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Proof · the back room

The Speakeasy

featuring m.b.ii, cartoonist

Twelve works, hung low and lit warm. Figure studies among them, some nude. Tap a piece to see it whole.

  1. A pop-art comic portrait: a grey-haired woman with red lips, hand in her hair, on a slanted halftone ground.No. 01Untitled
  2. A silver figure in full flight, arm outstretched, streaking through speed lines on black.No. 02Untitled
  3. Two abstract panels facing each other, one in warm sand and umber, one in pale aqua, with dark marks reaching across the gap.No. 03Eye Contact
  4. A comic panel: a woman in a robe and stockings waits in an armchair under a lamp while the artist at his easel sketches his own bearded self-portrait instead. No. 04Untitled
  5. A nude figure in sepia, broken up by glitch blocks, colour-shifted squares and scan lines across her face and body.No. 05Untitled
  6. A soft-focus painting of a 1960s television Batman in grey suit and blue cape, standing at ease.No. 06The Wild West
  7. Looking down a square wooden stairwell, its landings narrowing into the dark.No. 07Stairway (2009)
  8. A girl in a pale dress and heavy boots, head bowed, in an empty room lit by one window.No. 08Prom Night
  9. A woman in a dark wrap dress seated in profile on a sofa, lit pink and cold against black.No. 09Mrs. Mistress
  10. An abstract glitch piece: torn bands of cyan, lime, red and violet over grey, with a halftone patch.No. 10Untitled
  11. A charcoal-grey figure study of a muscular torso in flight, fist raised, seen from below.No. 11Untitled
  12. A sepia figure study of a nude woman seen from behind in mid-stride, head and arms cut away.No. 12Untitled
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