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Eva Dixon and Deborah Lerner | Particular Ideas x Rise Art x Minor Attractions
In Conversation
Eva Dixon &
Deborah Lerner
Presented by
We are pleased to present two new bodies of work by Eva Dixon and Deborah Lerner, shown by London-based gallery Particular Ideas.
We welcomed Eva Dixon and Deborah Lerner to our founder’s home for a discussion on obsessions, ideas, and the cultural fixations that repeatedly surface in their work.
From labour, subcultures and the enduring pull of art history to the overlooked textures of the urban environment, their practices are shaped by a sustained and penetrative act of looking, collecting, and assembling.
Together, they explore the productive role of obsession, both personal and collective, and why certain materials, motifs and questions continue to exert their hold.
This presentation marks the second instalment of an ongoing partnership between Minor Attractions and Rise Art.
Rise Art shines a light on today's most dynamic and culturally significant artists, collaborating directly with a curated roster of emerging, mid-career, and established creatives worldwide.
Particular Ideas is a contemporary arts enterprise that collaborates with artists on exhibitions, special projects and limited edition artworks. Motivated by their love of visual art, they aim to help artists realise new ideas across physical and digital contexts.
Minor Attractions is an annual art fair held during Frieze week in London. Blending contemporary art with performance and nightlife, the fair has quickly established itself as a catalyst in the city's emerging art scene while carving out a place on the international commercial circuit.
Eva Dixon
Eva Dixon’s practice is driven by a seductive engagement with labour, utility and material culture. The artist explores homo-eroticism in sport and porn, the space race, lesbianism, and industry, working across painting, sculpture, and assemblage.
Eva repurposes military textiles, rip-stop nylon, emergency blankets, industrial hardware and discarded functional materials, treating the studio as a site of physical experimentation where making is led by the demands of the work itself. Discreet and sometimes racy advertisements inform the next stages of Dixon’s practice and speak to the loss of historical artefacts in the wider LGBTQ+ community, where fictioning is a prevalent tool passed down through generations.
Featured works
Deborah Lerner
Deborah Lerner’s paintings explore the material possibilities of paint and how it can be used to raise broader questions around the human experience. Deeply affected by Jack Whitten’s notion of using "formal as a means to arrive at subject", Lerner allows surface, edge, colour, and composition to bring into being characteristics often lacking within our contemporary society.
Eschewing fixed narratives, the work instead invites sustained attention, embracing ambiguity and the coexistence of seemingly contradictory ideas. Rooted in close observation of the everyday, Lerner’s practice is informed by the overlooked textures of the urban environment, where bubble wrap, textured wallpaper and other found materials become as significant as brushes or palette knives.
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