Pippy Houldsworth Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly, and Agnes Martin
Agnes Martin, The Peach, 1964. Graphite and ink on paper mounted on board, 30.5 x 30.5 cm, 12 x 12 in. Image courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. Photo: Todd White.
LONDON
.-Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is presenting Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly and Agnes Martin in Lines of Thought, an exhibition exploring the poetics and politics of language. Important unseen work by Kelly and new text drawings and weavings by Davis enter into conversation with the hand-drawn lines and gridded compositions of Martins works on paper.
Lines of Thought is the first UK presentation of work by young LA-based artist, Kenturah Davis. Four works (2020) from her series, Limen, pair portraiture with weaving, expressing how individuals are inseparable from the ideas and language that shape identity. Each portrait takes shape through a meticulous process of rubbing pencil across em