Anna Gonzalez Noguchi, Ellie Pratt & Kenneth Winterschladen

Art Athina, Athens

16 - 19 September 2022

For Art Athina 2022, South Parade presents a selection of paintings and sculptures; drawing together artwork by Anna Gonzalez Noguchi, Ellie Pratt and Kenneth Winterschladen.

Kenneth Winterschladen’s paintings suggest the mapping of memory and the diagrammatical language of textbooks and instruction. His plans and revisions are forged directly on the surface which contain, among others, varying cosmological or personal motifs, synthesizing “detached, out-of-context and dream-like imagery in contrasting positions”. One such repeating personal motif is that of the Great Blue Heron - an icon of the ecosystem of the Chesapeake Bay, where Winterschladen was raised. To coincide with Art Athina, Winterschladen has a solo exhibition at the gallery in London.

Ellie Pratt creates paintings that interrogate the female form and notions of desire - especially those depicted within the pages of fashion magazines. She probes and explores the tension between objectification, directed role, fact and fiction underlining its complexity and perversity. In much of her work, the setting is not immediately apparent whilst also drawing pictorial references from Surrealist and French Impressionist painters.

The slender and gestural depictions of Pratt and Winterschladen respectively are contrasted with the precise sculptures of Anna Gonzalez Noguchi. Combining elements of the handcrafted and the functionality of mass production, Gonzalez Noguchi excavates her Spanish and Japanese heritage in meticulous fashion, recalculating personal spaces that her family have lived and worked. Through this process of relocation and preservation, she questions what it means to posses things and embed memories, personal histories and wider connections.

Kenneth Winterschladen (b. 1993, Washington D.C, USA) lives and works in London. He graduated from the Royal College of Art (MA Painting) in 2020. Recent selected group exhibitions include Pathways on Paper, South Parade (London, 2022), One Piece (184 Franklin, New York, 2022, curated by Daisy Sanchez), The Gnosis Show (online, 2021, curated by Tosia Leniarska), 50/50, Fold Gallery (London, 2020), Autumn Yield and Bridget Riley Studios, (London, 2019). Kenneth will be in an upcoming group show curated by Ted Targett at Recent Activity (Birmingham), opening 7 October.

Ellie Pratt (b.1991, Kent, UK) is a painter who lives and works in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art (MA Painting) in 2015. Recent selected exhibitions include a solo presentation with PM/AM (London, 2021) and group exhibitions at The Artist Room Gallery x Phillips (Seoul, 2022), Lawrence Van Hagen Art, Palazzo Barbaro (Venice, 2022), Workplace (London, 2022), Linseed Projects (Shanghai, 2021) and V.O Curations (London, 2020).

Anna Gonzalez Noguchi (b. 1992, Japan - Spain - UK) lives and works in Athens. She graduated from the Royal College of Art (MA Sculpture) in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include NEW FOUND LAND, Caustic Coastal (Salford, UK, 2019) and Nomadic Vitrine, Recent Activity (Birmingham, UK, 2018). Recent group exhibitions include On the other hand, Canary Wharf Estate (London, 2021), UK Contemporary Fulmer (Fulmer, UK, 2021), Squeeze Box, Collective Ending (London, 2021), Apotropaion, Felios Collection (Athens, 2021) and Against the Linear, KEIV, (Athens, 2021).