ARTIST: Nancy Cadogan, Jenya Datsko, Alice Herbst, Hope Turnbull, Serpil Mavi Ustun, Olivia Valentine
Gillian Jason Gallery presented ‘Face to Face II’, the second iteration of their November 2022 group show. The exhibition is part of the campaign ‘Portrait Mode’, launched by the National Portrait Gallery to mark their 2023 reopening, involving collaborations with art-world players across the UK and internationally.
Artist: Alice Herbst – Herbst’s artworks seamlessly blend abstract elements with realism, creating unique fusion that captivates viewers. By exploring the interplay between reality and imagination.
Artist: Jenya Datsko – Her works captures moments of loneliness and melancholy that at the same time radiate a mysterious and fascinating beauty. Through a soft colour palette and the recurring presence of female figures in various spaces
Artist: Serpil Mavi Ustun – Mavi Ustun’s paintings explore the loneliness of the individual in daily life trying to shape it to suit the norms of contemporary society. Through her picturesque scenarios of daily life the artist confronts us with the personal stories of her fragile, perturbed, melancholic heroes and heroines, who try to fight back against their bleak existential condition.
Artist: Olivia Valentine – Valentine shows appreciation of the elegance and subtlety of the female form. In any portrait painting, she focuses on capturing the light, fluidity and character of the subject, as well as the chemistry between the artist and the model.
Artist: Alice Herbst – Herbst’s artworks seamlessly blend abstract elements with realism, creating unique fusion that captivates viewers. By exploring the interplay between reality and imagination.
Artist: Hope Turnbull – “I want the viewer to enter the space without barriers. As such, I use the home as grounding; when we see a bed, we think of sleeping, and when we see a dining table, we think of eating. I hope this allows a viewer to become immersed in the work and see themselves as the figure in their own space.
Artist: Nancy Cadogan – Of her art, Cadogan states: “the artworks are about how I respond emotionally to the place I live, how my mind collects images, how I analyse or ruminate on my response, then turn to painting for resolution”
“FACE TO FACE II”.
