▫️Gallery White Box, Blackheath - a new start with a new exhibition
▫️ Aleksandra Niemczyk's solo show, "Colour Attachments," begins this week.
Dear friends, supporters, and members of the community of Blackheath, London,
After several months of renovation, Gallery White Box has reopened its space to present contemporary art to audiences from Blackheath and beyond.
The gallery was originally established by Frances and Graham High eight years ago and has become a true treasure for the South East London art community.
A new team of curators, Aleksandra Niemczyk (painter and filmmaker) and Graeme Cole (writer and filmmaker), will shape the new program to continue the gallery’s well-established tradition in the years to come. Our new website is now live at gallerywhitebox.co.uk, and you can continue to follow the gallery on Instagram at instagram.com/gallerywhitebox.
The space will be run as a gallery and an active art studio held by Aleksandra Niemczyk and visiting artists. Through group and solo shows, artist residencies, pop-up installations, open studio events, art workshops, and more, we will aim to present contemporary, vibrant, relevant, and sometimes unconventional voices of local and international artists.
We also offer an art advisory to build existing and new art collections for private and corporate residences.
Aleksandra Niemczyk: “COLOUR ATTACHMENTS” | 14-30 June
We invite you to our upcoming exhibition of Aleksandra Niemczyk:
“COLOUR ATTACHMENTS”
14-30 June / Open Friday-Sunday 11-4 or by appointment.
A series of paintings depicting the co-dependence of colours and their powerful vibrations.
Each work deconstructs a broad landscape into geometric forms and vibrant colour palettes, transcending narrative to embrace abstraction while continuously testing the interplay and tension of colours in an infinite array of combinations.
On some canvases, the landscape remains present through hints of familiar forms, evoking the early watercolours of Paul Klee. In others, the narrative breaks down into pure abstraction based on simple geometric forms and complex colour compilations, allowing the unrefined emotionality of colour to resonate without distraction.
Aleksandra Niemczyk’s ongoing exploration delves beyond the visible spectrum and into the unseen energies that bind these colours together, their silent conversations forming the work's very essence.
“Exploring the interplay of textures in my paintings, I employ layers of cotton, silk, and canvas as an under layer,” explains Niemczyk, “creating a textile-like foundation that enriches the surface with a tactile dimension, allowing the canvases to resonate on both tactile and visual planes.”
Artist biography
Aleksandra Niemczyk is an abstract painter living and working in Blackheath/Greenwich, London.
She uses mixed media techniques to create non-figurative paintings full of intensity and colour, often inspired by her current landscape. Her latest works draw inspiration from the art of Boro and the pigments of Japanese textile art.
Niemczyk’s formal training includes an MA in Fine Arts (Painting and Lithography) and an MA in Film Directing from Béla Tarr’s radical film.factory program in Sarajevo.
She exhibits internationally and in the UK, where her work was recently selected for the Royal Society of British Artists’ 200th Anniversary Exhibition. Niemczyk’s works feature in many private and public art collections, among them those of Focus Bank and Louis Vuitton in Oslo, Norway.
We hope to see you there!
Aleksandra & Graeme, Gallery White Box team.
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