Start Your Collection

3 August - 16 September
Contemporary Art Projects
20 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, London EC2A 3DU

This exhibition of small works has the aim of getting people to start or add to their collection with affordable works. The majority of the works are small and a large proportion of drawings. The thing I like about these kinds of exhibitions as they are a like a mini survey of emerging artist and a large percentage of them exploring drawing. What I don't generally like about these exhibitions is the way that the work is displayed. Several works were placed in see through plastic wallets which protected them from mucky fingered viewers but totally interfered with the reading of the work. I could go on a rant here but I will stop and start talking about what I found and liked. If i had a big house and lots of money I would start my collection with the following;

Lucinda Oestreicher [Drawing of a donkey - sad and lumpy]

Keith Roberts [rough landscapes - nighttime - cut out of cardboard - inky melancholy]

Claire Beale [cut out radiator interior - empty furniture absences in everyday space]

D. J. Roberts [Non spaces in photographs, like Vija Celmins but the bits in between - photorealism that throws you back to the surface and the transitions in tone - hard pencil - previously exhibited at Lounge - favourite one was 'urban darkness' 2006 street crime seemed to be hiding in this one but filled all the space - creeping]


Robin Dixon
[colour field - watercolour bleeding + grids and lines]

Anka Dabrowska

Laura Green
[liked the pen and ink big space slightly sci-fi drawings]

If you do have lots of money and a big house you should go and buy work by these artists.