Eric Bainbridge | Joel Kyack

Workplace Gallery is proud to present a two-person exhibition of British artist Eric Bainbridge and Los Angeles based artist Joel Kyack. For this exhibition Bainbridge will present a new body of paintings made from synthetic fur fabric, and Kyack will present a new body of sculpture and painting shown in London for the first time.

Through subtle interplay of colour and texture, Eric Bainbridge has created a new body of paintings made from his signature material – synthetic fur fabric. Composed of applied off-cut shapes of faux-fur these paintings pose enigmatic and duplicitous explorations: the pragmatic directness of material properties (to cut, to stretch, to wrap, to patch) and pictorial invocations of spatial depth or figuration. The paucity of gesture employed by Bainbridge invites sustained consideration. Whilst the hyper-artificiality of the fur fabric simultaneously implies luxury and an aspirational escape towards it, these new paintings, as is typical of Bainbridge’s work, move beyond their formal conditions to speak of the socio-political currents that lie, camouflaged, beneath their apparent semiotic assertions.