Join us for the opening of Ohio Lands: Heap of Testimony at The Horse Hospital.

Behold This Heap (2020), oil on canvas

[ID: image shows an oil painting of a heap of stones set up on a cliff edge in a rocky mountain range. There is a crack in the rock below the heap. Across the crack is written in the ground the word ‘MIZPAH’]

Private View: 8th September, 6-9pm

This is a free event, but due to social distancing measures, we ask that you register in advance to attend, to enable us to maintain a limit on visitors in the space at any given time.

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This Autumn, from 9th September to 2nd October, we are delighted to host an exhibition of paintings by Eric Wright.

Saturated with recycled tropes and styles of ‘the American weird’ as well as traditional landscape painting and a particular folk-tinted post-modernism, there are over 50 paintings: strange landscapes intensely revisited by a London-based artist playing memory games with his hometown, the prophetically named Mt. Gilead, Ohio.

Born Mt. Gilead, Ohio, Wright lived in NY in the 1980s where his painting techniques were influenced by the TV maestro Bob Ross. His work has been curated by Paul Noble at City Racing Gallery, Stephen Friedman Gallery (London UK) and Hans-Ulrich Obrist’s ‘Life/Live’ at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris, FR). Collaborative exhibitions with Cathy Ward include PS1/MoMA (NY USA); ‘Transromantik’, Chamber of Pop Culture, The Horse Hospital (London UK); Mercer Union (Toronto CA); ‘Destiny Manifest’ at Southwark Park Galleries (London UK) and ‘Tender Vessels’ at Aspex Gallery (Portsmouth UK). His landscapes and portraits of country and western stars are found in collections in Europe and Nashville including that of George Jones. This will be Wright’s second show at The Horse Hospital, London’s longest-running underground gallery.