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NEIL GALL

May 1 - June 22, 2012

NEIL GALL

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    David Nolan Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of the second New York solo exhibition of the British artist Neil Gall (b. 1967). The show will feature recent drawings and paintings.

    Gall’s works refer to art history and vernacular culture, from English neo-romanticism and contemporary photography to science fiction and popular music. They are sublimely beautiful, painted and drawn in luscious hues and in startling detail. His virtuosity elevates the humble nature of the models upon which the images are based. Ping-pong balls taped together become monumental, anthropomorphized figures reminiscent of Hans Bellmer’s famous Doll sculptures. A cardboard carton becomes an awkwardly elegant totem. Wires and balls of clay metamorphose into fearsome prehistoric or extraterrestrial creatures.

    Although his relationship with his models is familiar, like that of old friends, Gall sometimes distances himself by taking photographs of them. Gall collages these photographs with bits of canvases torn from old found paintings, then paints or draws the resulting fractured images. Rather than giving in to traditional portrait or landscape compositions, the paintings of collages give the models yet another life, abstracted but still recognizable, in which the parts speak for the whole.

    Gall unveils the magic in these everyday objects, transforming them into surreal idols of material culture. These models appear again and again in the paintings and drawings, each time approached from a different perspective and gaze like Cézanne did with Mont St. Victoire, or Morandi with his bottles and boxes. While postmodern art discourse privileges the deconstructive analysis of the viewer’s gaze, Gall’s project returns to the romantic idea of the artist’s eye as he reconstructs his enchanted world with a tinge of ironic humor.

    Neil Gall was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and currently lives in London. He received his BA in Painting at Gray’s School of Art and then attended Slade School of Art in London in 1991. His art has garnered him numerous awards in Great Britain, and his work is featured in prominent international private collections.

    BOOK SIGNING (in conjunction with Frieze New York)
    Saturday, May 5 from 5-7 pm
    Neil Gall will be present to sign copies of his new monograph, Works: 2007-2011, published by Hatje Cantz.
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    • Neil Gall Canterbury (Monster Field), 2011-12 oil on linen 78 15/16 x 95 11/16 in (200.5 x 243 cm)
      Neil Gall
      Canterbury (Monster Field), 2011-12
      oil on linen
      78 15/16 x 95 11/16 in (200.5 x 243 cm)
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    • Neil Gall Dark Matter (Birth), 2011 oil on linen 83 7/8 x 68 15/16 in (213 x 175 cm)
      Neil Gall
      Dark Matter (Birth), 2011
      oil on linen
      83 7/8 x 68 15/16 in (213 x 175 cm)
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    • Neil Gall For, but Not With, 2012 oil on linen 46 1/4 x 37 5/8 in 117.5 x 95.5 cm
      Neil Gall
      For, but Not With, 2012
      oil on linen
      46 1/4 x 37 5/8 in
      117.5 x 95.5 cm
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    • Neil Gall Hanging Garden, 2011-12 oil on linen 63 x 50 in (160 x 127 cm)
      Neil Gall
      Hanging Garden, 2011-12
      oil on linen
      63 x 50 in (160 x 127 cm)
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    • Neil Gall I Am Not Saying Anything, I See Too Much, 2011-12 oil on linen 31 1/2 x 26 1/2 in (80 x 67.5 cm)
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      I Am Not Saying Anything, I See Too Much, 2011-12
      oil on linen
      31 1/2 x 26 1/2 in (80 x 67.5 cm)
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    • Neil Gall On the Beach, 2011 oil on linen 76 1/8 x 97 3/4 in (193.5 x 248 cm)
      Neil Gall
      On the Beach, 2011
      oil on linen
      76 1/8 x 97 3/4 in (193.5 x 248 cm)
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    • Neil Gall Outline, 2012 colored pencil on paper 31 5/8 x 27 7/8 in (80.3 x 70.7 cm)
      Neil Gall
      Outline, 2012
      colored pencil on paper
      31 5/8 x 27 7/8 in (80.3 x 70.7 cm)
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    • Neil Gall Really Live It Up Until We Die, 2012 colored pencil on paper 35 1/4 x 27 7/8 in (89.5 x 70.7 cm)
      Neil Gall
      Really Live It Up Until We Die, 2012
      colored pencil on paper
      35 1/4 x 27 7/8 in (89.5 x 70.7 cm)
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    • Neil Gall A Pagan Place, 2012 colored pencil on paper 34 1/4 x 27 7/8 in (87 x 70.7 cm)
      Neil Gall
      A Pagan Place, 2012
      colored pencil on paper
      34 1/4 x 27 7/8 in (87 x 70.7 cm)
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    • Neil Gall Rise and Fall, 2011 oil on linen 90 7/8 x 69 in 230.5 x 175.2 cm
      Neil Gall
      Rise and Fall, 2011
      oil on linen
      90 7/8 x 69 in
      230.5 x 175.2 cm
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    • Neil Gall The Wanderer, 2012 colored pencil on paper 33 7/8 x 27 7/8 in (86 x 70.7 cm)
      Neil Gall
      The Wanderer, 2012
      colored pencil on paper
      33 7/8 x 27 7/8 in (86 x 70.7 cm)
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  • Publications
    • Neil Gall: Works 2007-2011

      Neil Gall: Works 2007-2011

      2012 Read more
  • Artist
    • NEIL GALL

      NEIL GALL

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