Hello everyone.
Please come to the celebration party for my exhibition with Neil Ellis's Brilliant Neon at Cass Arts, this Thursday:
“NEON PINGS”
Cass Arts Islington Art Space, January 5th - February 4th 2017
Opening party January 12th, 6-8pm.
For
this exhibition at Cass Arts Islington store, 66-67 Colebrooke Row,
London, N1 8AB, interdisciplinary artist Joanna McCormick shows her
paintings alongside Neil Ellis's Brilliant Neon, to create an
installation that shines with vibrant colour and light.
The
show connects personal and political impulses and transgresses
boundaries to create an innovative and collaborative, bright and
evocative installation.
Vibrant
neon lights shine out with intricate, varied and vivid motifs that
dance across the walls. Sharing space with butterflies, sea monsters,
sailors and mermaids, elements that are painted in oil on canvas or
cardboard, and in watercolour on paper or card, with a bright palette
and a broad range of techniques, including free scumbling translucent
brushwork, blended strokes working wet into wet, handmade stencils and
impasto and intensely fine lined detail drawn in paint onto flat
colours.
The
anchor, the lobster, hearts, birds, words and rainbows. The works blend
and complement each other to create a unique and eclectic experience
for the viewer.
The
exhibition is an experiment with spatial variations, and sits between
disciplines. Exploring notions of materiality, repetition and how motifs
and themes relate and interact across formats.
And
in
the evening on Sunday January 29th I will be performing Moon Moon Sing
Sing at Vinyl Deptford, with a great line up of experimental noisenicks:
Here
are some photographs of the Cosmic Dogs and Spacestronaughts from my
most recent exhibition Space 2016, curated by Vanya Balogh:
Thanks to Phillip Raymond Goodman for the pics.
The big and very beautiful photographs behind my work are by the artist Stacie McCormick.
Best wishes for a happy and hearty 2017! - Joanna
