Structure and Imagery

Recently I visited the studios of two of my favorite artists working in London today. Robin Greenwood is a sculptor, a co-founder of the seminal Abstract Critical and the founder and editor of it's follow up site Abcrit . In addition, Greenwood was the founder and director of Poussin Gallery and as such provided a showcase for some of most revered painters and sculptors in the U.K. Robin Greenwood in 2011 participating in an Abstract Critical debate at Mummery and Schnelle Gallery photo courtesy of Abstract Critical I have known Robin through social media for the last few years and have come to rely on and admire his, clear and uncompromising take on abstraction and the artists who make it both in the U.K. and abroad. This visit was the first time we met in person and I appreciate the time spent in conversation in Greenwood's studio and in viewing a bit of his personal art collection. Greenwood's work is hard to pin down. There is structure and str...

Deep Purple Center 1986 Delta Sound 1988-96 Honeydripper 1977 The Painter's Song 1993 Video still from Fred Pollock: Portrait of an Abstract Artist by Ronan Pollock From Pollock's bio courtesy of the Poussin Gallery : Fred Pollock was born in Glasgow in 1937, and studied at Glasgow School of Art. He now lives and works in London, and was amongst the artist who showed together at Stockwell Depot in the Seventies. His work was included in “British Painting 1952-77” at the Royal Academy in 1977, and in the Eighties he began a series of solo shows at the Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London. In 1980 he was in the Hayward Annual, and in 1982, a Serpentine Gallery Summer Show. In 1984 Pollock was a guest artist at the Triangle Workshop in Mashomack, New York State. In the Nineties he had solo shows at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, as well as solo shows in Amsterdam and Groningen. His work has always been held in high re...