The Figurative Exhibition 2023
May 25 – June 6, 2023
Immerse yourself in the beauty, complexity, and profound nature of the human form in this exhibition of figurative art.
Artist Feature: Michael Hermesh
Jumping into the New Year, we begin with Michael Hermesh’s new artworks, delivering new acrylic and mixed media critiques of human behavior.
Blake Ward and Boky Hackel-Ward: Sentient Symmetry
The sculptures are a transgression of the classical rules, crossing over into the abstract and ethereal realms of our inner worlds.
Thomas Anfield : Informed Monkeys
This solo exhibition will be on display from November 18 – December 2. To meet the artist and chat about the work, be sure to come visit us on Saturday November 20 between 1-4pm!
Fahri Aldin
Petley Jones Gallery invites you to ‘Feast’ your eyes on the newest pieces by gallery artist Fahri Aldin!
August 19th – September 2nd, 2021
Blake Ward – 3D Printing
In this work, traditional ”hand made or “analogue” sculptural methods have been combined with modern digital techniques of sculpting using a 3D sculpting program.
ELIXIR
ELIXIR
A collection of works by Canadian born sculptor Blake Ward and German born sculptor Boky Hackel-Ward.
Elixir showcases the fusion between the two artists. Blake and Boky share the body as a material extension, a fragment, mortified on the net in the digital age. We are nothing but a sum of destinies without an identity, in an infinitude of places.
Blake takes Michelangelo’s legacy and runs with it, 3D printing in his bronze sculptures a mystic tension that is deliberately anti-heroic, poignant, paradoxically sensual and immaterial. His bronzes shape unfinished bodies, slender and concise figures, goddesses of memory, ambassadors of imperishable metaphors, ready to take flight at any moment, who seem to be sculpted by light, in which 3D is the material of art. His sculptures are intentionally unfinished, from the Phantom collection to the Spirits collection, the sculptor reworks the vocabulary of ancient statuary, invents new configurations of the nudes of the new millennium, acrobats of precariousness, shipwrecked by globalization. These slender nymphs or Maenads dance on the abyss of the net, invite the viewer to reflect on the contemporaneity, they are relics of humanity, of a trivialized femininity, serialized on Instagram.
Boky Hackel-Ward is a restorer, painter, musician, photographer, performance and conceptual artist, who trained in Florence where she breathed, lived and absorbed the “grammar” of the Renaissance. A polyglot, obsessed with language, she conjugates poetry and figuration resulting in an autonomous, recognizable code.
Her male and female bodies through words welded together determine enigmatic identities. In the communicative energy of language and in the universality of poetry, Boky yearns for the rebirth, the materialization and transfiguration of the verbum, evoking tension towards the absolute expressed with gold.
Blake has exhibited in Monaco, England, Germany, Italy, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, The United States, and Canada. His work is in the private collections of Prince Albert of Monaco, Herb Alpert, Gerry Moss, among others, as well as three public pieces displayed in the gardens of Monaco and one in the Salle Garnier Opera house. Boky has exhibited in Monaco, France, Aspen and Chicago. Their atelier is in Monaco.
Latest press on Artnet:
Duncan Regehr, Presence
“PRESENCE” is an exhibition of figurative works selected from two separate series of oil paintings: “Pilgrim” and “Palimpsest”. The exhibition will celebrate the launch of my seventh book of visual and literal works, also entitled “Presence
Blake Ward: The Space Within
Blake Ward’s works from his Spirits Collection expand on the techniques of figurative sculpture developed in antiquity.
A Selected View
The pieces chosen for A Selected View are a vision and representation of how a select individual views beauty in nature and everyday life. Emily Liteplo, Curator
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