Eddie Peake
dal 16/12/2011 al 2/2/2012
Segnalato da
16/12/2011
Eddie Peake
Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
Boydem. The poster/painting works presented in this show play with a contrast in the form, medium and content of the paintings and the prints, and as such, any link between the two elements has appeared to be incidental.
Mihai Nicodim Gallery is proud to present “Boydem” - the first solo show in the US of British artist
Eddie Peake (b. 1981).
Eddie Peake’s practice comprises a broad array of media including painting, photography,
sculpture, performance, video and installation, which can sometimes interplay with one another, or
they can exist individually. A general theme of nostalgia coupled with an ongoing narrative related
to Peake’s personal history, and its collisions with more broadly or culturally available histories,
weaves through his practice to varying degrees of visibility.
An important aspect of Eddie Peake’s practice is a fascination with language, or more specifically,
the discrepancy that occurs when one mode of language is translated into another, for instance
verbal language into visual language. This aspect of his practice does not necessarily come to the
fore in a visible sense, but it constantly governs his thoughts.
The poster/painting works presented in this show play with a contrast in the form, medium and
content of the paintings and the prints, and as such, any link between the two elements has
appeared to be incidental. The series of images used for the prints in “Boydem” mark a departure
from Peake’s previous work, in the sense that, for the first time, they are much more explicitly
doing the job of "framing" the paintings. The same male model, an artist friend of Peake’s, appears
in all the images, and positions his body in such a way that when a painting is eventually placed
over the print, it may be framed by an arm and a leg, or in the space between his spread-apart legs,
for example. The posters’ candid physical imagery is sugarcoated by the bright hues of his perfectly
crafted glossy oil paintings. The ambiguous political and psychological content behind them
inhabits a candy world of luminous, acidic colors, which exists within the artificial confines of
Peake’s painterly language.
Eddie Peake was born in London in 1981. He graduated from the Slade in 2006, was a 2008-09
scholar at the British School at Rome and is currently completing his Masters degree at the Royal
Academy, London. Recent solo exhibitions include The Loving Clutches of My Hands at Southard
Reid, London and History at Lorcan OʼNeill Gallery, Rome, as well as performances at V22
(Contrapposto Pause), Auto Italia Live (Huh!) and Paws, for Lucky PDF TV, at Barbican, London.
Group shows include Glaze curated by George Henry Longly at Bischoff Weiss, and Young London
at V22. He has a solo exhibition in March 2012 at Cell Project Space, London.
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 17, 2011, 6 - 9 PM
Mihai Nicodim Gallery
3143 S. La Cienega, Unit B - Los Angeles
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11 – 6 pm
Free admission