Mark Davey

Naomi Doran

Kareem Lotfy

Micah Schippa

Private View: 17th May - 18.00 - 21.00
Exhibition Runs: 18th May - 01th June 2012
Artists Talks : 26th May - from 15.00

44 Emerald Street, (off Lambs Conduit Street), London WC1N 3LH

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Though this idea has existed in philosophy since the dawn of time, it only really crystallised in art with the advent of minimalism in the 1960s. Despite being quite a contentious moment in the history of art, Minimalism has maintained a grip on art production throughout the rest of the XXth century, and still underlies the work of artists such as Rachel Whiteread, Jeff Koons, Anish Kapoor and Damien Hirst. Such works reduce art to its minimum: solid, geometrical (standardly cubic) shapes which the viewer can understand, in Donald Judd’s words, as ‘things as a whole’ (rather than a combination of parts). Using ‘less’ as a strategy, artists like Judd and Carl Andre hoped to provide an entirely new dimension of the experience of their works. The viewing subject is placed in an entirely new position, where the ‘simple’ work speaks to them physically and intuitively rather than mentally. The ‘experience’ is thus cast back upon the here and now.

Camilla Emson: born in London in 1985. Lives and works in London.
Education:
2010-11 MA at City & Guilds of London School of Art
Foundation at Chelsea School of Art and Design
Diploma in Directing at the New York Film Academy
BAHons in Philosophy and International Relations at Sussex University
Foundation Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology

Mark Davey: born Bristol, 1985, Lives and works in London
Education:
2009-2011 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
2004-2008 BA Fine Art, The Slade School of Fine Art, London
2003-2004 Foundation Diploma in Fine Art, U.W.E, Bristol

Naomi Doran: born 1980, lives and works in London
Education:
2000-03 Interior Architecture, London Metropolitan University, UK
1998-99 Art & Design Foundation, Central Saint Martin, London, UK

Kareem Lotfy: born in 1985, Lives and works in Cairo, Egypt
Education:
2006- 09 Painting, Fine Art & Graphic design, University of Alexandria, Egypt

Micah Schippa: born in 1988 and a resident of Chicago, USA.
Statement “I am interested in translation between analog & digital, hand and machine.”

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