Past Exhibitions At Greek Street

Lazarides Gallery, Greek Street is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Todd James, a.k.a. REAS. Blood & Treasure features a series of over twenty new paintings, as well as a never-before-seen animated video.

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Lazarides Gallery is pleased to present A Nightmare on Greek Street, a new series of work by Ben Turnbull.

In his last show at Lazarides, Turnbull asked for 'A TIME FOR CHANGE'. That time has now passed and he is still angered, fraustrated and concerned by what has caused such a level of civil unrest. With his new show, Turbull has felt compelled to open people's eyes to the horrors that creep outsde bedroom doors by creating a pop-meets-Hammer Horror sci-fi nasty...

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Jonathan Yeo, leading painter of the glitterati and politicians of our time, will present a series of new works, inspired by his famous George W Bush porn collage, at Lazarides Gallery London.

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Lazarides Gallery is delighted to present the first solo show by young British painter, Miranda Donovan. Donovan’s unique work fuses an interest in the techniques and outlook of street and urban artists with a dedication to the possibilities and practice of painting. For her Lazarides exhibition, Donovan will present over twenty paintings from five new series of works.

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Our next solo show will feature the work of Mode2 who is considered to be among the most influential street artists ever; having been drawing since he could pick up a pen or pencil, and also fascinated by writing and calligraphy in general.

Never Too Late... sees Mode in a more politically reflective mood, questioning some of the issues which make the news these days. To find out more read the press release.

Our next exhibition will be a solo show by David Choe. He will be exhibiting new work in both our London gallery in Greek Street and our Newcastle gallery.

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Opening on 25th January 2008 at Lazarides Gallery will be new works by Conor Harrington. The show will feature paintings made from oil and aerosol paint alongside a series of new charcoal drawings. Weekend Warriors explores the world of historical re-enactment, where men dress up at the weekends as warriors, generals and emperors to live out their escapist fantasies as heroes and supermen.

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Opening on 7 December 2007 at Lazarides Gallery will be Lucy McLauchlan’s first London solo exhibition. It will present a series of new, unseen canvas work alongside a site-specific installation. The collaborative work will involve the participation of musicians whose music will affect the artist’s drawings while her visuals will influence their playing. Press release.

Zevs’s new exhibition opening on 16 November at Lazarides Gallery will be his first London solo exhibition. LIQUIDATED LOGOS presents a new docufiction film based on the artist’s activities over the last ten years alongside a series of unseen screen prints of famous logos, liquidated on large coloured plexiglass boards. Press release

Space Invader’s new exhibition opening on 5 October at Lazarides Gallery will be his first London solo exhibition. Space invaders was a video phenomenon of the 1980s, heralding the birth of a new era in both technology and popular culture. 30 years on, French artist Space Invader has filled the streets with pixellated mosaic tiles of his work inspired by the original game, spreading them over the walls of more than 35 of the world’s biggest cities in the last ten years alone.Press release

Our next exhibition will be a collaboration between Ericailcane and Blu.

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Sketch from Blu's website
Etching from Ericailcane's website
Collaboration between Ericailcane and Blu
Another collaboration between Ericailcane and Blu

New paintings and graphic screen prints by artist and image manipulator Paul Insect. Paul presents a selection of colourful, hard-edged and sometimes schizophrenic images in his first solo show ‘Bullion’ at the Lazarides Gallery.

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New etchings and paintings by Stanley Donwood. Artist and designer Stanley
Donwood has gained worldwide recognition for his work on the album and poster art for Radiohead, and will be showing his most recent work at Lazarides Gallery.Full press release.

Washington DC-based installation artist Mark Jenkins has over the past four years experimented with clear packing tape (sellotape) to create cast-based sculpture that he installs in cities as a form of non-permission based street art, a sort of “off-wall” graffiti. The works’ humour and surreal nature has helped generate huge interest amongst the public and re-engaged them with their built environment. Jenkins is now bringing his art to the UK, and for his first solo show at the Lazarides gallery he will present an assemblage of sculptures and documentary street installation photographs.Full press release

FAILE is an international collective of artists, famed for their striking iconography and unique style of layered and collaged paintings that find their source in pop culture and comic books. FAILE is widely acknowledged as one of the early pioneers in the contemporary street art movement and since forming in the late 90s, FAILE has exhibited in galleries across the world, from Tokyo and Shanghai, to Berlin and Copenhagen and the major cities in the USA.

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U.S. vs THEM, is Ben Turnbull’s first exhibition at the Lazarides Gallery, and presents a group of 15 provocative, politically committed and striking new sculptures that reveal the dark side of U.S. society and its political system, in the year that the American Presidential election race heats-up. The exhibition presents familiar symbols of religion, sacrifice, patriotism and propaganda and subverts and exposes their brainwashing effect by re-making them from accumulated flea-market toys, or re-packaging them as huge games, all branded in the iconic red, white and blue of the Stars and Stripes.Read whole press release.

SEE-SAW - "A situation characterised by rapid, repeated changes from one state or position to another" (Oxford dictionary)New at Soho’s Lazarides gallery this November is See-Saw, an exhibition show casing new works by celebrated artist Conor Harrington. The show features original portraits in a combination of oil and aerosol, as well as charcoal drawings.Conor has described the themes behind the work as "a depiction of a lone figure swimming in a sea of abstract urban chaos. These pieces explore the transient aspect of graffiti, drawing parallels between these urban traces and human movement. The paintings embody two opposing elements - oil and aerosol, abstraction and representation, chaos and control, constantly see-sawing back and forth."

This autumn, acclaimed artist Antony Micallef will be bringing his own unique style of painting Lazarides gallery with his first UK solo show ‘It’s A Wonderful World’.Pieces in the show deal with the subject of portraiture in a dark and slightly twisted way: human forms are placed in artificial, unnatural environments that are influenced by the many guises of branding and popular culture. The paintings combine skilled brushwork with references to old masters and Japanese graphic design.Micallef’s work examines modern society’s dichotomous relationship with consumerism, examining how people maintain to despise multi-national brands, yet still allow themselves to be seduced by them. His works make extensive use of corporate logos and icons from popular culture, which lend a very special style to his paintings.

A summer show featuring new work from Antony Micallef, Conor Harrington, Banksy, Polly Morgan, Faile, Invader and Jamie Hewlett, amongst others.

‘Dream On’ is a retrospective of work by photographer Ewen Spencer.Spencer has documented people from many of this country’s musical subcultures, including Northern Soul, Drum 'n' Bass, Heavy Metal, Punk and Garage.‘Dream On’ is a reflection of these subcultures, and of how they have changed over the past decade. Prints shown in the exhibition will range from groups of teenagers on London’s urban ‘Grime’ scene, to images taken on the media party circuit during the glory days of UK Garage. Spencer’s photographs are a candid snapshot depicting a specific time and place in UK youth culture and music.

Artist and designer Stanley Donwood has gained worldwide recognition for his work on the album and poster art for Radiohead. He has collaborated with the band since 1994, when he designed the artwork for their second album "The Bends".

The exhibition showed thirteen original panels. Each panel depicted an apocalyptic vision of modern day London, viewed in panorama from the Thames and showing iconic structures including Big Ben, Canary Wharf and the dome of St. Paul's.

Donwood draw some of his inspiration for "London Views" from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle. One of the earliest printed books, The Chronicle – by Hartmann Schedel – was a primitive world history, accompanied by 1,804 lavish woodcuts. Donwood has transported the style of these illustrations into a modern setting, adding a Medievalised atmosphere to his vision of apocalypse in England's capital.

'Swish' is a group show by some of contemporary cultures leading lights. Artists who have been ignored by the traditional art world, but are at least trying to make some kind of sense in a crazy world.We aim to create an informal atmosphere where anyone can feel comfortable viewing art or sheltering from the rain.