Whitney McVeigh in conversation with JJ Charlesworth and Curator, Sotiris Kyriacou October 22, 2009

This Thursday join artist Whitney McVeigh, Sotiris Kyriacou (curator) and JJ Charlesworth (writer and reviews editor of Art Review) for an informal tour of the artist’s show at A Foundation.

A Foundation’s exhibition of new work by McVeigh features monoprints, collages and works on found paper. McVeigh’s work has a vivid immediacy which celebrates the potential of the medium to suggest, rather than define, possible readings. In a series of large-scale monoprints, the black acrylic, rich and tactile in its material presence, is coaxed into yielding interpretations that refuse to settle.

In the collages, this fertile indeterminacy keeps the viewer busy through a free association of word and image. Also showing are works on found paper. McVeigh isolates pages from sources such as sailing manuals, old encyclopaedias and book keeping ledgers and assaults them with drawing or mark-making, prompting dialogues through obliteration and accretion.

McVeigh’s work is currently on show at the NY Arts Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale until November 22nd and Whitney McVeigh will also feature in a BBC Four documentary presented by Gus Casley-Hayford on the current art scene.

Key information: Thursday, 22 October 2009, 6.30pm
A Foundation, Rochelle School & Club Row, Arnold Circus , London E2 7ES
Admission: FREE, to reserve your place call (0)20 8969 3959
www.afoundation.org.uk

Official Website: http://www.afoundation.org.uk