Shoreline

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Shoreline
Karolina Albricht - Ralph Anderson - Karen David - Karolina Dworska - Anna Reading - Alan Sastre
24/06/22 – 27/08/22
TM Lighting Gallery, 7 Cubitt Street, London, WC1X 0LN

TM Lighting Gallery is pleased to present Shoreline, a group exhibition curated by artist Ralph Anderson. The exhibition brings together six contemporary artists and takes as its starting point the surface and texture of their work, recognising and drawing attention to the importance of these qualities in each of the artists'
methods and material considerations. Soft and seductive, rough and coarse, at first these works may appear to concern themselves with physical texture over visual content, their materiality dominating the experience of the artwork, yet it is the oscillation between the physical and visual that more accurately describes what is at
play, and determinative of the viewer’s attention.

Karolina Albricht’s paintings are driven by curiosity, a desire to see what is possible by experimenting with the physicality of paint and negotiating new configurations of form, colour, and surface. Attempting to generate an
active space, an environment which can be perceived and responded to through our intellectual and physical faculties, through the sum of our senses, Albricht is interested in the way a body corresponds to the space it occupies, how it recalibrates as it moves through it and how these relationships are transmuted into the pictorial space and the tactile surface of her work.

Anna Reading’s work celebrates growth and survival in inhospitable environments, combining materials such as surplus oyster shells from pearl farming, cement and asphalt. Appearing as sci-fi relics from an unknown future, depicting imagined landscapes and forms of non-human consciousness, they take inspiration from the
harsh yet abundant ecologies of coastal landscapes, rooted in experiences of human vulnerabilities and exposure.

Alan Sastre uses a process for painting where each stage becomes forgotten or unknown, the procedure identifying with the haphazard process of memory. He is drawn toward the autonomy of painting, in order not to reveal decision-making and force the painting into dialogue. The surface of the works plays with the idea
of time, revealing the layers that have been removed in order to reconstruct, opening a dialogue on the nature of the painted gesture, its presentation and representation. In this reality, the painting presents itself and calls the
creative gesture into question.

Karen David's paintings are part of her PhD project 'Commune of the Viable Essence'; a fiction that operates as a studio device for generating ideas. Through characters resident in an abandoned commune in the desert landscape of Southwestern America, a search for a mutation of Greenberg's 'viable essence' occurs: a substance that holds both material and spiritual qualities. She is currently completing a practice-led PhD at the University of Worcester titled 'Mythmaking in Art Practice' on fictional narrative, communes and para-anthropology.

Karolina Dworska works predominantly in textiles and sculpture, her artistic practice exploring dreams and mythologies, and delving into the subject matter of the in-between; the grey areas between dreaming and reality, of fantasy spaces, balancing precariously between definitions. Her multidisciplinary practice focuses on dreamscapes, in which things are not quite right, undefined and uncomfortable, littered with surreal motifs and mysterious inhabitants. She uses the meditative state of dreaming as a lens to examine the strangeness of
inhabiting a body and its fragility.

Ralph Anderson’s work focuses on the gestural forms and mark-making inherent in most aspects of painting and drawing. Conscious and subconscious marks are juxtaposed along with forms restricted in their conception
and application, whether through material or tool choice, in the search for new readings (or even misreadings) of the painted mark. Anderson often uses power tools in the production of his paintings, limiting his own gestural and artistic outcomes, while highlighting the naive, crude and accidental.