“Ann Kopka: Moving On Up Down Escalators”
Art Exhibition
Title: “Ann Kopka: Moving On Up Down
Escalators”
Artist: Ann
Kopka Curator: Ann Kopka
Venue:
Cavendish Conference Centre 22 Duchess Mews London W1G 9DT
Dates: 1
February – 27 May 2016
Viewing by
appointment only. To view contact Jenny Hullock 020 7706 7700
Free admission
Nearest underground station: Oxford Circus, Great
Portland Street
A solo art exhibition
of more than twenty vibrant acrylic paintings, at the award winning Cavendish
Conference Centre in central London, informed by Ann Kopka’s fascination
with the interaction of geometry, design and architecture in the urban
environment.
Ann Kopka’s paintings in essence lean towards abstraction although
deliberately hover between the representation of recognisable images and the
non-traditional formal repetition of shapes and structures prevalent in
abstract art. There is a visual emphasis
on exploring the relationships between structure and scale, colour and light,
repetition and pattern. And the processes of deconstructing and reconstructing
subject matter to articulate concepts of space produces images, which taken out
of their original context, verge towards a perception of abstraction.
Translating her own altered digital images on to large canvases
requires precise measurements and calculations, and is an intensive and time
consuming operation. The paintings ‘grow’ through the subtle application of
multiple layers of vivid acrylic colour. Colour is employed not to be
representational but to convey energy, emphasise the circulation of movement
and bind the network of structures together into a coherent picture. The slow
development of vibrant saturated surfaces results in paintings that have an
illusion of depth sometimes with distinctive three dimensional qualities
contradicting the defining flatness of abstract art and yet in art historical
terms allude to analytical cubism, constructivism, op-art and geometric
abstraction.
Ann Kopka studied Fine Art
at Central St Martins College of Art and Design and the City Lit. She has studied
The Practices and Debates of Modern Art and graduated with a First Class
Honours degree from The Open University. She has also studied Museum Curating
at Tate Modern. Ann has exhibited in London, the UK and USA. Her work is held
in private collections in France, Spain, UK, USA and Australia.
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