Simon Ling at Towner Art Gallery
9th Oct 2018
Best known for his vibrant, unsettling oil paintings of East London’s urban landscape and the disintegrating office blocks and shabby store fronts near his studio, Ling’s exhibition for Towner, which is his first solo presentation in a UK public institution, showcases a new series of paintings created over the last year alongside earlier works, with diverse subjects including slowly decaying logs, boats on a crowded waterway, anonymous segments of urban greenery, studies of a formally ambiguous object, or ‘portal’, constructed in the artist’s studio and paintings of skeletons.
These richly textured works are characterised, as in all Ling’s work, by a sustained and intense engagement with perception and the painting process.
Everyone is welcome to attend the opening of the exhibition on Friday 12 October. Simon Ling’s exhibition continues until Sunday 27 January.
Image: Untitled, Simon Ling, 2018. Courtesy the artist.