Transition Gallery's show 'The Painting Room', which opened on Saturday, features over 70 paintings, giving a sense of the multitude of contemporary themes being explored in today's painting. The transformative quality of painting's language, its current vitality and its continuing ability to re-invent itself are all represented in the exhibition, showing how painting today is a multifaceted media of expression where ideas ranging from the playful to conceptual, fairytale to melancholic and historical to ultra-modern combine to reiterate the sheer exuberance of painting. Of particular note are the young Portuguese performance artist and painter Carlos Noronha Feio, Sarah Douglas who completed an MA at the Royal College of Art in London two years ago, Ryan Mosley who graduated with an MA from the Royal College last year, Adam Latham also from the Royal College, and Annie Kevans whose portraits of movie stars and dictators have been shown in several recent London shows.
Carlos Noronha Feio, "Hail the dead futures "
Sarah Douglas
Adam Latham
Annie Kevans, from the series 'Vamps & Innocents'
Artists participating in 'The Painting Room:
Henny Acloque, Michael Ajerman, Carolina Ambida, Eleni Bagaki, Kim Baker, Mike Bartlett, Olly Beck, Paul Becker, Patricia Beja, Julie Bennett, Amie Bolissian, Guy Bourner, Andrew Bracey, Joanna Bryniarska, Jake Clark, Jessica Coates, Katie Cuddon, Tahu Deans, Karen Douglas, Sarah Douglas, Annabel Dover, Tamara Dubnyckyj, Katarina Forss, Marenka Gabeler, Patrick Galway, Kirsten Glass, David Gledhill, Géraldine Gliubislavich, Paul Green, Julia Hamilton, Stephen Harwood, Teiji Hayama, Nadia Hebson, Camilla Hicks, Sigrid Holmwood, Rod Hunt, Luke Jackson, Sarah Jeffries, Annie Kevans, Rebecca Knapp, Adam Latham, Rob Leech, Jesse Leroy Smith, Iwan Lewis, Richard Livingston, Cathy Lomax, Lee Maelzer, Andrew Mania, Kate Marshall, Gary McDonald, Fiona Michie, Alex Michon, Eleanor Moreton, Ryan Mosley, Carlos Noronha Feio, Laura Oldfield Ford, Rachel Potts, Kelly Pretty, Emma Puntis, Harry Pye, Polly Read, Alli Sharma, Emma Talbot, Mimei Thompson, Hitoko Urago, David Webb, Jo Wilmot, David Wojtowycz, Simon Wright, William Wright, Rose Wylie
The Painting Room
Until 10 February
Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
London E8
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