John Copeland : your heaven looks just like my hell / edited by Jason Beard, Amie Corry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Copeland, John, artist.

Contributor:

Beard, Jason, editor.

Corry, Amie, editor.

Newport Street Gallery.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copeland, John--Exhibitions.

Copeland, John.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

98 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm

Other Title:

Your heaven looks just like my hell

Place of Publication:

[London] : Other Criteria Books, [2018]

Summary:

Veering between representation and abstraction, Copeland's paintings feature tactile, impasto surfaces, rendered in oil and acrylic paint. Professing an interest in "any arrangement that involves interaction between the figures", Copeland often situates his subjects in social settings - around a table, playfully balanced on one another's shoulders, or surveying a painting as a group. The figures remain, however, deeply ambiguous, and are set against abstract backgrounds populated by curious, amorphous shapes. The unnerving quality of the imagery is heightened by the appearance of pairs or mirrored human forms, as in The Bullet Screams Past (2015).

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the title exhibition at the Newport Street Gallery, London, February 21-May 28, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1906967903

9781906967901

OCLC:

1031151094