Rapture series prints

 

Four pieces from the Rapture series are now available as prints exclusively from inPRNT: www.inprnt.com/gallery/james_roper/

These are gallery-quality giclée prints on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks.

Limited edition of 100. Each print is 18 x 12 inches (1 inch border). $30 each.

'All and Nothing' (solo show) at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York

Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition with UK based artist James Roper. This will be Roper's first solo exhibition with Joshua Liner Gallery as well as Roper's solo debut in New York. 'All and Nothing' (Gallery II) will consist of new acrylic on canvas paintings and several new works on paper. Among the acrylic on canvas paintings is Roper's newest series of works entitled 'Exvoluta'. The "characters" depicted in this series embody diety-like forms influenced by the imagery of Hindu gods, Christian saints, and comic-book Superheroes, all rendered in glorious material excess beyond the reach of the natural. The opening reception will also be on Thursday, April 14th from 6 - 9pm.

Please contact the gallery for additional information.

Joshua Liner Gallery
548 W 28th St. 3rd Floor
New York, New York 10001
212-244-7415
joshualinergallery.com

SUPERUNKNOWN at Edel Assanti

Superunknown
Curated by Andy Wicks & David Northedge

Artists
David Small, Ed Payne, Gordon Cheung, Graham McNamara, James Roper, Matthew Atkinson, Michael Ashcroft, Rob Sherwood, Rosalie Wiesner, Sayshun Jay.

Private View
Wednesday 6th October 7 - 9pm

Exhibition Dates
Thursday 7th October - Saturday 13th November

Gallery Hours
Wednesday - Saturday 12pm - 6pm or by appointment

Address - Edel Assanti, 276 Vauxhall Bridge Road, Victoria, London, SW1V 1BB


Edel Assanti is proud to present Superunknown, an exhibition curated by Andy Wicks and David Northedge.

Literature and Hollywood have long been creating dark and empty visions of near future societies in decline. In the present day, materials addressing this subject matter have once again found their way onto reading lists and cinema screens, forming a focal point for contemporary popular culture.

Projections of our universal future are often delivered in cautionary tones and serve as warning of how to avoid the total decimation of society. Notional futures of grim decaying interiors and bleak grey landscapes populated by savage inhabitants are the cultural benchmark for a morbid moribund world limping towards apocalypse.

Superunknown is a group show of twelve artists who produce work that addresses a future full of dreams, illusions and fantasies, celebrating the neglected virtues of the glossy, lurid and bizarre. The combined works on show articulate a hallucinatory collective vision of a future in which illicit vices serve as the connective tissues for a population wheeling recklessly onwards with a stoic apathy toward redemption and self-preservation.

This group show is formed predominately of painters whose work share a common aesthetic of semi abstraction and contemporary landscape. The exhibition also features photography, video, sculpture and installation based works.

http://edelassanti.com/exhibitiondetails.php?ID=90

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147677701934841

Summer Group Exhibition at Joshua Liner Gallery

Summer Group Exhibition

14th August to 2nd September, 2010

Private view: Saturday 14th August, 6-9pm

Joshua Liner Gallery
548 W. 28th Street
3rd Floor
New York NY 10001
212.244.7415

joshualinergallery.com

Art on the Edge: The New Contemporary

Art on the Edge: The New Contemporary (group show)

Wednesday, July 7th – Tuesday, July 27th

Vered gallery
68 Park Place
East Hampton
NY 11937-2407

www.veredart.com

New work

New paintings and drawings on my website, including seven new Rapture pieces.

'Paroxysm' (solo show) at ®artspace Barcelona

Paroxysm (solo show): 18.05.2010 - 17.06.2010

®artspace Barcelona
Carrer Girona 61 Local 02,
Eixample. 08009 Barcelona. Spain.
+34 934 673 598

www.rojo-magazine.com/bcn


"By constructing abstract bodies formed from multiple elements these works mimic the complex bodily structures found within nature. Biological machines such as the human body process and retain energy and any processes placed under restraint will result in an intensification of it's eventual release. The work attempts to portray this intermediate state as control gives way to chaotic abandon and a transition occurs from one state to the next. Roper is heavily influenced by the excessive and sensuously rich imagery of Baroque art and it's depiction of the unfettering of religious restraint. Instead of the gentle ushering of the spirit towards the heavens his paintings spit, ejaculate, regurgitate and projectile vomit the spirit out, rejecting it's bodily form in a fit of maniacal hysterics, a nonsensical reflexive outburst like the spasmodic speaking in tongues of those 'slain in the spirit'."

Caged Bird Sings

Caged Bird Sings (group show): 15th - 20th April

Crypt Gallery
Saint Pancras Church
Euston Road
London
NW1 2BA

Bare/not Projects present Caged Bird Sings, an exhibition in the atmospheric Crypt Gallery in St Pancras.

We have fifteen artists participating: James Roper, Klarita Pandolfi, Dorothy Yoon, Jo Young, Paul Dawes, Daisy McMullan, Luigi Menichelli, Taciana Coimbra, Antonio Pagani, Tom Lovelace, Reme Campos, Brixton Punk (Andrew Graves Johnston), Stella O and Kika Nicolela

Our opening night is on 15th April, there will be free drinks and a DJ in the Crypt.

For more info visit: barenot.wordpress.com

www.cryptgallery.org.uk

Natural Wonders

"LeBasse Projects warmly welcomes Jeremy Asher Lynch, James Roper and Kevin E. Taylor to the gallery for a three person show of new work. Though very different in their approach all three artists bring us their outlook on the changing environment and world around us.

UK based James Roper's work explores a variety of subjects including the restraint and release of energy found within complex structures such as the human body. Florida native Jeremy Asher Lynch's mixed media works often juxtapose both illustrative and abstract techniques while creating beautiful paintings which often carry a darker subtext. Kevin E. Taylor comes to the gallery from San Francisco where he has been working on a series of paintings that force the viewer to re-examine the relationship between man and the natural world around him."

'Natural Wonders'
Jeremy Lynch, Kevin E. Taylor, James Roper
Friday, November 13th, 7-10pm

www.lebasseprojects.com

For more info or preview, please contact the gallery at:
contact@lebasseprojects.com or 310.558.0200

Quinquennium Exhibitum

I will be showing new work in Nucleus gallery's 5 Year Anniversary Exhibition. November 7 - 30, 2009
Opening Reception: Nov 7, 7:00pm - 11:00pm

Nucleus
210, East Main Street
Alhambra, CA 91801
www.gallerynucleus.com

www.gallerynucleus.com/artist/james_roper

Beyond Eden Art Fair

LeBasse Projects will be showing four new pieces in the Rapture series at the Beyond Eden Art Fair, a multi-gallery event celebrating the new contemporary art scene in Los Angeles. Beyond Eden will showcase the works of over 15 galleries and will be held inside the beautiful confines of the historic Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery during the weekend of October 9th, 10th and 11th, with an opening night celebration planned for Saturday, October 10th.

www.beyondedenartfair.com

www.lebasseprojects.com

Previous Rapture pieces are still available via www.rojo-magazine.com/artstore

Culver City Artwalk

I will have work on show at LeBasse Projects for the Culver City Artwalk.

Saturday, May 30th 2009, Noon - 8pm.

www.lebasseprojects.com

PRESS RELEASE

OCHO group show

In the first collaboration project between nine member galleries of the ®artspace global network more than 140 artists will be showing in nine group shows in nine different cities around the world: ®Barcelona, ®Milano, POP Sao Paulo, ClubBlast Rosario, Concrete Hermit London, We Love Asbaek Copenhagen, Inoperable Vienna, Carmichael Los Angeles & Subaquatica Madrid.

ROJO® is also publishing a limited edition ROJO® issue featuring works by a selection of artists showing in the global group show.

I will be showing pieces from the Rapture series in the following shows:
®artspace Barcelona: 18 March 2009 - 30 April 2009
®artspace Milano: 12 March 2009 - 15 April 2009

The limited edition ROJO®ocho book is available on the ROJO® shop
The Rapture pieces on show are available to purchase on the ROJO® artstore

London Art Fair 2009

FORSTER will have two new drawings at the London Art Fair 2009 - Business Design Centre, Islington - 14th - 18th January 2009. Stand G45 on the balcony level (at the rear, on the right)

'Into the Fold' at Forster

Into the Fold (solo show): 7 November - 20 December 2008

FORSTER
1 Chapel Place
Rivington Street
London
EC2A 3DQ

+44 (0)20 7739 7572
info@forstergallery.com

press release:

FORSTER is proud to present James Roper’s forthcoming solo show, ‘Into The Fold’, a much anticipated collection of stunning new paintings and a site-specific installation in his first exhibition at the gallery.

Roper draws upon his own library of photographs as a foundation for his striking paintings, whilst also obsessively trawling and utilizing a plethora of visual material found on the internet, including fashion, animation, and advertising. Each of the artist’s paintings result from his re-digestion and translation of these collected pictorial tools, with his superior use of paint.

‘I predominantly choose images and try to create forms which I feel register a visual 'peak shift', a term given to the phenomena of 'neurological attraction' that appears in both humans and animals to an extreme characterization of an object.’ – James Roper

This ‘peakshift’ is core to the artists work. Present within advertising, Hollywood blockbusters, haute couture fashion, as well as in extreme forms of body exaggeration such as bodybuilding and pornography, the artist extracts the key element of the image, that causes such heightened visual excitement. By isolating ‘peakshift’ images and merging them through collage, the intention is to intensify the visual triggers so that they form a sort of neurological hyperactivity.

In addition to contemporary source material, James Roper’s work has been heavily influenced by Catholic imagery from the Baroque period and he specifically sites Bernini - the exaggerated depiction of texture, flesh and folds in robes and cloth as key source of inspiration.

"I see the fold of things through the dust they stir up, and whose folds I cast aside. I do not see into God, but I do see into the folds." Deleuze – The Fold

The excessive use of pleats in the artists work surround the viewer as if they are housed within this lavish world of colour and texture. They themselves are engulfed by these surfaces and become part of the folds that are beyond the canvas but are indeed hinted at. The sublime titles of the paintings point towards an otherworldly suggestion of infinity or the constant shift of perception and understanding of space, time and quantity. We have to ask what is it that we are looking for – an answer, solution, reason or cause? Surely the best option is to enjoy this visual feast laid before us, and submerge ourselves into the fold?

Since completing his BA (Hons) in Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2005 James Roper has exhibited widely across the UK and has been featured in such publications as Belio Magazine and Dazed and Confused. Roper is currently art directing a short film he co-wrote that won funding from NorthWest Vision and Media as part of their Virgin Shorts 2008.
For further information and images please contact Suzanne at the gallery on +44 (0)20 7739 7572 or Suzanne@forstergallery.com