LONDON-based emerging art platform Strike Art is moving from URL to IRL with the announcement of their debut exhibition with Gallery46, titled Through the Turnstiles. Taking their aim of supporting and establishing young artists, their inaugural show reflects this ethos as the works of Amanda Seibæk, Bomi Kim, Darren Lynde Mann and Sage Schachter take centre stage in East London.
Using the literal premise of a turnstile as inspiration, Strike Art seeks to triumph their associated artists through a lack of creative restriction allowing them to create freely, not having to change their aesthetic or vision as they enter this new environment.
Danish painter Amanda Seibæk’s defining aesthetic of bringing her scientific understanding of natural phenomenas into her creative outlet, results in abstract pieces that blur the lines between fact and fiction. While South Korean Bomi Kim’s work is informed by her fascination with water creating paintings that are crafted through strokes of paint mirroring the movement of this element, as figures and objects appear submerged.
Amanda Seibæk, Solstice 1
Bomi Kim, Prawn Cocktail Love
Suffolk-based Darren Lynde Mann translates the importances of figurines and faces in Renaissance art and implements them into canvases of light colour presenting art fuelled by emotion. Lastly, the fourth artist is British American Sage Schachter, who seeks to highlight and question the absurd nature of today’s society and culture through caricature portrayals using a variety of outlets such as oil and acrylic, ceramic work and resin.
Darren Lynde Mann, Stood Like Soldiers
Sage Schachter, Vacant-Eyed Stranger
With no steadfast guidelines for the artists, Through the Turnstiles promises to be an exhibition that continually immerses viewers into different viewpoints. Not only is the lack of theme an exciting foray into a new type of exhibition, but all four artists spotlighted by Strike Art are 25 years-old and younger, cementing the words inaugural, modern and promising in all directions of what this 10 day exhibit hopes to offer.
by Imogen Clark
Through the Turnstiles will be open from 19-29 January 2023
46 Ashfield Street, London, E1 2AJ