian master, Luciano Ventrone. This a solemn occasion for the gallery as it marks the end of a long and creative association. Sadly, Luciano Ventrone died in April this year. The core of this show are works that came... 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 To celebrate the opening of our new London gallery space on Newman Street, The Albemarle Gallery features a selection of paintings by Kyle Barnes, Iain Faulkner, Park Jieun and Christopher Thompson that present distinctly personal scenes, imbued with stillness, solitude and reflection. 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 Acclaimed 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. 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 Kyle Barnes creates highly accomplished figurative portraits. In this new series we encounter his subjects through a lens that does not mask blemishes, but focuses upon them, holding them up to the light to be inspected and celebrated. Painterly marks and gestures build to display exposed skin in its entirely... Read more -
Ron Hicks
17 Sep - 11 Oct 2020 Ohio-born Ron Hicks is a mid-career, American painter with a long string of exhibitions to his name. His subject is the figure and the medium is oil. His mature style exploits to the full the aesthetic pleasures of his technique. He relishes the possibilities and outcomes offered by emphatic handling,... 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 South Korean artist Joung Young-Ju paints unique cityscapes inspired by her native country. Softly lit at twilight, her works capture sprawling urban scenes that stretch beyond view, speckled with flickering lights that hint at a dense yet unseen human presence. 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 -
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 -
Jeong Woojae
Constant Companion 26 Mar - 7 Jun 2020 South Korean painter, Jeong Woojae's subject is a particular, surreal relationship: he makes pictures of a girl and her gigantic dog. These are photo-realistic paintings of the pair acting out scenarios of companionship in a contemporary, urban landscape. The compositions evoke disparate themes of isolation, protection and mutuality. 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 -
Cha Jongrye
27 Feb - 22 Mar 2020 Korean artist, Cha Jongrye, studied sculpture at Ehwa Women’s University, graduating with a BA and MA in 1996. She has accumulated an extensive curriculum vitae of solo and group exhibitions in Korea and the US. This sequence of new works is an impressive introduction to her obsession with her chosen... Read more -
Tim Wright | Inside the Eye
at Art Moorhouse 27 Jan - 4 Mar 2020 Albemarle Gallery, in collaboration with ArtMoorHouse, is pleased to present ‘Inside the Eye’, a comprehensive survey of recent work by London painter Tim Wright. This includes eight new, large-scale paintings and works on paper, and a selection of pieces from his two preceding exhibitions: Far-seeing Eye (2019) and Into the... Read more -
Park Jieun
Abstracted City 23 Jan - 22 Mar 2020 Park Jieun is a Korean artist who uses an intriguing combination of traditional and contemporary methods and materials. She superimposes painted images of modern cityscapes over expressive brushstrokes in ink, applied to Korean paper and decorated with gold leaf. The cityscapes are meticulously painted in acrylic and are a record... Read more -
J Louis
Subtle Fragments 23 Jan - 22 Mar 2020 The American artist J Louis is an accomplished painter of women. Their cropped and fragmentary images are strategically arranged to make dynamic and vibrant compositions. The subject is integrated into a formal schema of veils, skins and blocks of rich and subtle colour. The figure is described with a fluency... 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 -
The Albemarle Winter Show
8 Nov - 8 Dec 2019 The Albemarle Winter Show at Pontone Gallery. Albemarle is delighted to present an exhibition at Pontone Gallery showcasing exceptional talent from it's roster of internationally renowned artists. 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 -
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 -
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 -
Alfredo Roldan
A Goddess at my Table 7 - 30 Sep 2018 Spanish artist Alfredo Roldán was born in 1965. Self- taught, with no formal training, and determined to be an artist, he initially sold his work in street markets. By the mid 1990s, after winning several competitions, he came to the notice of art galleries in Europe and America, notably The... Read more -
Into the Deep
Tim Wright - Kate Tedman - Dolly Thompsett 17 Jun - 22 Jul 2018 We are proud to present a journey through the imagined worlds of three British artists. Tim Wright's portals and openings lead to Kate Tedman's musings on sign and symbol and then plunge into the fantastic tales of Dolly Thompsett. 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 -
Iain Faulkner
A Moment Alone 2 - 31 Dec 2017 Scottish artist Iain Faulkner graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1996 with a BA in Fine Art. He has had numerous solo shows in the UK, USA, France, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. His work appears in many private and corporate collections; in 2010 he was commissioned to paint the... 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 -
Michelle Doll
Tokens 1 Sep - 1 Oct 2017 American artist Michelle Doll pursued her art education with a BFA at Kent State University and then at The New York Academy of Art where she graduated ‘cum laude’ in 2006. Since then she has had a distinguished track record of exhibitions in America, especially, New York. She has shown... Read more -
Jamil Naqsh
and the eternal feminine 28 Jul - 27 Aug 2017 Jamil Naqsh's new series of images reaffirms his reputation as a master draughtsman, with a sidelong glance at established Western traditions to which he both does and doesn't belong. What he now offers are close-up portraits of beautiful young women, of a type familiar from the romantic dream world of... 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 -
Dolly Thompsett
A Thousand Years to Unpack 21 Apr - 21 May 2017 These new paintings by Dolly Thompsett are rooted in an intensely absorbed activity of image making. There is a sensuous concern to animate and transform the surface; to make it emotionally and intellectually evocative. Densely packed and layered narratives mix all kinds of personal and art historical references into a... 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 -
Bae Joonsung
The Costume of Painter - Still Life 28 Oct - 20 Nov 2016 Bae Joonsung deploys a sophisticated and complex process of image making. The artist’s subjects are carefully painted, then these paintings are photographed and combined into a ‘lenticular’ print, which allows another image to be revealed as the viewer changes their angle of vision. Important to this process is the ‘layering’... 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 -
Iain Faulkner
AM/PM 1 - 24 Jul 2016 Iain Faulkner's paintings are essentially self portraits, where, unusually, the subject is fugitive and mysterious. He remains concealed in plain sight, his back to us or turned away, an archetypal male figure, thoughtful and absorbed. What we see on first approaching these paintings is a particular and meticulous recording of... Read more
