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Jake Garfield 2018
Exhibition
The Real Thing - Jake Garfield
1 Feb 2018 – 11 Feb 2018
Event times
Private View: Thursday 1st February, 7-9pm
Exhibition dates: 2nd-11th February
Gallery open: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11am-6pm
Or by appointment
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- 253 Hoxton St
- London
- N1 5LG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Hoxton Overground / Old Street Underground
For his first solo exhibition with Mercer Chance Gallery, Jake Garfield will be showing a selection of works on paper, made since his graduation from the Royal College of Art in the summer of 2016.
About
Garfield adopts the traditional printmaking processes of lithography, monoprint and wood-cut to explore the relationship between images and reality in contemporary life. His subjects, largely drawn from cinema, are the masks of the everyday: beards being shaven; make-up being applied; faces being distorted and reflected through screens, frames and mirrors.The show’s title is a reference to the Tom Stoppard play of the same name, in which the boundary between fact and fiction, play and reality is constantly questioned. In this exhibition, sub-realities of mirrors or pictures-within-pictures exist as a reminder of the illusory nature of the work, as does the stretching, cropping or doubling of the image. With borders that are neither part of or outside the image, what is real in these worlds is constantly shifting - yet there is a tension between these alienating elements and the warmth of the artist’s hand in creating these worlds.
With works ranging in scale from matchbox-sized monotypes to a wood cut 2 metres in length, The Real Thing expands on the processes developed by Garfield with master printers Jim Reid (Gemini G.E.L.) and Maggie Lomelli (Gray Area Editions) while on a residency in El Segundo Museum of Art, California in 2015. To make the monotypes and lithographs, Garfield imitates industrial ‘CMYK’ printing processes through meticulous drawing, building up an image through layers of semi-transparent colour. The result is something that is both personal and distant, intimate and cold, real and not.
About The Artist
Jake Garfield has exhibited in the London, Brighton, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, New York and Antwerp. He is the recipient of several awards including the Printmaker’s Council Award for his MA show at the Royal College of Art in 2016 and the Printmaking Prize on graduation of the Royal Drawing School’s post-graduate Drawing Year in 2013.
Recent residencies include Rush Arts, New York (July 2017), Dumfries House, Ayrshire (September 2016 & September 2017) and El Segundo Museum of Art, California (July- September 2015).
Garfield lives and works in London. www.jakegarfield.co.uk
instagram: @jakegarfieldart
