Berlin:
LUCY TEASDALE, MICHAEL MARKWICK
Serious Play
20 April – 2nd June 2018
Lucy Teasdale, Grandly National, 2017, Acrystal, 36 x 66 x 22 cm
Lucy Teasdale, Polo!, 2017, Acrystal and brass, 52 x 28 x 28 cm
Lucy Teasdale, Toad, 2018, Acrystal, 46 x 18 x 17 cm
Lucy Teasdale, Dancers, 2018, Acrystal, 29 x 40 x 23 cm
Lucy Teasdale, Jay, 2018, Acrystal, 38 x 18 x 17 cm
Michael Markwick, The Slide, 2017, Acrylic on linen, 140 x 110 cm
MIchael Markwick, Ghost Kite, 2018, Acrylic on linen, 90 x 70 cm
MIchael Markwick, The Clattering Bones of a Flower, 2017, Acrylic on linen, 140 x 110 cm
Michael Markwick, Sailor on the Styx, 2018, Acylic on linen, 120 x 90 cm
Michael Markwick, Bird Waiting for Storm, 2018, Acrylic on linen, 90 x 70 cm
Michael Markwick, Sky Waiting for Kites, 2018, Acrylic on linen, 90 x 70 cm
Michael Markwick, Poet Climbing Out of the Earth, 2017, 180 x 150 cm
Michael Markwick, Quiet Dissonance, 2017, Acrylic on linen, 140 x 110 cm
Lucy Teasdale
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1984
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born in Birmingham, England |
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2006 – 2007
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Studies at the University of the Arts, Berlin |
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2007-10
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Study of Free Art, Art Academy Düsseldorf with Tony Cragg |
lives and works in Berlin
Michael Markwick
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1974
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born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA |
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1998
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Bachelors of Fine Arts, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
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2002
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Masters of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana |
lives and works in Berlin
On visiting Lucy Teasdale in her studio in Berlin a few days ago I was immediately reminded of a visit I made to Uwe Kowski years ago. Back then, when Kowski was working on large canvases, there were small watercolors lying about his work space, sketches, ideas for possible large format realization.
At Lucy Teasdale's the studio walls are hung with photos from newspapers and hand drawn sketches, a collection of ideas for possible new sculptures. One can follow the development of her ideas in the small clay forms, testing the potential for sculptural realization before the work on the larger format begins. However, the sketches and preliminary forms merely serve as a starting point, with the sculpture growing from out of itself. One senses the artist's passion for the energy and movement of bodies, which she tests to the limit in her work, time and again.
I have never inquired whether Michael Markwick makes sketches before starting work on a canvas. The drawings that I am familiar with are generally figurative, representational. In contrast, his paintings are abstracter. I imagine he has a sketch, an idea of the painting he intends to make in his mind's eye. If one takes a look at Markwick's canvases they would seem to confirm this idea. One has a sense that the work has grown steadily through the application of many layers of paint, with the painting subjected to a continual process of change until Markwick finally reaches the endpoint of the respective work.
His painting has much to do with landscapes, with space, with his pictures frequently featuring objects as well as architectonic elements. Thus Markwick arrives at a means of expression situated between abstraction and representational painting.
I am already looking forward to the dialogue between Lucy Teasdale and Michael Markwick's work in the exhibition "Serious Play".
Matthias Fuhrmann, March 2018
LUCY TEASDALE,
MICHAEL MARKWICK
Serious Play, 2018
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21 x 29.7 cm, 20 pages
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