Bloomberg Project Space
Those of you who do not enjoy the artful splodge, the painterly swoosh or graphic squiggle may wish to avert your gaze from these new paintings by twenty-eight-year-old London-based artist Stuart Cumberland. But connoisseurs of the skilfully deployed, looks-spontaneous-but-is-carefully-calculated school of messy abstraction (yes, I have a more analytical terminology for this, read on) will recognise that in these works Cumberland has established himself as one of the most promising painters to have emerged in this city in the last five years.
When Stuart Cumberland showed me these new paintings in his studio last month, he said “I don’t know if any of these are finished yet.” Then he added, “Although my paintings aren’t meant to look finished.”
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