After studying at the prestigious Goldsmiths University in London, Alexis Harding began to exhibit on the British circuit as part of a generation of artists interested in renewing earlier pictorial languages. Critics have frequently connected Harding’s painting to a current focused on analysing modernity, a link that the critic Chris Townsend defines in terms of intimacy and ambivalence.
As regards his recent work, Harding stresses that he uses the language of abstraction marked by a clear desire for a clean break. He therefore delves into processes capable of completely altering the logic and functions of the medium: ‘The way in which I work is a combination of strategy and control, and of irrationality and abandon […]. I want to handle the basic ingredients of painting, their mute attributes, by means of a type of subjective filter, to see an entropic urban image emerge from the other side’. An output that reflects on temporariness, materiality and the physicality of painting, which explores the frontiers of a discipline in permanent crisis and redefinition, tested yet again here.
Since the mid-1990s, Alexis Harding has taken part in many exhibitions, including those held at the Stephen Friedman Gallery (London, 1996); the Tate Liverpool (United Kingdom, 1996); and the Ikon Gallery (Birmingham, United Kingdom, 1997). His work has recently been exhibited at the Cock ‘n’ Bull Gallery (London, 2013), Mummery + Schnelle (London, 2012) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, 2008).
After studying at the prestigious Goldsmiths University in London, Alexis Harding began to exhibit on the British circuit as part of a generation of artists interested in renewing earlier pictorial languages. Critics have frequently connected Harding’s painting to a current focused on analysing modernity, a link that the critic Chris Townsend defines in terms of intimacy and ambivalence.
As regards his recent work, Harding stresses that he uses the language of abstraction marked by a clear desire for a clean break. He therefore delves into processes capable of completely altering the logic and functions of the medium: ‘The way in which I work is a combination of strategy and control, and of irrationality and abandon […]. I want to handle the basic ingredients of painting, their mute attributes, by means of a type of subjective filter, to see an entropic urban image emerge from the other side’. An output that reflects on temporariness, materiality and the physicality of painting, which explores the frontiers of a discipline in permanent crisis and redefinition, tested yet again here.
Since the mid-1990s, Alexis Harding has taken part in many exhibitions, including those held at the Stephen Friedman Gallery (London, 1996); the Tate Liverpool (United Kingdom, 1996); and the Ikon Gallery (Birmingham, United Kingdom, 1997). His work has recently been exhibited at the Cock ‘n’ Bull Gallery (London, 2013), Mummery + Schnelle (London, 2012) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, 2008).