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    Louise Giovanelli

     

    Laura Lancaster

     

     
     
     

    The Armory Show 2020

    12th Avenue

    New York City

    Pier 90


    Focus section

    Booth F8

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    The Armory Show 2020

     

    Jamillah James, Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, curates the 2020 Focus section, devoted to solo and dual-artist presentations of today’s most relevant and compelling artwork. Projects in this section consider the ways in which artists construct a version of reality or self where the boundaries of fact and fiction are indistinct. Visitors will discover artworks that address notions

    of alternate and revisionist histories and challenges to received knowledge or truth 

     

    WORKPLACE presents two emerging women painters: Louise Giovanelli and Laura Lancaster. Both artists are concerned with the mediation and re-staging of found imagery to address complex issues relating to the image, its origin and multiplicity in a post-truth world.

     

     

  • ​Louise Giovanelli Louise Giovanelli makes intense, luminous paintings that refer both to art history and contemporary mechanics of viewing and...
    ​Louise Giovanelli

     

    Louise Giovanelli makes intense, luminous paintings that refer both to art history and contemporary mechanics of viewing and consuming imagery. Cropped and isolated images gleaned from historical painting are repeated and restated, dislocated from their origin and repositioned within a rhizomatic sequence of works. Giovanelli employs a layering technique to build works that simultaneously composite multiple modes of representation and painterly lexicons of flatness, translucence, abstraction and realism.

     

    Emphasised by underpainting revealed beneath and below the image; and finished with gestural glyph-like inscriptions on top of the illusionistic surface, Giovanelli’s works flit restlessly through a multiplicity of painterly strategies bringing together interruptions, false starts, and obfuscation into a corrupted yet beautiful polyphonic totality.

     

    Louise Giovanelli was born in London in 1993 and lives and works in Manchester UK. She completed her BA in Fine Art at Manchester School of Art in 2015, and is currently studying at Städelschule in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany.

  • Laura Lancaster Laura Lancaster makes paintings from found imagery, collected from anonymous analogue photographs and film. She transposes the lost...

    Laura Lancaster

     

    Laura Lancaster makes paintings from found imagery, collected from anonymous analogue photographs and film. She transposes the lost and discarded memories of strangers into an ambiguous territory between abstraction and figuration. Divorced from their specific context and time Lancaster relocates the image to a place of collective memory. Shifting between the sentimental and the grotesque, Lancaster’s paintings are uncanny and strange, dreamlike visions from a shared consciousness.

     

    Confronting a gendered history of painting, Lancaster draws upon a range of influences including the work of Francis Bacon, Willem DeKooning, Lovis Corinth, and James Ensor. Lancaster subverts the notion of authorial autonomy, allowing her work to become a conduit through which the lives of the lost and the nameless are connected with our own.

     

    Laura Lancaster was born in Hartlepool, UK in 1979. She lives in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.

    • Louise Giovanelli Untitled, 2020 Oil on canvas 45 x 35 cm
      Louise Giovanelli
      Untitled, 2020
      Oil on canvas
      45 x 35 cm
    • Laura Lancaster Nowhere, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 210 x 160 cm
      Laura Lancaster
      Nowhere, 2019
      Acrylic on canvas
      210 x 160 cm
  • WORKPLACE is a contemporary art gallery based in Gateshead in the North of England. Developing out of the artist-led scene...

    WORKPLACE is a contemporary art gallery based in Gateshead in the North of England.

     

    Developing out of the artist-led scene in northeast England, Paul Moss and Miles Thurlow opened their first gallery WORKPLACE in 2005 in Gateshead Town Centre: a small post-industrial town opposite Newcastle on the banks of the River Tyne.

     

    Located within the Brutalist architecture of Owen Luder’s ‘Trinity Square’, known locally as the ‘Get Carter Carpark’ due to its prominence in the 1971 cult movie starring Michael Caine, the gallery began to regularly take part in major international art fairs, and place its artists in important collections and exhibitions worldwide.

     

    From its Gateshead base the gallery has become the leading commercial contemporary art gallery located outside of London in England.

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