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Losing The Image: An exhibition of new works by Karolina Albricht.

Past exhibition
10 September - 19 October 2024
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Karolina Albricht, '15 Steps Behind', 2023, oil on panel, 30cm x 24cm. Image courtesy of Benjamin Deakin..
Karolina Albricht, '15 Steps Behind', 2023, oil on panel, 30cm x 24cm. Image courtesy of Benjamin Deakin..

JGM Gallery presents Losing The Image, an exhibition of works by London-based artist, Karolina Albricht.

 

Taking its title from Phyllida Barlow's words, Albricht’s second solo exhibition at JGM Gallery encourages its audience to consider paintings as spatial environments, which both evade definition and illicit novel interpretations on each viewing. In Barlow’s case, the phrase, 'losing the image', refers to the particular way in which the viewer experiences a three-dimensional object as they move around it. For Albricht this also opens up an enquiry into what an image means and what is its relationship to the world. This enquiry, as well as the paintings in the exhibition, is informed by her interest in Eastern Orthodox icon paintings, alongside her recent residency in rural Norfolk and the way it reaffirmed Albricht’s relationship to nature. Losing The Image traces her shifts in pictorial thinking, the image being progressively questioned and rephrased.

 

For Albricht, as a painter, absolute distinctions surrounding object and image become blurred. The surfaces of her works often accumulate thick layers of paint of varying tonalities. Others emerge through subtle glazes. Regardless of how the mark is made, the paintings seem to exist not only pictorially but also three-dimensionally. Interested in the body, its movement, and the space it occupies, Albricht transfers these relationships into a pictorial field. As such, the materiality of the surface becomes an experience - an event - both for the artist and viewer, which recalls the idiosyncrasies of the hand that made it.

 

In many of the smaller works from this exhibition, compositional elements extend beyond the confines of the surface and its border. These protrusions further challenge the definition of ‘the painted image’, instead recalling practices reminiscent of sculpture or collage. Offering varying perspectives from which they can be viewed and functioning simultaneously as both object and painting, Albricht’s works present us with a multiplicity of readings. The ambiguity of the surface challenges the urge of mimetic imperative: Albricht deconstructs form into shifting fields of colour, light and space, which meet with an angled precision and introduce a certain geometry. Yet, rather than possessing the geometrical severity of minimalism, the rhythmic nature of the marks, the fluidity of the paint and organic extensions of the picture plane, diffuse any sense of graphic regularity.

 

Central to the attraction of Albricht's work, in the words of Jennifer Guerrini-Maraldi (JGM Gallery's Director), is "... an aesthetic and stylistic originality that distinguishes Karolina as an artist of great courage and daring."

 

Opening Reception: 

 

Tuesday, 10 September, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

24 Howie Street, 

London SW11 4AY

 

For further information, press enquiries, or to RSVP, please contact the gallery at info@jgmgallery.com.

 

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Selected Works
  • Karolina Albricht Single Interval of a Fourth, 2023 Oil on panel 30cm x 24cm
    Karolina Albricht
    Single Interval of a Fourth, 2023
    Oil on panel
    30cm x 24cm
  • Karolina Albricht Steps Behind, 2023 Oil on panel 30cm x 24cm
    Karolina Albricht
    Steps Behind, 2023
    Oil on panel
    30cm x 24cm
  • Karolina Albricht 7 Years Bad Luck, 2022-23 Oil on jute 220cm x 180cm
    Karolina Albricht
    7 Years Bad Luck, 2022-23
    Oil on jute
    220cm x 180cm
  • Karolina Albricht Ear To Mouth, 2022 Oil and other stuff on panel 18cm x 14cm
    Karolina Albricht
    Ear To Mouth, 2022
    Oil and other stuff on panel
    18cm x 14cm
  • Karolina Albricht Head and Arms that Touched Thunder, 2024 Oil and string on jute 220cm x 180cm
    Karolina Albricht
    Head and Arms that Touched Thunder, 2024
    Oil and string on jute
    220cm x 180cm
  • Karolina Albricht As a Mist Magnifies the Moon (J.E.), 2024 Oil on panel 18cm x 14cm
    Karolina Albricht
    As a Mist Magnifies the Moon (J.E.), 2024
    Oil on panel
    18cm x 14cm
  • Karolina Albricht The Sea was the Crosswords, 2024 Oil and bamboo sticks on panel 18cm x 14cm
    Karolina Albricht
    The Sea was the Crosswords, 2024
    Oil and bamboo sticks on panel
    18cm x 14cm
  • Karolina Albricht Head & Arms That Touched Thunder, 2024 Oil on panel 30cm x 24cm
    Karolina Albricht
    Head & Arms That Touched Thunder, 2024
    Oil on panel
    30cm x 24cm
  • Karolina Albricht Time is a Passing of a Shadow, 2024 Oil on jute on panel 23cm x 16cm
    Karolina Albricht
    Time is a Passing of a Shadow, 2024
    Oil on jute on panel
    23cm x 16cm
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