Claire Oliver

Beautiful gallery displaying beautiful work! They were showing Matthew Sleet (mostly photographs) today and it was a perfect break from the valentine’s humdrum of chocolates and dinners.
The gallery itself has two floors, with a ground floor and a basement. Crisp white walls and light wooden flooring put the art front and centre.
Matthew Sleet’s Magnificent Obsessions was an absorbing series of photosets, each with a particular theme (feet on the subway, rain umbrellas, outdoor string lights…). Trying to describe art is hard, especially trying to describe art while not sounding pretentious and bouge-​tacular, so I won’t attempt it.
But I definitely wouldn’t say no to coming back for another visit!

This gallery was awesome. The best experience of the day by far. Not only was the art on the walls was amazing, it was only gallery that said «hello» when I walked in the door. The current 102 010 anniversary exhibition highlights the galleries artists. For me Bernardi Roig and Andrew Erdos were the standouts.

Julie Blackmon photography exhibit «Domestic Vacations» felt a little like Elle Décor-​meets-​mental-​institution. With a Royal Tannenbaums flair.
The works showcased a uniquely disturbing montage of children hanging upside down from antique couches in architectural, crisp, white rooms with grandfather clocks. I haven’t been able to get the images out of my head. The digital technique is something new, as the children and objects look displaced from their original context and digitally placed in a new one.
Another exhibit titled «Suspicious Origins: Julie Blackmon and Clark & Pougnaud» featured the similar photographic technique, but of Dorothy displaced on a white brick rooftop amidst gray, contemporary settings. Others featured iconic characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, in what looked like an edgy Brooklyn. Striking and memorable — and art I’d want to live with in my home… I think.