LON Gallery is delighted to present Snake Charmer, a group exhibition of works by Matthew Dettmer, Kez Hughes and Annika Koops.

The exhibition charts three separate approaches to representational painting which share an interest in the conceptual capabilities of the medium.

Matthew Dettmer works with a flux of disassociated images, which he disseminates through his language of flat realism. Working with disparate imagery, these works refuse to explain themselves through a clear conceptual narrative, instead revealing how a poetic sensibili­ty to subject matter and the process of painting can cohere a way of seeing.

In contrast, Kez Hughes' practice is primarily driven by the art community of which she engages in, as both a figurative painter and as co-director of non-profit gallery, Caves. Hughes creates realist paintings that document the exhibitions of her contemporaries. These paint­ings of paintings, sculptures or installations elaborate on issues of authenticity, subjectivity and cultural and social economies.

Working across digital rendering and traditional oil painting, Annika Koops is on artist whose work explores the impact of networked tech­nologies upon human relations and the formation of self. By exploring new representational paradigms involved in the intertwining of painting, photography and computer generated imagery, her work reflects upon the break down of barriers between physical and virtual space and its psychological implications.

Annika Koops appears courtesy of Bett Gallery.