Feb 25

Feb 25 Art Out: Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Vik Muniz, UNIQUE at Atlas Gallery

.©Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen/ Two Families Sunbathing in Carville Road/Mason Street Backlane, Byker, 1975/ Courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery

Michael Hoppen | February 25, 2022 - March 25, 2022, by appointment only

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is a Finnish photographer who has lived in Britain since the 1960s. She was born in Finland in 1948 and came to study film in London in the 1960s, at the polytechnic in Regent Street. Together with some of her peers she founded the Amber Film and Photography Collective, with the purpose of creating and collecting work to represent marginalised communities and their disappearing landscapes. The group decided to move to Newcastle in 1969, to live and work in an industrial, working-class community. “We felt that the working class were not represented and if anything, were parodied rather than given a genuine voice,” Konttinen said.

Konttinen came upon the area Byker by chance, and immediately fell in love with it. This marked the beginning of her relationship with the local community there and the seminal photographs that she produced documenting local life over the next seven years.

To read more information about this exhibit, visit the Michael Hoppen Gallery’s website here.

Vik Muniz: Scraps | February 17, 2022 - April 9th, 2022

Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to present Scraps, a solo exhibition of new work by Vik Muniz.

Muniz’s newest body of work, entitled Scraps, developed from the use of textures in his previous Surfaces series and his interest in mosaic compositions. He begins his collage process by sourcing painted elements from his studio and assembling them into an abstracted mosaic, which is then photographed, printed, and cut up; the cut pieces are arranged and layered to form the new, final photographic image. The physical element of painting is thus subtracted from resulting art object, but is evoked visually through the cut prints. These multiple levels of dimensionality effect a dynamic sense of composition, and a sublime tension between part and whole.

To read more information about this exhibit, view Sikkema Jenkins & Co’s website here.

UNIQUE at Atlas Gallery | February 17, 2022 - April 9th, 2022

POLAROIDS, UNIQUE PRINTS, PHOTOGRAMS, CYANOTYPES AND EDITIONS OF 1 BY

To read more information about this exhibit, view the Atlas Gallery’s website here.