Julian Opie.IKON GALLERY The Ikon Gallery (grid reference SP060866) is a modern art gallery, housed in the Grade II listed, neo-gothic, former Birmingham board school Oozells Street School (John Henry Chamberlain 1877), in Brindleyplace, Birmingham, England. Julian Opie Julian Opie (born 1958) is a leading contemporary English artist, who uses computerised imagery. He is a former trustee of the Tate Gallery. Life and work Julian Opie was born in London and raised in Oxford. is known for his multimedia installations, all realized in his computer-generated, linear signature style, with effects ranging from wry humor to disaffected urban melancholy. His theme for Ikon Gallery, the foremost showcase for new art in the Midlands, is landscape, both rural and urban. Video, sound tracks, sculpture, and paintings are brought together in an inclusive meditation on nature and artifice ar·ti·fice n. 1. An artful or crafty expedient; a stratagem. See Synonyms at wile. 2. Subtle but base deception; trickery. 3. Cleverness or skill; ingenuity. , sign and reality. A striking feature here will be the setting of a variety of works against a continuous view of a motorway painted around the gallery walls. Elsewhere you'll see blinking lights on a runway and soaring skyscrapers, hear waves on a beach, glimpse grazing sheep outside the gallery. New pieces and old conspire con·spire v. con·spired, con·spir·ing, con·spires v.intr. 1. To plan together secretly to commit an illegal or wrongful act or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action. 2. to make this a crucial show of the artist's work. Sept. 14-Nov. 4. |
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