Seven Line Drawings (9 May - 13 June, 2008)
Picasso

Olivier Berggruen selected the drawings for the exhibition and contributed the essay introducing these rarely shown drawings in a limited-edition catalogue published by the gallery. Berggruen’s unexpected selection of seven line drawings, created over 66 years of Picasso’s life, reflects his sophisticated understanding of the artist’s relationship to his environment and the variety of mediums with which he worked... (continued)

A Portrait of the Dalai Lama (16 April - 3 May, 2008)
Robert McCurdy

McCurdy's skillfully executed paintings, belonging to his series of portraits begun in 1997, distill the viewer’s traditional response before a portrait. The subject of his paintings is the gaze, not the portrait’s sitters, who in recent years have included internationally recognized figures such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison, Neil Armstrong, and Nelson Mandela... (continued)

manquerate: act 1 (27 September - 3 November, 2007)
Mansita Walu Diawara

For this exhibition, drawing from the French words manquer, frustrated in realizing an ambition and rater, to fail to satisfy, Diawara explores and dismantles the idea of truth that is associated with the photographic image, which in turn is informed by an assortment of auditory, visual, and literary references... (continued)

Other Men's Flowers (19 June - 11 August, 2007)

This project was initiated by Joshua Compston/Factual Nonsense, who chose the title in memory of Viscount Wavell’s anthology of the same name, originally published as a tribute to the relationship between art and war. The exhibition includes a work by each of the following artists: Henry Bond, Stuart Brisley, Don Brown, Helen Chadwick, Mat Collishaw, Itali Doron, Tracey Emin, Angus Fairhurst, Liam Gillick, Andrew Herman, Gary Hume, Sarah Staton, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gavin Turk, and Max Wigram... (continued)

Space Oddity (22 March - 28 April, 2007)
Margo Victor

Victor works in a wide range of media including 16 and 35 mm film as well as painting, photography and drawing. Victor’s minimal and non-conclusion oriented work in film celebrates the alternative, with regard to the positions of power that women must create within society... (continued)