Paris Internationale 2024

16–20 October 2024

PRESS RELEASE

Aaron Angell (b.1987, London), graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art (2011). He lives and works out of London, United Kingdom. Angell has exhibited internationally, with recent solo presentations including: Hornet…, Holburne Museum, Bath (2021) Shoes, Rob Tufnell, Cologne (2018); Plumb Poltergeist, Art Exchange, Essex (2018); Aaron Angell, Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow, Glasgow (2017) ; Why I built the Cloaca Maxima, Rob Tufnell, Cologne (2017); The Death of Robin Hood, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow (2016); Variations on the Chaldon Doom, Markus Lüttgen, Cologne (2016); Grotwork, Studio Voltaire, London (2015). Recent group shows include: Natura Morta, Ilenia (2024), Strange Clay, Hayward Gallery, London (2022); Artifices Instabiles, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco (2020); The land we live in, the land we left behind, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2018); That continuous thing: artists and the ceramic studio: 1920-Today, Tate St Ives, Cornwall (2017); The British Art Show 8, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds (2016); Potteries Thinkbelt, Rob Tufnell, London (2015); ‘Pool’, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2014); As a merman I should turn to be, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London (2014); A History of Inspiration, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013); Hides on All Sides, Torrance Shipman Gallery, Brooklyn (2013).

 

Violet Dennison (b.1989, Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an artist living and working in New York. Selected solo exhibitions: “I Just Want a Little Credit!” Ilenia, London, UK (2024), “WetWare,” Jan Kaps, Cologne, DE (2023); “Freak Like Me,” Theta, New York, US (2021); “Chapter Four: Disappointment,” Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, DE (2019); “Tell Me How To Feel,” Kunsthalle Stavanger, Stavanger, DE (2019); “Transcend,” Jan Kaps, Cologne, DE (2017); “O Earth, O Earth, Return !,” James Fuentes, New York, US (2015); “Replicant,” Jan Kaps, Cologne, DE (2014); Selected Group Exhibitions: “In Practice: Literally means collapse,” Sculpture Center, New York, US (2022); “The Grid and the Curve,” JTT, New York, US (2022); “Weather Report,” The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut, US (2019); “Triennial: Songs for Sabotage,” New Museum, New York, US (2018); “Dinner that Night (organized by Weston Lowe),” Arts Alumni, curated by Chrissie Illes, The Commons Gallery, New York University, New York, NY (2018); To Do as One Would, David Zwirner, New York (2014). Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art Forum, Mousse Magazine, Cura, Cultured and Forbes. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 2018 and her Bacherlors of Fine arts from New York University in 2011.

INSTALLATION VIEWS

SELECTED WORKS

Violet Dennison
Jacob’s Ladder Flowers and Tilt, 2024
oil, acrylic and graphite on primed linen
50.8 x 50.8 cm
20x20in
VD008

Violet Dennison
Jacob’s Ladder Flower and Tilt, 2024
oil acrylic and graphite on primed linen
40.6 x 40.6 cm
16x16in
VD009

Aaron Angell
Caterpillar engine 10, 2023
ceramic, shigaraki-style inclusion bodies and porcelain, anagama natural ash, bidoro, yohen, kani-no-me. Lacquer additions.
56 x 30 x 32 cm
22 x 11 3/4 x 12 5/8 in
AA006

Aaron Angell
Untitled, 2023
Unglazed anagama natural ash, English bodies, River Eden slip, inclusions, yohen, kani-no-me
31 x 48 x 29 cm
12 1/4 x 18 7/8 x 11 3/8 in
AA002

Aaron Angell
Caterpillar engine 8, 2021
Inclusion body and iron slip. Anagama natural ash. Yohen, bidoro
25 x 13 x 22 cm
9 7/8 x 5 1/8 x 8 5/8 in
AA005

 

Exhibition history:
Strange Clay, Hayward Gallery, London, October 2022 – Feb 2023; Hornet, Hailstone, Crab Eye, Aerodrome… (etc.) The Holburne Museum, Bath, Sep 2021 – Jan 2022