'Merge Visible' curated by Charley Peters.

A curated exhibition of paintings by invitation of the Contemporary British Painting group. The artists shown in Merge Visible do not execute their work using digital imaging techniques, but instead construct the pictorial experience in similar ways, bringing traditional painterly tropes into dialogue with our experiences of reading space, material and subject in the contemporary image world. The digital environment has influenced the way in which we understand pictorial conventions; the layered logic of Photoshop has affected our comprehension of colour, depth and volume, its painting tools our recognition of a distinct quality of line, and the multitude of windows visible on our computer screens at one time has normalised fragmented spatial composition – all of which relate to the formal considerations that lead to an artist’s application of paint to surface. In our cut-and-paste culture the combination of numerous painterly elements is both symbolic of an ever-generating visual environment and simultaneously transcends it, reinforcing the physical textures and haptic qualities of the painted surface as a contrast to the dematerialised space of the screen. The paintings included in Merge Visible are at once suggestive of our vast yet disembodied relationships with the image in the digital age, yet they remain manifestly ‘painterly’ in nature.

Exhibition artists: Lisa Denyer / Ian Goncharov / Phil IIlingworth / Sarah Longworth-West / Lee Marshall / Laurence Noga / Playpaint / Clare Price

Catalogue essay written by Charley Peters, 'Merge Visible: Contemporary British Painting through a Virtual Window.'

http://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/MV-catalogue-essay.pdf

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