Ptolemy Mann

Nordic Painting (The Look of Love)

Year 2023
Medium Acrylic, gouache and liquid watercolour pigment on Arones paper
Dimensions 31 x 23 cm

About the work

This painting was made while I was on an artist’s residency in Copenhagen, Denmark in October 2023. A momentary gesture of colour and light and love amongst what feels like a time of great darkness and disruption on our fragile planet.

 

 

Date and country of birth

1972, US

Career Highlights

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: Unconscious Color, Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach, USA (2023); Thresholds II, Findlay Galleries, New York, USA (2022); Thresholds, Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach, USA (2022); Circadian Rhythm – Commissioned triptych, Tate Modern Gallery, London, UK (2019-2024); Bauhaus / Handwerk, Gallery Lau, Munich, Germany (2019); Albedo – Old Street Gallery, London, UK (2019). SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Continuities: 2000 Years of Textile Arts in South America with Paul Hughes Fine Arts, Lamb Gallery, London, UK (2023); The Blue Hour, Officinet, Copenhagen, Denmark (2022); The Golden Hour, Galleri Lene Bilgrav, Copenhagen, Denmark (2022); Art Genève – Art Fair with Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (2022); Odd and Even – A Collection, Presented by Taste Contemporary, Maison Louis Carré, Paris, France (2021); 2000 Years of Abstraction with Paul Hughes Fine Arts, Maiden Bradley Chapel, Somerset, UK (2021); Art Genève – Art Fair with Taste Contemporary, Geneva Switzerland (2020); Miart – Art Fair with Taste Contemporary, Milan, Italy (2019); Art Genève – Art Fair with Taste Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland (2019); The Most Real Thing – New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, UK (2018)