ARTIST: Riad aka “Gorilla Brigade” 01 02 03 04 05 06 ABOUT ME 4me4you features the artist Riad aka “Gorilla Brigade”. MY PROCESS What is the Gorilla Brigade? “A former identity. The name was cool so I kept it. I’m the only artist involved. It’s not a collective” – Gorilla Brigade”. Facebook-f Instagram Tumblr We discovered Gorilla Brigade’s pictures on INSTAGRAM
ARTIST: Derek Gores 01 02 03 04 05 06 ABOUT ME 4me4you features the artist Derek Gores. MY PROCESS Best known for lush collage portraits formed of recycled magazines and other paper, his work is an optical experience. From afar we see one image, and up close the image melts into poetic spaces, words and textures. Instagram Facebook Youtube “I
ARTIST: Dzikamai Nyahunzvi 01 02 03 04 05 06 ABOUT ME 4me4you visits Unit London Gallery which featured Option Dzikamai Nyahunzvi. “Kwatinobva Kunoyera (Sacred Origins)”. MY PROCESS The title of Nyahunzvi’s exhibition focuses on matters of spirituality central to his own Shona culture. The Shona people, hailing from Zimbabwe, are spiritual beings that revere the land they walk on, the
4Me4You Features – “Overlook”. ABOUT ME 4me4you visits Unit London Gallery which featured “Overlook”, by Seth Armstrong. MY PROCESS With a strong visual through line and a harmonious colour palette, the works displayed is made up entirely of landscapes and cityscapes that exclusively depict the artist’s native Los Angeles. Expanding on elements from real life, these works enhance the visual
ARTIST: John Wentz 01 02 03 04 05 06 ABOUT ME 4me4you visits Stolen Space Gallery which featured the artist John Wentz, – “LIMINAL SPACES”. MY PROCESS ‘Liminal Spaces’ is an exploration of transitional states and emotional displacement influenced by Western Religious iconography and The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Colours are saturated but carefully chosen and used minimally as
4Me4You Features – – ‘FOOLS!’. ABOUT ME 4me4you visits Stolen Space Gallery which featured the artist, Victor Castillo – ‘FOOLS!’. MY PROCESS Victor Castillo began drawing obsessively at the age of five, inspired by the animations he saw on television, science fiction movies, and the illustrations on record covers. ‘FOOLS!’ humorously imagines how the masses might be regarded by a
4Me4You Features – – “Mayfair Tennis Ball Exchange”. ABOUT ME 4me4you visits Stephen Friedman Gallery who presented David Shrigley’s – “Mayfair Tennis Ball Exchange”. MY PROCESS Visitors are invited to bring an old ball to swap with a new one from the numerous shelves that line the walls. Gradually the rows of yellow spheres are replaced with misshapen and discoloured
4Me4You Features – “THE POWER OF LIGHT”. ABOUT ME 4me4you visits Pontone Gallery which featured a new collection of lightboxes by Hwang Seontae: THE POWER OF LIGHT MY PROCESS Carefully crafted from sandblasted glass and discreet LED lamps, these works depict contemporary, domestic interiors These calm and ordered scenes are lit by windows which frame views of natural landscape. In
4Me4You Features – Matteo Massagrande. ABOUT ME 4me4you visits Pontone Gallery which featured the paintings by Matteo Massagrande. MY PROCESS A tension plays out in these outwardly calm and controlled images. The subject, a point in time and space, is elusive, constantly changing and sitting on the edge of perception. Massagrande’s careful rendering of his systematic and forensic observations makes
