Contemporary British Artist, specialising in figurative work
Very pleased to see my paintings in Le Monde (if a bit late!) in an article about the new Soho House in Paris. I was given free rein in the bar and created 8 new works in total. Really looking forward to a few mini breaks there - it looks gorgeous!
‘Annie Kevans, Painter of Taboos’ - I love the title of this article in Famosa Magazine (France)! / 'Annie Kevans, Peintre des Tabous’ - j’adore le titre de cet article paru dans la magazine Famosa (France)! **er
Merci to Flow magazine (France) for the lovely feature in last month’s issue. The article focussed on my History of Art series, first exhibited in 2013, which depicts women artists from the past who have been consistently sidelined from the mainstream. The article was first produced for Flow (Netherlands) in 2019.
I'm very proud to be included in this wonderful book: 'A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women)', Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists by Danielle Krysa.
Celebrate 45 women artists, and gain inspiration for your own practice, this beautiful exploration of contemporary creators from the founder of The Jealous Curator. Buy it on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079L58MRS?tag=hacboogrosit-20De
Exhibition: The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2018
My 'Andy Warhol in Drag' can now be seen at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London. This painting on wood forms part of my 'Drag' series which was shown at in New York alongside my 'History of Art' series which looked at forgotten female artists. Would Andy Warhol have been lionised if he'd been born a woman?
Andy Warhol in Drag
Oil on wood
50 x 40 cm
Buy the work online here: https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2018/artworks/annie-kevans/1291
or see it on display in the Wohl Entrance Hall and McAulay Gallery
12 June - 19 August
Burlington House
Piccadilly
Mayfair
London W1J 0BD
Exhibition: The World of Frida, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, California
This summer the Bedford Gallery celebrates the culture, style, and persona of visionary painter Frida Kahlo, an artist who continues to inspire with her story of love, adventure, and pain.
8 July - 16 September 2018
Bedford Gallery
Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Dr.
Walnut Creek
California
Inclusion in Book: 'Madam and Eve: Women Portraying Women'
by Liz Ridea & Kathleen Soriano
How do women paint or photograph each other? How do they represent each other in performance or sculpture? As mothers or heroines? With tenderness, aggression or respect? Madam & Eve explores the female gaze as it focuses on other women.
The authors – an artist and a curator – investigate the work of over 200 artists, ranging from the well-established to the lesser known. A historical introduction sets up the artistic and cultural context for the rest of the book, which focuses on art since the 1970s and covers the universal themes of the body, life, death, stories, and icons.
The result is an amazing parade of artworks: eye-catching, poignant, powerful, political, idiosyncratic, playful, awkward, passionate, sexy, and positive. It is also an eloquent examination of the impact that the feminist movement has had on contemporary art.
Publishers Weekly Review:
04/30/2018
Artist Rideal (Mirror Mirror: Self-portraits by Women Artists) and curator Soriano add to the recent wave of art books celebrating contemporary women artists with this eclectic compilation. Focusing primarily on Western art from the past half-century, the authors survey the impact of the feminist movement of the 1970s on the development of contemporary art from over 200 artists. The book includes work from household names like Louise Bourgeois, Marina Abramovic, Cindy Sherman, and others whose feminist themes are well-known. More noteworthy is the selection of work by lesser-known artists. Highlights include Amy Sillman’s cartoonish painting of a woman staring at her body in the mirror, Rineke Dijkstra’s photo of a mother holding her newborn baby while staring blankly into the camera, and Betye Saar’s assemblage sculpture of an Aunt Jemima figurine equipped with a broom and rifle. Many of the images are disturbing: Cathie Pilkington’s sculpture of a seductive woman with a baby doll head, Paula Rego’s abortion Triptych (1998), and Daphne Todd’s postmortem portrait of her mother—yet it is precisely the perverse and subversive nature of these works that sets this book apart from others in its category."
Buy on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Madam-Eve-Women-Portraying/dp/1786271567
Buy from Barnes & Noble here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/madam-and-eve-liz-rideal/1126944374 #/
Press: Vogue (US), Dodie Kazanjian, 'Can You Define Beauty?'
To mark Vogue’s one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary this year, we asked a number of artists “What is beauty?”—a Vogue question if ever there was one. The idea was to have them make images we could reproduce to raise money for the HIV/AIDS charities God’s Love We Deliver and Born Free (one American, one African). Eleven artists, including John Baldessari, Julie Mehretu, Maurizio Cattelan, and Beatriz Milhazes, signed on, and the always creative fashion house Marni agreed to collaborate by using the artworks on limited-edition tote bags and T-shirts.
[...]
The English artist Annie Kevans contributes a portrait of Hari Nef, the transgender fashion model. “Like art, beauty is subjective, and there is an inherent freedom in that,” Kevans says. “In this unique time in history, when global discrepancies have never been more apparent, transgender models such as Hari Nef and Andreja Pejic remind us how fortunate we are to live in a society that not only accepts diversity but finds it beautiful.”
Read the whole article: https://www.vogue.com/article/vogue-125-marni-collaboration-what-is-beauty
Commission: 20 Portraits for Annabel's Private Club
This series features 20 paintings on wood panels depicting some of the club's favourite members, from entertainers to power players in fashion and art. The paintings are of Anna Wintour, Astrid Harbord, Cara Delevingne, Charlotte Tilbury, Damien Hirst, Daphne Guinness, Derek Blasberg, Eddie Redmayne, Eugenie Niarchos, Grace Jones, Hikari Yokoyama, HRH Princess Beatrice, Kate Moss, Lady Gaga, Mario Testino, Naomi Campbell, Noor Fares, Richard Caring, Sienna Miller and Tom Ford.
Top from left to right: Kate Moss, HRH Princess Beatrice
Bottom from left to right: Eddie Redmayne, Lady Gaga
Each work: oil on wood, 50 x 40 cm
I'll be in Nottingham this Friday night for the private view of 'Reportrait' at Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery. Please let me know if you want to come to the opening so I can put you on the guest list.
Lovely article in VOGUE (USA) about my show at Danziger Gallery in New York.
The opening reception of my show at Danziger Gallery on Rivington Street in New York opens this Thursday, 3rd of November. The show's main theme is gender inequality and perceptions of genius in art. I hope you can make it!
I'm taking part in a show at House of St Barnabas (Soho Square) called 'The Collective'. Please send me a message if you'd like an invitation to the private view on the 7th.
I'm currently showing some works in an exhibition called 'Fifteen Minutes' at the Cornell Art Museum in Florida. The show is on till January and the museum has great reviews on TripAdvisor.
Lots of shows coming up - my website has finally been updated! http://www.anniekevans.com/ #!blank/gj1rq
"Kevans’ work is approachable, unpretentious, and unexpectedly profound." Nisha Lilia Diu, Telegraph
Nice article in AnOther magazine about my show in Edinburgh which finishes on the 3rd of September. http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8875/the-fluid-anti-portraits-of-artist-annie-kevans
Madeleine Morley talks to the London-based creative about her unique practice as a showcase of her beguiling works opens in Edinburgh
Ingrid Betancourt's new book, The Blue Line, is out now, featuring one of Annie's paintings on the cover
From the extraordinary Colombian French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, a stunning debut....
Exhibition: She Came to Stay
25 June - 21 August
Private View on Wednesday 24 June, from 6.00 pm
Artists:
Paula Rego DBE
Eileen Cooper RA
Annie Kevans
Lucy Farley
Marie Jacotey
Rook & Raven
7 Rathbone Place
London W1T 1HN
Rook & Raven Gallery was founded in 2010 by Richard Grindy and Rachelle Lunnon, to encourage alternative artistic practice, forming a bridge between commercial and progressive art forms from both emerging and established international artists.
I'll be talking on a panel tomorrow at Art15 in Kensington at 2.00 with some great women: The Importance of Women Artists in the Marketplace: Perspectives from Institutions, Galleries and Artists.
Moderated and organized by Marjorie Martay (Art W founder)
Speakers include: Brett Rogers OBE (Director, The Photographers' Gallery, London), Sara Raza (Guggenheim UBS Map Curator of Middle East and North Africa), Virginia Damtsa (Director, Riflemaker Gallery, London), Karen Jenkins Johnson (Founder, Jenkins Johnson Gallery), Penelope Slinger (Artist, Riflemaker) and Annie Kevans (Artist, Jenkins Johnson and Fine Art Society Contemporary). See here to book a ticket: http://www.artfairslondon.com/programme/talks
Art15
I'm pleased to say one of my paintings forms the cover of Ingrid Betancourt's new book which will be released by Penguin Random House very soon.
Really looking forward to seeing my works in the Jean Paul Gaultier show in Paris at the Grand Palais. It looks formidable!
Really looking forward to seeing my works in the Jean Paul Gaultier show in Paris at the Grand Palais. It looks formidable!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mia-kossiavelou/mosaic-of-a-lady-5-super-_b_6805896.html
How do we tell the story about women today? A portrait, more like a contemporary mosaic, if you will, emerged, of disruptive, brilliant, super femmes from diverse backgrounds around the globe, as I interviewed five women to celebrate International Wo...
Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
Installation shot of 'Boys' by Annie Kevans
So proud of my husband, Will Kevans, for finally finishing his graphic novel and somehow managing to show it to Prince Harry and getting written about in the Daily Express (page 3)! It's a brilliant book and is now available to order via: http://willkevans.mysimplestore.com/
http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/179269/Prince-Harry-prefers-comics-books
PRINCE Harry has confessed he prefers reading comics to books.
Great article in The Daily Californian about my show in San Francisco: http://www.dailycal.org/2014/10/09/annie-kevans-exhibit-empowers-rediscovers/
The canon of historical art is filled to the brim with women. For centuries, a multitude of female faces have been meticulously crafted from brush strokes both big and small, with their bodies ranging from lithely slender to roundly Rubenesque and their frames from demurely clothed to brazenly nude.…
Me on Newsnight last week! http://www.anniekevans.com/newsnight-(bbc).html
Great opportunity for work experience in a Bond Street Gallery: the Fine Art Society are looking for interns to help with their upcoming big group show. Contact [email protected] for more info.
Check out my latest press here. I've added a few interviews in which I talk about my latest series 'Women and the History of Art', including some I did on radio: http://www.anniekevans.com/bibliography--press.html
2014 Newstalk Radio (Ireland), Orla Barry, 'The Green Room: Why Were Women Aibrushed out of Art History?', 31 May
It's the final week of Women and the History of Art! The show ends on 6 June. Follow the link to my website to hear my interviews with the BBC World Service and BBC Radio 5 Live and to read about the show in The Times, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, AnOther Magazine and Port Magazine: http://www.anniekevans.com/bibliography--press.html
2014 The Evening Standard, Louise Jury, 'Portraits at new Annie Kevans exhibition honour the art of motherhood', 12 May
Women and the History of Art private view at the Fine Art Society, Monday 12 May
Website has finally been updated with newer works and articles: www.anniekevans.com
Please put Monday 12th May in your diaries for my private view at the Fine Art Society: Women and the History of Art.
Jean Paul Gaultier / Annie Kevans at the Barbican this April
Lovely article about my new paintings at the Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition at the Barbican: http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/art-annie-kevans?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+(It%27s+Nice+That)
Art: Annie Kevans' beautiful portraits of Jean Paul Gaultier's muses Posted by Liv Siddall, Wednesday 09 April 2014TweetWe reviewed the Jean Paul Gaultier show that everyone’s talking on the site earlier today, and mentioned the astonishing amount of contributors to his career. As well as photograph...
http://www.globalblue.com/destinations/uk/london/inside-the-fashion-world-of-jean-paul-gaultier/
Take a look at the models, artists and actors who have inspired the celebrated French designer Jean Paul Gaultier, whose retrospective exhibition opens tomorrow
Off to Brussels tomorrow for the opening of Politricks at Beursschouwburg (http://www.beursschouwburg.be/en/). The museum will be showing my Boys series, kindly lent by the Saatchi Gallery.
A cauldron of conflicting interests, the centre of current world politics. The relationship between art and politics is of all times and cultures.
Check out this promo video for an exhibition I'll be in soon, in a museum in Brussels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIBhnmVdO18&feature=youtu.be&fb_source=message
Beursschouwburg - focus programme 7 Feb -- 29 March 2014 What do Tito, Ceausescu, Idi Amin Dada, Assad and Mitt Romney all have in common? What does the futu...
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