Started with Toby Ziegler at the Simon Lee gallery - low resolution images of Flemish Old Masters painted on aluminium and inverted, desaturated, fragmented and made translucent. Use of blocked white and black marks to force the viewer to look in between the spots. Some similarity to earlier Peter Doig paintings.
Next to Spruth Magers for Donald Judd preparatory drawings and correspondence with his fabricators.
I liked the combination of precision in some of his drawings combined with clear uncertainty as to the final outcome.
Then John Keane at Flowers - really striking, blurred, political images - lots of working into the paint and scraping off with some form of paint stripper or varnish - clear references to the lead politicians in the Iraq war - Blair and Bush, but shown with Baconesque, distorted ugliness - perhaps also referring to their refusal to accept responsibility for the decision to go to war and the resulting atrocities and deaths.
Final gallery was The Redfern Gallery, recent paintings by Kurt Jackson. Have seen a lot of his previous work and still enjoy his larger paintings which are painted in situ on the floor on the beach etc.
These ones have lts of found material a forced into the paint and comprise many layers of paint - the use of text on the face of the canvas is a bit distracting but it is unpretentious and reflects his mood and the surroundings when he is painting the canvases.
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