Keith Coventry, Grear Patterson
Donnerstag, 07. September 2017 - 20:00 Uhr
Galerie Kandlhofer
"Tabula Rasa"
Keith Coventry (b. 1958, Burnley, United Kingdom) was born in Burnley in 1958 and lives and works in London. He attended Brighton Polytechnic 1978- 81 and Chelsea School of Art London 1981- 82. He was featured in the seminal exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1997 and in 2006, he received a mid-career retrospective at Glasgow's Tramway (Art Centre). He was also a co-founder and curator of City Racing, an influential not-for-profit gallery in Kennington, South London from 1988-98.
His work has been exhibited widely in the UK and Europe and is included in collections worldwide, including the British Council; Tate Modern; Arts Council of England; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. In 2010 Coventry was awarded the John Moores Painting Prize. His work was included in Double Act: Art and Comedy, an exhibition presented at The MAC Belfast in May 2016.
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Grear Patterson
"Lucky Charm"
Grear Patterson (b. 1988, Redding, US) was born in Redding in 1988 and lives and works in New York. He attended the BFA School of Visual Arts New York. Recent exhibitions include "Stay Up" curated by Ugo Rondinone, 39 Great Jones Street New York; "Cereal Eater" Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland; "True Romance" Marlborough Contemporary, London, UK; "In The Trenches" Kostyal, Stockholm, Sweden.
Patterson´s works were included in following Group Exhibitions: "Protean Vessel (S)" Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland; "East of Eden" (with Yves Scherer), Jeanroch Dard, Brussels, Belgium; "Across 110th Street" Rod Bianco, Oslo, Norway.