VIGO GALLERY
LONDON
Johnny Abrahams (b. 1979), Untitled, 2022
Oil on canvas
213.4 x 121.9 cm
Price: £28,000 (plus any applicable taxes)
Johnny Abrahams lives and works in London and New York. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally, in the US, Korea, Denmark and Belgium. The symbols within Abrahams’ practice exist under a certain formalism, the different planes conveying near- musical patterns, oscillating between comfort and dissonance to form melodic variants. The forms within the compositions and the variations between individual paintings are experienced in the way microtones are experienced by a musician using a twelve-tone scale. The shapes seem familiar yet slightly askew, creating tension and drama through the disruption of self-imposed structures. Thinking through this rhythm and phasing, the artist continues his exploration of balance without symmetry.
Selected solo exhibitions include Dogs Dinner, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York (2023); You and I Are Earth, Vigo Gallery, London (2022); The natural solace of labor, Sunday-s, Copenhagen (2022); After Hyacinth After Anemone, Vigo Gallery, London (2021); Red weakens an hour, Jack Hanley, East Hampton (2021); In the divinely human state of nobodiness, Jack Hanley, New York (2021); A sprint for the idler, Romer Young, San Francisco (2021); I am the tortoise but also the cat and the dog, Vigo Gallery, London, 2018; and Interference, Vigo Gallery, London, 2013.
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vigogallery.comFounded in 2011, Vigo gallery represents emerging and established international artists, curating shows in both the public and private arenas as well as placing numerous historic and contemporary works into the collections of prominent museums and foundations. We have placed almost two hundred works in institutions over the last thirteen years, including TATE Modern, The British Museum, MoMA, The Ashmolean Museum, Sharjah Art Foundation, The Arts Council, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi and The Metropolitan Museum. Exhibitions have been organised with institutions ranging from Somerset House, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, San Francisco City Hall, The Prince Claus Foundation, City of Prague Gallery, Hastings Contemporary, Smithson Plaza, The Drawing Centre NY, Kunstalle Zurich, Tegnerforbundet and Wellington Arch.
In addition to our contemporary focus and primary program, the gallery also shines light on historically significant yet often undervalued artists with strong museum and curatorial followings. We have a developed long-term interest in the African diaspora and African American artists although our program is international working with artists and estates from Belgium, Russia, America, Australia and Japan alongside our British contingent. Amongst others, our represented artists include Ibrahim El-Salahi, Lakwena Maciver, Jordy Kerwick, Henrik Godsk, Jenny Watson, Johnny Abrahams, Jamaal Peterman and James Drinkwater.
