UNDERGROUND on Broadway
July 1st - 15th, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, July 1st, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Underground on BROADWAY is a London built exhibition of young, emerging British talent showing at Broadway Gallery, New York this summer. Made up of nine artists’ work, the show is eclectic in both medium and specific subject, a collection of early inspiration, showing how these initial pieces play off one another in terms of style and raw imagination.
The opening will be an innovative interactive experience, with live web streaming back to England for those who couldn’t be in New York, and the opportunity to text and email the artists participating creating a trans-Atlantic perspective between two countries miles apart. Encouraged by Underground’s sister show Pop-Up NY, this is will be a unique opportunity to see two cities in visual dialogue, as the works, ranging widely in medium, will hang adjacent from one another. Documented constantly online, Underground on BROADWAY aims to manipulate all that modern communication can offer, and the climatic opening will be one not to be missed.
Often reliant on place and surrounding, Underground’s works are reactions to the world their artists find themselves in, visual expressions of situation and its currents of influence. What many of the artists were particularly taken with was the idea of their art traveling from its place of origin to be deliberately displayed in another environment, and the effect that this would have on both the art and viewers’ reactions to it. Adam Higman’s piece is a tampered counting ‘clicker’ encased in a perspex box. The counter holds the amount of clicks it took for the box, and the show itself, to travel from London to New York; it is a three dimensional illustration of traveled time enclosed in space. Leanne Elliott (RART) captures the dark, wet shining pavement between a Londoner’s legs; her photography, 120 Nights of Sodom, tells the tales of a city’s nightly underbelly. Sam Hodge takes its estates in broad daylight, framing for us a view across the street in Queens Road Peckham, South London. Sophie Duckworth’s Habliments are a conception of place. Coloured threads dripping with the purity of white wax and the decadence of gold, these are hanging memories of a heritage imagined, a past visualised in an ecclesiastical vision casting shadows on the wall.
Origin, of place, person and reaction, feature throughout the Underground on BROADWAY show. Only encouraged by one another’s varied approach, the show demonstrates how each individual artist pushes the boundaries of their visual exploration, through their mediums of installation, painting, drawing and photography.
ARTISTS
Ing Chua-Lee, Sophie Duckworth, Katie Elder, Leanne Elliott (RART), Adam Higman, Sam Hodge, Ita Maude Wooller (RART), Caitlin Montie Greer (RART), Tim Sargent
Alongside the exhibition, Underground on BROADWAY will be a show documented online, allowing both the artists, as well as viewers out of New York, to keep track of the show:
http://undergroundonbroadway.wordpress.com
Aiming to be as interactive as possible, check the website for information on all our artists, updates on the show’s progress, as well as for individuals’ reactions & feedback once we open.
Pop-Up NY
July 1st - 15th, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, July 1st, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Spontaneous and exciting, Pop-Up New York is a handful of the city’s young and emerging artists gathered to spring up next to Broadway Gallery’s London show Underground on BROADWAY.
Working in a range of mediums this group show is an array of visual reaction, with artists responding to their surrounding influences and situations. Reflective of New York, the show will run alongside Underground on BROADWAY providing an energy filled visual dialogue that will allow both shows to feed off one another.
Innovative in its approach, Underground on BROADWAY and Pop-Up New York will be an unique and interactive experience aiming to involve both the artists and viewers of each of its home towns. There will be filming, live web streams back to England, the opportunity to text artists not present at the opening, and an atmosphere lively with ideas and thoughts from two cities miles apart.
Not to be missed come to the OPENING PARTY on the 1st of July for a preview unlike any other.
ARTISTS
Scott Bluedorn, Darlin Frometa, Young Heller, Julian Lorber, Jungyeon Roh, Tory Sica, Skummi, Cameron Snow Plus more TBC.
