THIRD ORDER

THIRD ORDER

April 2018

 

Agnieszka Katz Barlow  |  Sara Dare  |  Anna Liber Lewis  |  Karolina Albricht

 

Curated by Karolina Albricht

Unit 3 Projects, ASC Studios, Empson Street, E3 3LT

 

‘(…) we are familiar with things being either/or abstract or representational, but there is a third order out there (…)’  
Jack Whitten, “Jack Whitten: An African-American and Pollock” Painting After Pollock

Third Order focuses on recent works of four female artists who push, pull, tug and examine the boundaries of figuration and abstraction in contemporary painting. The exhibition is not rooted in all-governing ideas, but embraces the subtle ambiguity of working between the familiar and the unknown. Personal narratives are created through different working methods, subjects and paint specific understanding of shape, colour and texture. The artists, following their visceral urge, develop a dialogue based on underlying search for the equivocal form. Not settling for a chosen camp or dogmatic structures, Third Order upholds an honest and unguarded approach to painterly exploration.