Join Max Waterhouse and Mike Goldmark for this walkthrough of our latest Graham Boyd exhibition - Graham Boyd A Celebration. The retrospective exhibition of abstract paintings opened on 26th October 2024.
Goldmark has presented and sold the work of many classic abstract artists (from Kandinsky to Miró, Caro to Hoyland) and of artists whose work deliberately incorporates alongside some kind of figuration the visual findings of abstraction (from Picasso to Matisse to Piper and Richards). It is of course the case that there are many ways in which geometric design, or artificial colour (heightened, say, or darkened, or exaggerated), or expressive brushwork and impasto, or chiaroscuro etc. − all by definition ‘abstract’ devices − are aspects of all kinds of figurative art throughout history. All art is in some sense an abstraction from observed actuality. This exhibition nonetheless, constitutes a significant moment for the gallery: for Graham Boyd was an artist who was utterly committed to pure abstraction, the first such artist to be ‘represented’ by Goldmark. Mel Gooding
