Union Gallery
Location: London
Year founded: 2007
Address:
94 Teesdale Street London E2 6PU
Contact details:
Tel:+44 (0) 78 5007 9002
Email: jari@union-gallery.com info@union-gallery.com
Website: union-gallery.com
Indicative opening times:
Thursday – Saturday 12am – 6pm
Sunday by appointment only
Current staff:
Jari – Juhani Lager: Director
From a background at Lisson Gallery, Jari Lager set up the VTO gallery in 1998 in Bethnal Green, London. Operating as an independent warehouse space, VTO staged 80 exhibitions, showcasing over 300 emerging artists and attracting significant international attention.
Whilst running VTO, Jari Lager became exhibition director at Essor Gallery in 2001, before establishing UNION Gallery in 2003 in a large space in south London. In 2009 Jari moved UNION Gallery to Teesdale Street in Bethnal Green, where he continues to curate and host a program of young and established artists' exhibitions.
Gallery artists include Rose Wylie, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Scott McFarland, Matthew Stone and Mike Marshall. Also represented are up and coming artists Anders Krisár and Yu Jinyoung who were recently joined by Charles Mason and AVPD.
Jari Lager, UNION’s founder and director spent the first part of his life in Barcelona before moving to the UK in 1993
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Showing at Trajector:
Union Gallery proposes a selection of artists showing works that will highlight in an abstracted form the pose of the human figure using various media like painting, video and sculpture. The artists are Alisa Margolis, Bernhard Martin, Hans Jörg-Mayer, Shannon Oksanen, Matthew Stone, Nick Hornby and Rose Wylie.
Their works will show different transformations of the female / male figure. Some works as in case of Shannon Oksanen
and Nick Hornby the woman’s face or body is reduced to a minimal form, while in Alisa Margolis’s painting the male figure is almost not visible in the foliage of paint.
Bernhard Martin and Hans Jörg-Mayer prefer, instead, a far more expressionistic representation delineating the figure with the use of colours.
In Rose Wylie and Matthew Stone’s works, Rose draws her portraits from memory, while Matthew works with young models shown in theatrical poses. A video by Matthew Stone will also accompany the show at the Trajector Fair.
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