Interview with Paul Huxley

05/01/16

Interview: Paul Huxley

Trained at Harrow College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in the 1950s, Paul Huxley (b1938) grew up immersed in American culture and art. The US was then still an expensive destination, to which few people travelled, and Huxley smiles as he remembers how unreal it all felt. Then, in 1964, he won a Stuyvesant travel award and found himself in New York, with the then curator of the Whitechapel Gallery, Bryan Robertson, who introduced him to the likes of Robert Motherwell and Lee Krasner.

Returning for two further years on a Harkness fellowship, Huxley was able to realise his ambitions of working on a large scale, creating abstract paintings and developing his vocabulary of shapes and gestures. After Huxley was included in the Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture in 1967 and a Museum of Modern Art travelling exhibition in 1968, the Kornblee Gallery in New York mounted two solo exhibitions of his work in 1967 and 1970. Since then, he has been based in London, and his forthcoming exhibition at David Richard Gallery, Santa Fé, New Mexico, will be his first stateside solo show in nearly 40 years.

Watch the interview here

Interview with Jeanne Masoero

11/07/15

Interview: Jeanne Masoero

Born in London to Italian parents, Jeanne Masoero spent her first six years living in Italy. When she returned to England and was sent to a convent school, she spoke no English and was looked on as something of a curiosity. The strict education that ensued – “Latin and Gregorian chant and not much else” – instilled in her a rigorous discipline, which is apparent in her intricate abstract drawings and paintings, where unseen nets carry clusters of minute marks – grains of colour – out into a sublime infinity, while simultaneously keeping them contained within an amniotic sac, floating in a white expanse. It is possible to trace journeys between the ridges and valleys, like on a map, and each work offers a journal of journeys – made by Masoero, made by the viewer – through invisible and imagined landscapes.

Studio International spoke to Masoero in her studio during a recent exhibition of her work at Sandra Higgins Fine Art, London, Invisible Cities:A Mayan Journey. Higgins was also present.

To read this interview, please go to: http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/jeanne-masoero-interview-mayan-journey

Studio Tour with Agathe Sorel

12/11/14

Agathe Sorel: Studio Tour

Agathe Sorel talks to Studio International about the work in her retrospective exhibition at the Studio of Contemporary Art, Forest Hill, London. Her work has been principally interested in the line, and its 3D – or even 4D – properties, which she has explored in print works and sculpture.

To watch the video of this studio visit, please go to: http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/agathe-sorel-studio-tour