Join us for an intimate one to one chat with Bex Massey in her east London studio as she prepares for her up coming solo show titled My Deuce, My Double.
The exhibition is a collaboration between Gertrude The Art App and Seventeen Gallery, taking place in May 2024.
In My Deuce, My Double Massey presents the viewer with isolated objects depicted in a soft realism, rendered in oil under an even light. Images are presented in relation to each other, two per work, a painted object depicted beside its partner to form a visual echo.
The image pairings within these paintings encourage allusion to female bodies, building an underlying sexual tension imbued by the artist into quotidian objects. This is further extended by an implied auditory element to the images, the scenes contain the potential of noise, whether it’s the moment a fizzy drink explodes or bubble gum bursting - force in one image, release in its partner image.