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Frameless Gallery, London and Merzbau Gallery, Miami present Irreverence - Tom Leamon’s first solo exhibition in the United States. On offer is a collection of paintings spanning the last 5 years, works which are both thought-provoking and playful. They are experiments into the deconstruction of the human form, on both a physical and psychological level.
Rooted in mark-making, symbolism, poetry / story-telling and illustration, Leamon’s works often combine meticulous detail with raw abstract painterly gestures. The artist uses painting as a release, and in a quasi-monastic fashion, Leamon locks himself in his studio for long periods of time working and reworking the surface of the canvas. With complete freedom and an enduring willingness to explore, his impulsive, almost childlike painting techniques represent both playtime and profound meditation.
Pixelated faceted figures give a nod to Picasso’s Harlequin, crowns, poison bottles and skulls echo Basquiat’s graffiti while works like The Search for The Emerald City and Mixing the Remedy feel almost like Aztec relics, re-imagined frescoes of a bygone era.
The exhibition takes the viewer on a compelling journey into the dark depths of the human psyche, it contorts one’s senses and leaves the viewer with an overwhelming thirst to peal back one more layer of paint and discover more.
TOM LEAMON
2015 - Group exhibition Whispers | Ronchini Gallery, London
2015 - Group exhibition The Behaviour of Being | Cob Gallery, London
2015 - Group exhibition States of Matter | Blacks Soho, London
2014 - Group exhibition DE-Pict | Nosco / Frameless, London
2014 - Solo project The Truscott Arts Programme, Maida Vale, London
2013 - Group exhibition Intimate | Nosco / Frameless, London
2013 - Solo exhibition Les Aventures A Venir | Frameless Gallery. London
2013 - Publication of book Contemporary Religion
2013 - Solo exhibition The Clock Shop | Gallery 223, London
2013 - Group exhibition Pleasant Remains | Gallery 223, London
2013 - Solo exhibition Back to Nature | Cave, London
2012 - Group exhibition And You What Do You Worship? | The Crypt Euston Road, London
2011 – Group exhibition One Night Stand & Dressed For Breakfast | Cave, London
2009 - First Solo exhibition at the Rag Factory
2005 - Launch of 'The Lip Man Virus' art collective. Over the next two years the collective takes over a number of disused and commercial buildings all over London and organizes Pop Up Exhibitions
2004 - Bursary Award, Red Cow Art Studios for developing new work, Bermondsey, London
2003 - BA in Fine Art, Loughborough University, UK
MERZBAU GALLERY
2301 NORTH MIAMI AVENUE
MIAMI, FL 33127 USA