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Doris Day, Suzy Symphonies, Happy Harmonies, acrylic on canvas, 2011
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Doris Day, Suzy Symphonies, Happy Harmonies, 2011
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Jack Duplock, One Thousand Mirrors, Installation View, 2011
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Jack Duplock, One Thousand Mirrors, Installation View, 2011
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Doris Day,Suzy Symphonies, Happy Harmonies, Gallery 1
Jack Duplock, One Thousand Mirrors , Gallery 2
April/ May 2011
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Doris Day, Suzy Symphonies, Happy Harmonies
The Agency is pleased to present the first solo show of the British artist Doris Day. His departure point for abstraction is modernist source material. Using traditional techniques of cubist style abstraction he then proceeds to cross the boundaries back onto figuration and layering in the style of a collagist, which give his paintings an intriguing density. He is presented with a body of work in progress, encompassing abstract patterns, drawings with collage elements as well as two new studies from his latest series examining Francis Bacon's 'Screaming Pope".
Doris Day, graduated in drawing at Wimbledon School of Art in 2006. He has had solo shows at Warwick University 2008, the renowned ON/OFF Fashion and creative showcase at the Royal Academy 2009, a group show at Departure gallery and Cartel gallery with Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom in 2010.
Jack Duplock, One Thousand Mirrors
The Agency is pleased to present One Thousand Mirrors, a new series of paintings and objects by British artist Jack Duplock. Smaller scale than previous paintings these works continue to delve into Duplock's typical language of B-movie stills, Sixties and Seventies classics embedded in slightly surreal landscapes. Duplock's latest work is painted on brushed aluminium, giving the colours an iridescent quality. The paintings are embedded in black backing frames, but not hung symmetrically. They become colourful objects and their contents iconic and covetable. Playing with the hedonistic contents and the ritualistic display Duplock adds shamanistic wall based amulets made from haberdashery and found objects and sticklike leaning sculptures covered in glitter, false jewels and brightly coloured ribbons to the paintings. Duplock's play on alchemy and folklore is reminiscent of early Jim Dine, but also of the re-iteration of popular culture and comic strip graphics in the Nineties. One Thousand Mirrors in Gallery 2 is a preparatory show for a larger solo show in 2012.
Jack Duplock lives and works in London. He has shown internationally, often in the context of installation, sculpture and new media works. He has had solo shows in New York, Monterey, Mexico and London as well as group show inclusions internationally, notably 'The Valley', Bloomberg Space, 2005, 'Soul Stripper', Projet Midi, Brussles 2008 and 'Grand National', Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway 2010 with a/o Glenn Brown, Dryden Goodwin, Cornelia Parker, BANK, Derek Jarman and more.
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