Double Take
Recent work by James Evans, Susan Gunn, and Tassie Russell
10th - 24th May
OPENING TIMES: Monday – Friday 11am – 5pm | Saturday 11am – 4pm
CLOSED Sunday | FREE ENTRY |
The Crypt Gallery looks forward to welcoming upcoming exhibition, Double Take which coincides with Norfolk and Norwich Festival, running from Friday 10 to 24 May 2024. The exhibition consists of recent work by three artists with strong bonds to East Anglia: sculptor, James Evans, painter, Susan Gunn and painter, printmaker and photographer, Tassie Russell.
The quality of all three artists' work draws the viewer in, encouraging us to look closer and overturn our assumptions, exploring the familiar as locations for ambiguity. The idea that there is nothing more deceptive than certainty, is not new. These three artists prove the point using their considerable skills to make accomplished art that vacillate between initial appearance and more covert qualities that become evident upon further inquiry.
Sculptor, James Evans has been navigating variants in his ceramic forms for several decades now. He uses surface textures, glazes, and firing techniques like Saggar to bring incident to folds and hollows in his sculpture. They could at first glance be interpreted as flint, tendon, bone, cast iron, or soft tissue. And yet they are none of these materials. He has developed transfers applied with such delicacy to the surface of a trunk or torso shape that they read as tattooed skin or a bruised limb.
To find out more information about James Evans follow through to Contemporary and Country website here.
Painter, Susan Gunn has created painted surfaces scattered with physical incident in canvas after canvas. Using a variety of techniques that include gesso, and mineral pigments that lay down their surfaces laced with delicate hairline breaks across an otherwise immaculate plain, their apparent fragility creates an emotional resonance for the viewer. The tension Susan creates between the precise control of her painted surfaces with these moments of vulnerability, set them apart.
To find out more information about Susan Gunn follow through to Contemporary and Country website here.
Tassie Russell’s striking photographs of interiors in this exhibition are deceptive both in terms of what they depict, as well as how they inform her work as an established painter and printmaker. Her photographs in Double Take are interiors, but there is something amiss in how they read. The architectural space that fills each frame, does not quite make sense. Unobservant viewers could easily dismiss these beautifully composed images depicting the trappings of an English country house for exactly what they seem. However, appearances can be deceptive. The photographs are of a magnificent Georgian Doll’s House. Each room is a time capsule of what was ‘of the moment’ in English interiors during the late eighteenth century, reproduced in large black and white prints and smaller colour compositions.
To find out more information about Tassie Russell follow through to Contemporary and Country website here.
