Exhibition
Theodore Mendez 1934-1997
3 Feb 2010 – 26 Feb 2010
Event times
09.30-17.30 Mon-Fri & 10.00-14.00 Sat
Address
- First Floor,
- 23 Dering Street
- London
- W1S 1AW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bond Street or Oxford Street
Late Fifties and early Sixties Abstracts
About
Whitfield Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of early abstract paintings by 20th Century British artist Theo Mendez.The exhibition is a critical reassessment of this talented artist's early abstract work. During the 1950s he exhibited first at the Redfern Gallery in 1954; would later show his textile designs at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1956; and in the same year went on to win the Design Award at the Manchester Colour, Design & Style Centre. He studied first at Camberwell College of Arts in 1950, when the likes of Terry Frost, Howard Hodgkin, Euan Uglow, Bernard Dunstan and Gillian Ayres were all contemporaries.
Mendez returned to take up a teaching post at Camberwell in 1958, the same year as Frank Auerbach would start his time on the staff. They would be colleagues until 1965, when Auerbach left his post, and Mendez continued to teach full-time, later becoming Head of the Textile Department from 1976 until his retirement in 1984
