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Lisa Brice / Throwing the Floor / Paintings / 2012

10 March - 14 April 2012
Goodman Gallery, Cape Town

Goodman Gallery Cape is proud to present an exhibition of new paintings by Lisa Brice, produced over the course of the last two years in London and featured in Vitamin P2, Phaidon’s recently published anthology of painting. The paintings explore the possibilities and properties of vivid colour, how it is optically perceived, and the effects of the afterimage created by red-green vision in particular.

In her text on Brice’s work in Vitamin P2, Coline Millard notes: “Just as [Brice’s] painting hovers between figuration and abstraction, her figures occupy the limbo between the living and the dead. Brice’s work is all liminality.” While the liminality referred to by Millard in the Trinidad works of 2009 alludes to an inherent mysticism, the sense of liminality in this new body of paintings shifts to suggest a state of disorientation, delirium and suspended time through a heightened use of colour and reduced form.

Lisa Brice was born in Cape Town in 1968, and lives and works in London and Trinidad. Having worked in a variety of media, she has concentrated on painting for the last nine years. She has exhibited widely in South Africa and abroad, and her work is represented in major collections both public and private. Throwing the Floor is Brice’s first solo exhibition in Cape Town since 2007; she last presented work at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg in 2009. An extensive monograph of her paintings will be published later this year.

Artworks

Oil on primed canvas
61 x 76.5 x 2cm
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Ink, water soluble crayon and synthetic tempera on uprimed calico
125 x 95 x 2cm
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Ink, water soluble crayon and synthetic tempera on unprimed calico
125 x 95 x 2cm
Unavailable
Oil on paper on canvas stretcher
40.4 x 30.3 x 2cm
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Oil on mounted canvas board
20.5 x 25.5 x 2cm
Unavailable
Gesso, ink and synthetic tempera on primed cotton canvas
155 x 125 x 2cm
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Oil and wax on board
31.2 x 27 x 2cm
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Ink, water soluble crayon and synthetic tempera on unprimed calico
76 x 101 x 2cm
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Ink, water soluble crayon, acrylic and synthetic tempera on unprimed calico
95 x 125 x 2cm
Unavailable

About

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Lisa Brice

Lisa Brice (b.1968, Cape Town, South Africa) negotiates the precarious terrain of artistic production, as she moves between practices of spontaneous drawing and figure painting. She makes use of unexpected painting and printing techniques on a variety of surfaces, which include canvas and tracing paper. For Brice, the act of tracing often leads her to a repetition of similar motifs or figures in her work, sometimes biographical, and at other times art historical: ‘I am attracted to the idea of repetition,’ Brice remarks. ‘Chasing that high, stories told and retold.’

In 2006 Brice had her first solo exhibition of paintings at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, titled Night Vision, in which she reflected on the uncertainties of childhood. In 2009, a solo show, More Wood for the Fire, was presented at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg; the exhibition detailed Brice’s relationship with the island of Trinidad. In 2011, Brice’s work was included in the Vitamin P2 publication, Phaidon’s major anthology of international painting. In 2012, Brice presented a solo exhibition titled Throwing the Floor at Goodman Gallery in Cape Town. She has had subsequent shows at Goodman Gallery Johannesburg in 2015 titled Well Worn, and in June 2016 she was included on a show at Camden Art’s Centre in London Making & Unmaking curated by Duro Olowu. Brice had her first solo museum exhibition in the UK at the Tate Britain in 2018, where she exhibited large scale paintings which addressed the longstanding art-historical tradition of the female nude.

The artist lives and works in London, UK.

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