Graham Carrick

Graham Carrick
London

By Martin Maloney taken from PAGE exhibition

Graham Carrick paints snatches of art history surface in a knowingway. In Pick An Emotion he paints an abstract arrangement of angles in a Philip Guston type stacked up arrangement. This is abstraction painted graphically. Carrick's angles are arranged like a sculptural object emerging from a dark ground. Carrick paints a figurative painting but the subject matter of the painting is the language of abstraction. The artist considers the idea of how to construct an abstract painting. The result is a literal thing formed from abstract parts to become an object. The title suggests a game. The careful but wild arrangement looks like the children's toy Kerplunk. Carrick makes work which looks carefully painted and skilfully arranged yet casually improvised. We can see he has changes of mind and over painted areas and blocked outsections give the impression that the finished painting has justarrived with some revisions.Neo Feelingis a painting of a head, a portrait with the features obscured and painted over. Baselitz style expressionism competes with a cooler abstraction of lines and angles, Carrick mixes expressionism with the look of futurism but
without the mea...

2013
This year’s model, Studio 1.1, London
Cluster 2.5, Mas Civiles, Briffa, London Art Fair

2012
Cluster 2, Mas Civiles, SW1 Gallery, London
FN at the Fitzrovia Club, Fitzrovia private dining club, London
Once upon a time, Radcliffe and Newlands, London

2011
Home is where the art is, Wells Street, London
Primary, Dekko, London
Fitzrovia Intervention Art Trail
PAGE Three, Brompton RD, London

2010
Pendulum, St Hilda's pithead, South Shields
PAGE2, Brompton Road, London
Pistols and Pollinators, The Gallery, Stoke Newington, London
PAGE1, Kensington, London
Geography of the Body; Geography of the Mind, Briffa, London Art Fair

2009
Cluster, Mas Civiles, London
The waiting room, Hortensia Gallery, KCC,
Current Affairs, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
Something to declare, Total Kunst Gallery, Edinburgh
TOP100, Jealous Gallery, London and The Great Escape Festival, Brighton
Exquisite Decay part two, Chateau D'Alba, France
Project Hope, Galerie Dentaire, Montreal
Responses to Conflict and Loss, The University of Hertfordshire
Drawing with Dolphins, Crimestown Gallery

2008
Marmite Prize, Studio 1.1, London
Exquisite Decay, Whitecross Gallery, London
Westminster Open, SW1 Gallery, London
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