FORTHCOMING
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CROMWELL PLACE
Gallery 6
4 Cromwell Pl.
London
SW7 2JE
Private View: Tuesday 7 June, 5-8pm
Tiwani Contemporary is very pleased to present When Cosmologies Meet.
The exhibition is a manifestation of an ongoing conversation between gallery artist Andrew Pierre Hart and artist Alexandria Smith. Both artists bring their respective approaches and logics to worlding environments unbound from the limitations defining human experience as we recognise it. These environments perceive utopias that permit an expansion of sensory perception, experience, knowledge and kinship, enabling co-existence.
Alexandria Smith (US) is based in London. Her paintings and mixed-media works are led by her intuitive approach to drawing. These automatic renderings are selected and often worked up into vividly colourful, layered and sensual three-dimensional wood assemblage paintings. These works draw us in to encounter surrealistic vistas that are shaped by the creative and intellectual prowesses, and experiences of the black femme body.
Andrew Pierre Hart is based in the UK. His wide ranging practice explores rhythmic and spatial expressions, as a processing strategy for his concerns with bodily and spatial effect and engagement as individual and collective consciousness. The figures in Hart’s work are often in states of sonorous experimentation, and or contemplative modes of listening. Hart responds to the playlist he calls life to prospect a wide ranging field of referents to create new territories and kinships across an indefinable space time continuum.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Andrew Pierre Hart holds a MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2019) and BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts (2017). He is a recipient of the ArtAngel ‘Thinking Time’ Award (2020) and Tiffany & Co. x Outset Studiomakers Prize (2019).
Recent exhibitions include Secret of Lightness, Parafin, London (2022), ICF’s Diaspora Pavillon 2:London, Block 336, London (2022); Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Southbank Centre, London (2021); The Listening Sweet, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK (2021); Run the Box, A Solo Show by Andrew Hart, Guts Gallery, London (2020); Charmaine Watkiss & Andrew Pierre Hart: The Abstract Truth of Things, Tiwani Contemporary, London UK (2020); Collective Intimacies at Theaster Gates Black Image Corporation, 180 The Strand, London (2019); Royal College of Art Graduate Show (2019).
Alexandria Smith earned her BFA in Illustration from Syracuse University; MA in Art Education from New York University; and MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons The New School for Design. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Queens Museum/Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship, the Virginia A. Myers Fellowship at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. She has been awarded residencies including MacDowell, Bemis, Yaddo and LMCC Process Space.
Recent exhibitions include An Infinity of Traces, Lisson Gallery, London, UK (group - 2021); Social Works, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (group - 2021); Seed to Harvest, Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA (solo - 2019); Monuments to an Effigy, Queens Museum, NY (solo - 2019). Alexandria is currently Head of Painting at the Royal College of Art in London.
