Peter Lamb
dal 27/10/2006 al 1/12/2006
Segnalato da
27/10/2006
Peter Lamb
Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles
The Art of Dickies and Pollocks. Solo exhibition. Lamb transcribes an immediate raw state to paper or canvas and then edits by subtraction and addition, moving collage pieces around, over-painting and drawing, translating work from one medium to another.
The Art of Dickies and Pollocks
Kontainer is please to announce the first solo exhibition by London based
Peter Lamb.
Peter Lamb tries not to think too much. He transcribes an immediate raw
state to paper or canvas and then edits by subtraction and addition,
moving collage pieces around, over-painting and drawing, translating work
from one medium to another. It’s a very physical process. What he ends up
with is a junk pile of marks, motifs and images, the tangled bundle of an
emotional state spread across a variety of surfaces - paper, canvas,
di-bond and sculptures.
Lamb talks about his method as a trawl through personal history and
memory, seeing what the day’s catch might yield. It also throws up bits of
art history. You couldn’t call these quotations, more ‘found’ images: the
odds and ends, the broken bits, art’s refuse; artist as rag and bone man,
art as eschatology. It’s a form of pastiche in which Lamb cobbles together
borrowed finery, which every so often resolves into something. A Tal R
hotchpotch of imagery there, an ugly Albert Oehlen smear here, Rene
Daniels bow tie, a Rauschenberg wash, Kippenberger, the Ab-Ex’s…. Besides
his hommages to the late-, and not so late-greats, Lamb’s work also
dresses up in second-hand rags from his peer-group in London’s East End:
Phillip Allen, Katie Pratt, Danny Rolph, a bit of Boo…
Opening Reception Saturday 28 October
Kontainer Gallery
944 Chung King Road - Los Angeles