Gerhard Richter – Panorama Exhibition at Tate Modern 6th October 2011-8 January 2012 – Jenny Meehan WordPress Journal

Went to see the Gerhard Richter “Panorama” Exhibition at Tate Modern yesterday.  The painting which caused me the most excitement was “June”

http://www.gerhard-richter.com/art/search/detail.php?6506

I’ll be spending some more time looking at that one for sure.

I always come away from seeing large canvas’ somewhat frustrated that I don’t have more space to do my own paintings that size.  The biggest so far has been the Trafalgar mural at approximately 2 metres by 4,  painted with silicate mineral paint.  I’ve got a few more murals on walls here and there, and some on  large unstretched canvas.  But how nice to have something with more of an expanse.  To challenge oneself with.   In a few years with more of a studio space I’ll have the chance to work bigger.  Bigger certainly isn’t better, but I think it could be more exciting challenge-wise.

Enamel paint.  I haven’t used this much, but one of Richter’s painting in enamel suggested the possibility and certainly to get a high gloss finish, this could be just the right material for certain applications.  Must try.

Around the Tate Modern are some other paintings, and I took a look at those on Level 5 yesterday.  I must observe that the painting area is much busier than some of the other parts of the Tate Modern.   The level of engagement with the work is much clearer and quite noticable.

Priceless expression…The look on a lady’s face as she viewed some of the sculpture…Horror! Confusion! Fear! The terror of not knowing how to react, how to understand, how to respond.  What to make of it?  It was one of the highlights of the visit.    Though I very much enjoyed a few of the sculptural exhibits myself, because I feel no need to know anything of them than what I personally feel, (apart from maybe a little information about context) and I always admire technical expertise and craftsmanship, (if applicable),  I can imagine how distressing it might have been for her.

I should have brought a packet of Persil with me.  One of the sculptures I did enjoy was “Venus Of The Rags” by Michelangelo Pistoletto. (What a great name!)

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=88060

Delightful moment number two was a little boy saying that he thought his socks might be in there!

Confronted week by week with piles of washing at home, this sculpture had a special resonance with me.  I  also have a bit of a “thing” about outdoor objects being indoors.

Very impressed with Gunther Vecker’s “White Field” 1964 mixed media.  Nails.  Paint.  Hard and soft in apprearance at the same time.  Manolo Millares certainly knows his stuff too. “Painting 150” 1961.  I am going to need to take some time to look at some more of his work.

Took down my exhibition at the Cornerhouse Community Arts Centre today.  Plan is to concentrate on painting without the huge endeavour of putting on a solo exhibition for the next couple of years.  I have several materials and techniques I want to experiment with and I feel a certain momentum gathering inside, which usually means that time will be productive when spent on painting.

 

Painting is “For Chris at Itchenor” 2009.  (Afterword: Was sold to a collector…Chris!  He found me painting it at Itchenor, so I named it partly for him.  It’s a rare example now of representational painting by me, as I don’t do so much pictorial painting now! ) Looking back rather fondly at this painting which has the emotional and compositional elements exactly how I wanted them.  With all this playing around with materials (great at it is) I shouldn’t loose my way, but keep asking myself what the heart of each painting is.

Paintings I Love – Peter Lanyon Clevedon Night 1964 – Jenny Meehan Contemporary Visual Artist WordPress Blog

Peter Lanyon Clevedon Night 1964

I sometimes come across paintings (or prints of paintings) which excite me so much I know they are there to teach me something which will bear fruit in my own work and “Clevedon Night” by Peter Lanyon is one of those that continues to entice me further into the realm of experimenting with paint.  The artist himself thought the group of paintings it is part of  to be “crazy, quite invisible, victorian and unsaleable”.  So the fact I am besotted with it…Is this a good or bad thing?!  (Laughing).  It matters not. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Inking Outside The Block” Visual Art Exhibition at The Corner House, Surbiton, Surrey – Surrey Artist Jenny Meehan – Hanging Done!

Hung the exhibition today with the much valued help of Stella, and it looks very nice.  Job done.  Two pots not shown, as I am bringing them on the opening night.

http://www.thecornerhouse.org/shows/show.aspx?showid=280

The exhibition runs from Tuesday 6th December to Friday 30th December.  The opening night, which is open to all, is Tuesday 6th December 7pm to 9pm.  I will be there to answer any questions about my work and it should be an enjoyable, sociable time too.  Drinks and nibbles will be available, and there is work offered for sale, ranging from £15 for digital C-prints, up to around £300 for framed paintings.

It is possible to get access to the exhibition during Cornerhouse opening hours, but these do vary depending on what else is going on.  If you cannot make the opening night but would like to come along and view the work at another time, then take a look on the Cornerhouse website to see when the building is open.