FIEROZA DOORSEN, HELEN IRELAND, SAM REVELES
9 - 30 July 2004

The Eagle Gallery’s current exhibition brings together three artists whose work share similarities in an approach to using drawing as a major element in making their abstract images. The works on show include a large scale canvas by Fieroza Doorsen and recent pieces by Helen Ireland which are made through a combination of etching and painting glass plate.

Fieroza Doorsen is a London based artist whose work has been included in a number of notable exhibitions including Love at First Sight, curated by Graham Gussin,The Showroom, London and By Hand, curated by Paul Hedge, Hales Gallery, London. Doorsen’s work is the most immediately graphic of the three artists, often involving repeated graphite shapes drawn over preexisting surfaces such as Arabic newsprint or found book pages.

Helen Ireland extends observations of organic forms through repeated drawing, ultimately moving the images from literal observations of subjects such as grasses, bamboo, shrimps or water; towards abstraction. In the larger works surfaces are cut through layers of Japanese tissue, allowing forms to emerge at different depths from within the picture plane. The new works on glass employ a similar sense of layering and veiling the image, with the etched elements appearing both as form within the surface and as reflected shadow on the wall.

Sam Reveles is currently based in Texas working for a solo show with the CRG Gallery in New York.
His delicate mixed media works: Study from the Perfumed Bedroom I & II, play conceptually with a number of different references. They allude in a spatial sense to the balance and placement of objects within the tradition of Indian miniatures and are overlaid with more expressionistic scrawls of jewel-like colour. An earlier series of works on paper show a similar sense of obscuring an existing image, with glimpses of painted landscape seen at the edges of ‘walls’ of overlaid colour.

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