Past
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Tides
Kasmin Gallery 31 October - 20 December 2024 Ian Davenport, Tides, Kasmin Ian Davenport relishes the intense pull of gravity. Throughout his career, the British artist has encouraged paint to flow and drip down the length of his vast canvases, often rushing to the floor in lively swirls. For ‘Tides’, a solo exhibition of new paintings and works... Explore -
Pathway
Cristea Roberts Gallery 13 September - 19 October 2024 Cristea Roberts Gallery is delighted to present Pathway, a solo exhibition of prints and works on paper by Ian Davenport. The prints are in a variety of scales, some made using a combination of up to forty colours. They are exhibited alongside Davenport’s largest ever work on paper, measuring almost... Explore -
True Colours
Kunstmuseum Den Haag 1 June - 29 September 2024 True Colors - AkzoNobel Art Foundation at Kunstmuseum Den Haag shows an exciting mix of work from different generations and disciplines. Young international talents stand side by side with renowned artists, in complementary combinations, telling a powerful and colorful story, both literally and metaphorically. A narrative deeply rooted in art... Explore -
Lake
Waddington Custot 6 October - 11 November 2023 Opening this autumn, a new exhibition by British painter Ian Davenport (b. 1966, Sidcup, Kent) includes the artist’s largest ever wall to floor installation, alongside new and recent work. Two immense paintings installed in the heart of the gallery, Lake 1 and Lake 2 feature lines of poured paint that... Explore -
Works on Paper
Burton at Bideford 16 September - 3 November 2023 A selection of works on paper from different period's of Ian's prace over the last 30 years. On show until 3rd November at the Burton Museum. It has been an opportunity to review Ian's practice and triggered a new undetstanding for his pathway forwards. Most of the artworks in this exhibition have never been seen publicy before. Explore -
Poured Staircase
The Tide, Greenwich Peninsular 28 June 2023 - 2 June 2024 Through ‘Poured Staircase’, Davenport has created an immersive river of colour that cascades down The Tide staircase in parallel stripes. Davenport is well known for his abstract paintings, which explore process and materiality. The force of the elements such as gravity are important themes in his artwork. In recent years,... Explore -
Summer Exhibition
Carling Dalenson 4 May - 2 July 2023 May 4, 2022 - Jul 2, 2022 Stockholm The Summer Exhibition includes work from Robert Rauschenberg, Ian Davenport, Michael Craig-Martin, James(Jamie) Nares and Elliott Puckette. Carling Dalenson Sibyllegatan 49 11442 Stockholm Sweden For more details visit: https://www.carlingdalenson.com/summer-exhibition-show Image courtesy of Prudence Cuming and Ian Davenport Studio. Explore -
Signal
Custot Gallery Dubai 28 February - 8 April 2023 Opening on the 28th of February, Signal is the first exhibition that Davenport has dedicated to his works on paper. Whilst many of Davenport’s works usually feature lines of colour poured sequentially from left to right or vice versa, these works provide something more percussive and compositionally spontaneous. When lockdown... Explore -
Modern and Contemporary
Waddington Custot 3 February - 15 April 2023 In this exhibition, Waddington Custot will show the breadth of its programme with contemporary works by the gallery's artists sitting in dialogue with 20th Century masterpieces. Explore -
Sediment
Slewe Gallery 27 January - 25 February 2023 Sediment, a group show with works by Alan Charlton, Schorbach, Caro Jost, Dan Walsh, Domenico Bianchi, Ian Davenport, Karin Sander, Lesly Foxcroft, Martina Klein, Nunzio, Roos Theuws and Ruud Kuijer The use of materials, such as iron, zinc, copper, palladium, lead, pigments, leaves and gravel, form a loose association with... Explore -
Mirrors
Luca Tommasi 26 November 2022 - 28 January 2023 Ian Davenport returns to Milan with a solo exhibition entitled 'Mirrors' which brings together an unprecedented series of paintings on aluminum and works on paper. For his new exhibition, the artist has worked on the concepts of reflection and symmetry, creating vibrant pictorial surfaces where rhythmic drippings merge into seductive pools of color at the bottom of the painting. Explore -
Mirrors and Lights
Galerie Andres Thalmann 3 June - 16 July 2022 Bright, powerful lines of paint flow down an aluminium sheet in long vertical trails, creating a clean, dynamic pattern. The bottom edge of the aluminium “canvas” is slightly curved, allowing the colours to spread out here, intermingling and forming psychedelic puddles – and hence the images get their name: Puddle... Explore -
Crazy
Chiostro del Bramante 18 February 2022 - 8 January 2023 19.02.2022 – 08.01.2023 'Crazy' exhibition at the Chiostro Del Bramante curated by Danilo Eccher. The exhibition includes 21 artists Carlos Amorales, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter, Massimo Bartolini, Gianni Colombo, Petah Coyne, Ian Davenport, Janet Echelman, Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns and Austin Young, Lucio Fontana, Anne Hardy, Thomas Hirschhorn,... Explore -
British Abstraction
Gazelli Art House 7 September - 2 October 2021 The group show includes Ian Davenport, Gillian Ayres, John Hoyland, Albert Irvin and Bridget Riley. Explore -
Colourspace
Mucciaccia Gallery 20 May - 31 July 2021 Ian Davenport, David Batchelor, Fiona Rae, Jim Lambie, Lothar Gotz, Annie Morris. Explore -
Sequence
Kasmin Gallery 20 November 2020 - 9 January 2021 Sequence brings together large-scale paintings spanning two series, several of which have been made by the artist in his studio in London, UK, during the months of lockdown. View the exhibition online here. For more information, please contact info@kasmingallery.com . For press requests, please contact press@kasmingallery.com . Above text courtesy... Explore -
NEW WORK: Ian Davenport
Waddington Custot Gallery 26 May - 14 August 2020 NEW WORK: Ian Davenport, the first iteration of Waddington Custot's digital solo exhibition series, is open to explore online. Link to online viewing room: https://waddingtoncustot.viewingrooms.com/viewing-room/1/ The exhibition features four 'Puddle Paintings', which continue the artist's celebrated exploration of colour. Central to Davenport's practice is his choice of palette and unconventional... Explore -
Chromatic
Cristea Roberts Gallery 8 January - 8 February 2020 The Cristea Roberts Gallery will unveil a major new body of etchings and monoprints by Ian Davenport (b.1966) which explore complex arrangements of colours inspired by changing seasons and quotidian light effects. Davenport, who is well known for his abstract paintings, which consist of carefully poured lines that puddle... Explore -
Frieze week - Flannels, W1Curates
Flannels 16 October - 29 November 2019 A collaboration during Frieze week with W1Curates which ran concurrently with 'The Interaction of Colour' at Cristea Roberts Gallery for a month. To see other videos please click here. Thank you to MD Design for the videos. Explore -
Synesthesia
Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea 11 September - 30 October 2019 Luca Tommasi is pleased to announce, Synesthesia, a solo exhibition by Ian Davenport to be held in the spaces of Via Cola Montano, 40, in Milan. At the heart of the exhibition will be an imposing wall painting measuring over 3 metres high and 5 metres wide. Created by the... Explore -
The Interaction of Colour
Cristea Roberts Gallery 7 September - 26 October 2019 In 1963 Josef Albers (1888 - 1976) published one of the most influential art and design books of the twentieth century, Interaction of Color, as a handbook and teaching aid for his experimental way of observing, studying and teaching colour. It was the culmination of his groundbreaking courses first begun... Explore -
Horizons
Dallas Contemporary 30 September 2018 - 15 March 2019 Dallas Contemporary is pleased to present a major solo exhibition with new works by British contemporary artist Ian Davenport for the upcoming season. Curated by the museum’s executive director, Peter Doroshenko, the exhibition will feature pieces from the artist’s latest body of work alongside a selection of paintings created over... Explore -
Colourscapes
Waddington Custot 20 September - 8 November 2018 Waddington Custot is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by British artist Ian Davenport, shown in the UK for the first time. The works presented in the exhibition further extend Davenport’s career-long investigation of chance, colour and the innate qualities of paint. For the first time, works on... Explore -
New Works on Paper
Slewe Gallery 13 January - 24 February 2018 Slewe Gallery is pleased to present new works on paper by British artist Ian Davenport. The exhibition opens Saturday January 13 and will run until February 24. For his fourth exhibition at Slewe Gallery, Davenport will show a new series of large colour etchings on paper, which he made in... Explore -
Cascade
Custot Gallery Dubai 5 November 2017 - 3 March 2018 After the great success of Ian Davenport’s first solo exhibition in Dubai, ‘Cascade’, Custot Gallery Dubai is pleased to announce the extension of the show until March 3, 2018. The exhibition presents sixteen new works, which develop Davenport’s rigorous investigation into colour relationships and the painting process. Davenport’s meticulous... Explore -
Melismatic
Cristea Roberts Gallery 8 June - 31 July 2017 The Cristea Roberts Gallery will unveil a major new body of etchings and monoprints by Ian Davenport (b.1966), YBA and graduate of Goldsmiths College of Art, London. Davenport, who is driven by an enduring fascination with the materiality and process of painting and printmaking, has made a series of monumental... Explore -
Giardini Colourfall
Venice Biennale Arte Vive Art 18 February - 26 November 2017 On display at The Swatch Pavilion, for the duration for the Venice Biennale, is one of the largest, site-specific installations ever produced by British artist Ian Davenport. Located in the Venice Giardini, the monumental painting, ‘Giardini Colourfall’, is inspired by the chromatic palette of historical masterpieces by Gustav Klimt, Claude... Explore -
Doubletake
Kasmin Gallery 8 September - 22 October 2016 Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present Doubletake, an exhibition of new paintings by the British artist Ian Davenport, on view from September 8 – October 22, 2016 at 293 Tenth Avenue in New York. This will be his first solo show at the gallery since 2013. In Doubletake, Davenport explores... Explore -
Cadence
Galerie Andres Thalmann 15 April - 16 July 2016 Stripes are Ian Davenport’s trademark. Multi-coloured stripes that vibrate with energy and intensity. Contiguous vertical stripes that run down the pictorial plane. However his stripes are more than simple lines of colour, and his large paintings hugely dramatic. Standing in front of them, we can see them shimmer and flutter.... Explore -
Dan Galeria
Dan Galeria 23 May - 27 June 2015 One of the most important artists of the Young British Artists generation, which emerged in the late 1980s, Ian Davenport (London, 1966), will have his first solo show in Brazil from May 23rd at Dan Galeria. The exhibition brings together 18 works from 1992 to 2015, including the new Color:... Explore -
Right Now!
Mission Gallery 25 April - 7 June 2015 Taking its title from the opening lines of the Sex Pistols' Anarchy in the UK, Right Now! is an exhibition which brings together again a group of Goldsmith's graduates who, in 1988, presented a show titled Current at Mission Gallery. The invitation from Mission Gallery to revisit this event is... Explore -
Pace Prints
Pace Prints 3 April - 2 May 2015 Pace Prints presents an exhibition of new monoprints and editions by Ian Davenport, on view at its 32 East 57th Street gallery, April 3—May 2, 2015. Davenport’s first solo exhibition at Pace Prints will feature monoprints and color etchings with chine-collé. By employing gravity to manipulate printmaking grounds, these graphic... Explore -
Colourfall
Waddington Custot Galleries 11 June - 12 July 2014 Waddington Custot Galleries presents IAN DAVENPORT: COLOURFALL. Featuring recent paintings as well as examples from the last 25 years, this exhibition is timed to coincide with the publication of a major monograph on the artist's work by Thames & Hudson. The exhibition will showcase the vertically striped works that are... Explore -
The Turner Prize
Tate Britain 6 November - 8 December 1991 Explore