Early Summer Shows at No.9 Cork Street

Artwin Gallery: Mika Plutitskaya and Olesia Lavrinenko – ‘GATHER!S’ | 25 April – 10 May 2025

‘GATHER!S’ is a duo exhibition by painters Mika Plutitskaya and Olesia Lavrinenko, curated by Anya Zhurba in collaboration with Artwin Gallery. Both artists’ practices focus on the effort and rigour of creation rather than expressive gesture, incorporating the inevitable attempts and failures within the works rather than heading to a clearly envisioned goal. Without making it explicit, this is a feminist exhibition – in the choice of colours, the multilayered titles, the installation decisions when works touch the wall and floor directly without a rigid structure.

Lavrinenko and Plutitskaya have different drives and intuitions, but share the idea of slow, secluded and focused work with materials and techniques that are very considered. Time is woven into these works: in the empty spaces between the layers of the fabric, and the pauses, emptiness and in-betweenness within their individual works and in their muted but enriching dialogue.

Bo Lee and Workman: Kathryn Maple – ‘Beneath the Swamp Cypress’ | 25 April – 10 May 2025

More overwhelmed by nature than depicting or celebrating it, Kathryn Maple’s canvases have an almost Ballardian quality about them, as if the viewer is part of a dystopian plant world, about to be enmeshed in foliage. Presented by Bo Lee and Workman Gallery, Maple looks for obscure natural forms and their environments as a starting point, experimenting with their inherent abstract and surreal qualitites. A recent discovery – the ‘knees’ that appear as lumps at the feet of the swamp cypress trees in Kew Gardens – overlap with the salt tufas of Mono Lake, California, and the collective effect of Maple’s marks and influences appears as a coruscating and swarming field of activity.

Lehmann Maupin: ‘Beyond Material’ | Until 10 May 2025

‘Beyond Material’ brings together work by nine artists from Lehmann Maupin’s roster: Kader Attia, McArthur Binion, Todd Gray, Nicholas Hlobo, Shirazeh Houshiary, Liza Lou, Kim Yun Shin, Do Ho Suh and Billie Zangewa. 

Curated by the gallery’s London-based partner Isabella Icoz, the exhibition explores the social, historical, political and emotional connotations of artists’ materials choices. Highlights include Lou’s decades-long exploration of the abstract potential of glass beads, Houshiary’s fluid, ethereal forms rendered in water and aquacryl and Zangewa’s hand-stitched silk collages.

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^{Main image: Kathryn Maple, Nettle Stings, 2024. Oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm. Courtesy: the artist and Bo Lee and Workman}