James Jarvis is returning back to Beach London on the 6th June for his second solo exhibition titled ‘Objects in Space’, which consists of a series of large-format, freehand airbrush drawings by the London-based artist. All of the drawings feature the Sphere, an abstracted, archetypal every-character, engaging with large geometric objects in a series of real-life urban environments. These locations are a selection of ‘spots’ made famous through skateboarding, and the character’s struggle to manipulate these objects mirrors the skateboarder’s re-appropriation and re-interpretation of architectural space.
In recent years, the Sphere has been a primary focal point in Jarvis’ work; a distillation of his continued interest in the creation and refinement of a minimal ‘ideal’ for a cartoon character; most significantly in his 2012 project, Spheric Dialogues, a series of 380 cartoons in which the Sphere responds to a series of philosophical conundrums.
http://www.studiojarvis.com
http://sphericdialogues.wordpress.com
http://www.beachlondon.co.uk
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