AFP Galleries is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Anglo-Irish artist John Kingerlee.

The exhibition inaugurates a three-year tour of eleven U.S. museums that will feature Kingerlee’s work. The exhibitions will all present works from Kingerlee’s figurative, landscapes and grid series.

The figurative works include collages and heads. The collages, executed on paper, incorporate everyday objects such as postage stamps, pages of old novels and train tickets with drawn or painted figures throughout. The collages act as an impromptu diary where past and present collide. The heads are singular or groups of two or three and appear ravaged but human, phantomlike, yet elemental, as if composed of light and stone.

The landscapes and grids are painted in oil and built up in many layers, cemented to the surface through a process of throwing the board to the studio floor to create thick passages of paint. The end result is soothing and peaceful, yet the raised textured surface is reminiscent of Kingerlee’s Irish terrain of rocky, light filled landscapes. As a result, “the journey the eye takes through the painting is very similar to that of exploring a landscape on foot” (Bennington).

John Kingerlee was born in Birmingham, UK in 1936. His work can be found in numerous private and public collections throughout Europe and the United States. The exhibition is accompanied by KINGERLEE, by Jonathan Benington (280 pages, including 200 color plates). The show is in conjunction with Katharine T. Carter & Associates and Larry Powell Management.