She Is My Clock

12 Feb-19 Mar 2022

PV 12 Feb 2022, 3-6pm

Ted Gahl, Lonely Outside, 2021, Acrylic, Moroccan pigments, graphite, colored pencil on canvas in artist’s frame

Overview

MAMOTH is thrilled to present ‘She is My Clock’, American artist Ted Gahl’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and first in London. Living and working in Connecticut, Gahl creates paintings with intuition, which draw from his imagination, personal image archive and art historical references.

In this new body of work, a predominant feature is the inclusion of cabinets, easels and screens in the compositions, a device that allows Gahl to create pictures within pictures. Bringing memory into conversation with fiction, as well as abstraction with figuration. Brushstrokes are contained and in cases compartmentalised by the hard formal definition of furniture and props. This could be seen as an attempt to exert control in a time of seeming wider dwindling control. These set pieces then function as stages, provoking a series of ethereal, otherworldly scenarios.

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Press

She Is My Clock | Press Release
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