[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is artist Cecily Brown. Cecily Brown (b. 1969) is a British painter whose work juxtaposes abstraction and figuration. The artist is broadly inspired by the history of painting, taking influence from painters from the canon of art such as Goya, Willem de Kooning, Francis Bacon and Rubens. Cecily Brown...
PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is Lucy Gough. Lucy Gough is an artist and illustrator who works predominantly in print and photography. Gough graduated from Norwich School of Art and Design in 2002 and now lives and works in London. Gough’s prints use simple graphic lines and bold colour blocks to form a coherent...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is PopUp Painting team member Karine Gullino. Karine Gullino is a French artist based in London. The artist works across a variety of media, including sculpture, installation, painting and photography. Materiality is an important aspect of the artist’s work, allowing materials to respond to each individual artwork. The artist...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is Keith Haring. Keith Haring (b. 1958) is an American artist and social activist, whose work responded to New York City street culture. The artist was known for his bold lines, vivid colors, and active figures that carried strong messages of life and unity. Haring’s career started out by...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is Rana Bagum. Rana Bagum is a Bangladeshi-British sculptor who works across a variety of media. The artist is heavily influenced by minimalism and constructivism, and thus much of her work is focused on the formal elements of the materials she uses. Bagum’s abstract sculptures and reliefs capture a...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is Canadian artist Charles Pachter. Charles Pachter (b. 1942) works in a variety of media including painting, printmaking, sculpture and drawing. The artist works in a graphic, bold style that echoes Pop Art. The artists uses popular icons as subject matter for his work. Much of the imaginary used...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is Austrian artist Erwin Wurm. Erwin Wurm is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses drawing, video, photography, performance and sculpture in his practice. The artist is known for pushing the conventional boundaries of sculpture by creating work that focuses on the premise that sculpture is purely based on mass and...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is Malika Favre. Malika Favre is a French artist based in London. The artist creates figurative works that employ the use of bold colours, in a stylised graphic manner. Favre’s works often play with positive and negative space, where the works become momentarily optically confusing in a similar fashion...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is Thierry Noir. Thierry Noir (b.1958), or ‘Noir’ as the artist is often known, is a French street artist based in Berlin. The artist has a distinctive style, using bold, stylised lines filled with bright colours to depict cartoon-like profiles. This strong emphasis on line aims to simplify forms to...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]PopUp Painting’s ‘artist of the week’ is British artist Hurvin Anderson. Hurvin Anderson (b. 1965) is a Birmingham-born painter, whose work straddles figuration and abstraction. The artist studied at the Royal College of Art. Much of Anderson’s work evokes sensations of being caught between one place and another, drawn from the artist’s personal experience of...
