Feature: Exhibition - Faces in the Crowd at Gallery Café
Published: 30 June, 2011
Ella Phillips paintings focus on the urban life – more specifically, living in London. The 27-year-old former Parliament Hill School pupil says: “London life can be both anonymous and intimate. The paintings force the spectator to experience both of these sensations; chasing a faceless figure through abstracted crowded locations and then coming face to face with a penetrating stare.” An exhibition of her work Faces in the Crowd opens at the Gallery Café at 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, E2, on Saturday and runs until August 10, Monday-Friday 9am-4pm, Saturday 11.30am- 4pm, free.
Meanwhile, at Camden Art Gallery in Chalk Farm Road, Greek contemporary artist Evi Photopoulos is showing her work “Burning Land”. She writes: “My country is an environment patient groaning for medicine. Greece is not only injured by the fire disasters in 2007-2009, our country is raped by ourself in more than a few and sophisticated ways.” Wednesday-Sunday 10am-6pm, free admission. Also showing is work from Julia Ji Sook Rho (France) and Veronica Villarino (Italy) until July 13. To see abstracts from Evi Photopoulos’s work online, go to www.2evi.gr