The Skin I’m In – Guest artists
July 7, 2010
Hey folks!
I’ve finalized my guest list for my new Summer Show, The Skin I’m In, which opens at The Crypt Gallery (@ St Pancras Church) this August. I’m so excited as this is bound to be a truly stupendous exhibition! See for yourself below:
Painters:
– Agnes Eve: will be showing her wonderful strong yet intimate, semi-abstract landscapes – ‘The substratum for my paintings comes from Nature. Nature takes the leadership in creating. It is a constant, unstoppable process of formation within creation and has been progressing since the Big Bang. My role is to extract it from the whole and transfer it to my work.” (www.agneseve.com)
– Jo Wilmot: Presents all new oils based on concepts of glamour – “I’m interested in the way shiny newness becomes tarnished, in how fast a longed for item or experience switches from desirable to bland. We live in a culture of glossy images, objects and items and we are led to believe that the next purchase or cocktail will make us complete.” (www.jowilmot.com)
Installation :
– Eugene Ankomah: Will be re-creating an installation and video based on a previous performance, ‘Tribal Dance’ – “My work often mixes cultural imagery and symbolism from my African background coupled with images from popular culture combined with experimental ways of approaching my various themes I aim to comment socially, politically, culturally, emotionally and personally. I reveal to hide and hide to expose.” (www.myspace.co.uk/uegeneankomah)
Yours Truly,
Charlie Pi
Embrace the Mistake.
June 21, 2010
Plan for Mural
In a recent radio broadcast I heard that Islamic weavers would create a deliberate mistake in the patterns on their elaborate rugs, because, ‘Only God is Perfect.’
What I enjoy in looking at sketches, preliminary drawings and plans is the corrections; things altered, moved, changed in colour or scale with traces of the original supplanted by the new. Working on paper I can literally cut and paste, rub out , paint over without having to create a perfect product. These alterations or corrections become an integral part of the finished drawing, they are no longer mistakes but are embraced in the finished work.
In the picture above I present alternative colour schemes for both background and for the figures themselves. Other alternatives are presented below as colour patches as in paint supply catalogues.
In offering alternative colours for the figure I am also examining how the presentation of black people is manipulated in the media to add interest or bias to stories
The Skin I’m In – Preview (Part IV)
June 20, 2010
Ecce Homo – Mixed Media on Paper
From The Skin I’m In
Ecce Homo
The Skin I’m In – Preview (Part III)
June 20, 2010
Consider The Lillies – Mixed Media on Paper
From The Skin I’m In
The Skin I’m In is Charlie Pi’s new exhibition since last year’s successful summer show @ St Pancras Church. Charlie Pi returns this year to The Crypt Gallery with a series of large works on paper which take the form of children’s nursery rhyme illustration, plans, sketches, storyboards, illustrations, comics and text made large. As Charlie says, ‘Not precursors but finished works in their own right”. Indeed, using paper as a free space to examine both theme and the process of illustration has taken Charlie’s signature baroque paintings to another dimension where iconographies of beautiful young black men have become a mixture of mixed gendered subjects set in multi-image polyptich.
The Skin I’m In, The Crypt Gallery @ St Pancras Church
11th – 30th August 2010, 12.00 – 18.00 (Tuesday to Sunday)
Opening Night – Wednesday 11th August, 18.30 – 20.30
FFI – www.cryptgallery.org.uk
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The Skin I’m In – Preview (Part II)
May 7, 2010
I’m A Dancer (Port de Bras) – (Mixed Media on Paper)
From the Skin I’m In
The Skin I’m In – Preview (Part I)
May 7, 2010
Squirrel Hunting by Candlelight – (Mixed media on Paper)
From The Skin I’m In
Charlie Pi in studio 