From February 3 to March 10, 2018, SMAC Gallery will present a solo exhibition of recent works by leading contemporary South African artist Simon Stone. Simon Stone is recognised as one of South Africa’s finest painters. Working predominantly in oils, he can be described as a lyrical and narrative Neo-Expressionist. Austere and delicate, his paintings revel in […]
From January 20 to February 24, 2018, SMAC Gallery, Johannesburg will present Samusha weiri Dongo, an exhibition of recent work by Zimbabwean artist Wallen Mapondera. Wallen Mapondera was born in 1985 in Harare, Zimbabwe. He received formal art training from the National Gallery School of Visual Arts and Design from 2005 to June 2007 and was selected that same […]
SMAC Gallery is pleased to present Der Abschied, a solo exhibition of new charcoal drawings and paintings by pre-eminent South African painter, Johann Louw. Der Abschied is Louw’s fourth solo exhibition in Johannesburg and his sixth with the gallery. Louw’s paintings are an intense response to notions of identity —testaments to a particular psychological spirit of place and time. […]
In an anxious era, when so much seems awry, we find ourselves grappling to remain optimistic. The exhibition Tired from Smiling quotes the thoughts of the world-weary heroine in Joan Didion’s Play it as it Lays. The 1970s novel deals with the ennui of contemporary society, and a woman who kills time and purpose by […]
SMAC Gallery is proud to present Knot I: I Knot, a new exhibition of paintings and ceramic sculptures by Marlene Steyn. Here, her characteristically elongated, distorted figures bend and twist in yoga-like positions, often writhing and transmuting into the sporting goods by which their actions are accompanied. Pale, slender arms embrace the aqueous contents of a swimming […]
Mongezi Ncaphayi’s latest body of work – produced for his solo exhibition, Which Way is East? – registers a fresh iteration in what is becoming the young painter/printmaker’s unfolding search for the sublime. This new selection of work comprises a series of vast horizontal vistas of abstract formulations; works on paper that grow and extend […]
Kenyan artist Cyrus Kabiru creates fantastical sculptural objects from recycled materials, scraps, and trash. Growing up in the Kibera slums of Kenya’s capital city, Kabiru confronted waste every morning, recalling that he woke to a view of a trash pile out his bedroom window. Using his own inventiveness as an antidote to the limited options […]
Shot in Sweden, the short film, LAGOM: Breaking Bread With the Self-Righteous sees an Appearance by Lhola Amira. She looks a little lost in a field of flowers in bloom, a vista of beauty, yellow everywhere – ‘everyone loves the sunshine’ reads graffiti on a wall at the harbour; she does not pluck a single […]
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SMAC Gallery presents Unbecoming, a solo exhibition of recent work by South African artist Alexandra Karakashian, featuring her signature style – a combination of used engine oil and traditional oil paint medium. Working on both linen and paper in varying sizes, chance plays a vital role in allowing Karakashian’s process to unfold. Springboarding from landscape painting and formal abstraction, her practice engages her signature subdued-palette […]
From May 27 to July 1, 2017, SMAC Gallery will present Certain Lengths by South African artist Ruann Coleman. Ruann Coleman’s artistic practice is based on play, impromptu juxtapositions, experiment, chance and the serendipity of random accident. Mostly free-standing, un-monumental, process-related and at times, in formation, his sculptures combine and amalgamate organic and inorganic found […]