Audrey Gair | I Love Tomorrow

South Parade is home to I Love Tomorrow, a solo exhibition by Audrey Gair, the artist’s first in London. Having completed a BFA Painting Major at Maryland Institute College of Art, Gair currently lives and works in New York.

Referencing diverse historical sources, spanning eras and genres of painting, Gair flattens them into one visual language. Every painting is a new puzzle for the Miami-born to take on. She intentionally arranges her background as foreground, while still building the paintings out from the canvas. The way paint behaves is crucial to her work; with drying time, thickness, and interaction between mediums, the material brings an enforced resting period. Methods of brush control, experimental collage, and composition are fine-tuned to support moments of strange novelty. She manipulates oil paint to mimic the materiality of dirt, markers, construction paper, tie-dye fabric, and a fence. Gair observes a freedom in the way people can make visual decisions and associations in their daily lives. She tries to harness this permissive attitude, subverting her own compulsions to surprise herself.

Audrey's work combines learned formal techniques with anti-style mark-making tendencies into a singular expression, making her creations about the craft and skill of painting – a love letter to the medium’s potential. 

Audrey Gair's I Love Tomorrow is open at South Parade, London until 27th April.