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The Armory Show, New York, 2023
Tahnee Lonsdale 8 - 10 Sep 2023While radiating a powerful affective charge, Lonsdale’s compositions retain a fundamental core of unknowability: her swooping, supple figures resist any attempt to unambiguously decode them into human terms. In the group of images presented here, their flowing forms seem to be feminine, but their gender ultimately remains equivocal. The moments of communion they share could be part of some ritualistic rite or the most everyday conviviality, or both at once. The scenes might depict washing or bathing, but the translucent substance in which they float or hover could also be...Read more -
Contemporary Art Now, Ibiza, 2022
Chechu Álava | Tomo Campbell | Tahnee Lonsdale | Ming Ying 13 - 17 Jul 2022Cob is pleased to announce it's inclusion in the 2022 iteration of Contemporary Art Now Fair in Ibiza this coming July presenting works by Chechu Álava , Tomo Campbell, Tahnee Lonsdale and Ming Ying. These artists are brought together in their exploration of the still life as substitute for the figurative. Compositions devoid of a physical human presence, yet in their absence imbuing the inanimate with a sense of the human condition. CAN – Contemporary Art Now– is envisioned as a laid-back event that celebrates somewhat...Read more -
Untitled Art, Miami, 2021
Tomo Campbell | Tahnee Lonsdale 29 Nov - 4 Dec 2021Inspired by a diverse array of source material, Tomo Campbell’s large-scale oil paintings are constantly altering, extending and breaking down conventions. His abstracted depictions of ‘traditional’ subjects such as hunting, parades and explorers are, as he puts it, ‘never quite solid or whole’, yet they exude an extraordinarily rich sense of vision. ‘I try to paint in a way that makes the paint vibrate’, says Campbell, ‘to make it look light and delicate and on the cusp of shifting’. His bold, layered arrangements of complementary colours, reminiscent of the Rococo,...Read more