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Maria Chevska : Can't Wait (Letters R.L.)
Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Awaiting the visitor to her first solo show in London for almost three years are two significant developments in Maria Chevska's work. The first is the introduction of objects into the gallery space, objects that the viewer has to negotiate and which act as both an aid and a restriction  to reading her paintings. And the second is that this exhibition is suffused with one voice only, rather than the conversation between literary figures that has been a  feature of Chevska's distinctive use of short, fragmented  texts.

Maria Chevska was born in London in 1949. She is currently Head of Painting at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. Chevskas recent work proposes a symbiosis between two and three dimensions, deploying paintings and objects. The paintings replace visual image by words, or a fictional description, that goes beyond the works surface reality. Selected solo exhibitions include, Angel Row, Nottingham in 1994; Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany, 1997; Andrew Mummery Gallery, London and Abbot Hall Gallery and Museum, 1999 and Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris. She lives and works in London.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only Skin Deep:  Photography’s Role in Shaping America’s Identity
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA

This spring the Seattle Art Museum will present an engaging exhibition which questions photography’s role in shaping America’s understanding of nation, race, and selfhood. Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self references issues around race and national identity with a contemporary viewpoint and offers a critical rereading of the history of photography, which has been the primary method of recording events and images from the mid-19th century to the present. Organized by the International Center of Photography.

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