
1301PE is pleased to announce its third exhibition with the preeminent British painter Paul Winstanley. For more than a decade, Winstanley has created paintings that challenge our way of seeing.
Winstanley speaks directly to our human condition in a post-war period. His paintings are familiar places built in a time of hope for a future of social order and prosperity. These walkways, waiting rooms, TV lounges, highway service stations, lobbies are the in between places. They are the places we don’t think about on our way to utopia. They are often the uncared for space in our world, yet, in fact, they are the transitional space which shift our paradigm. Winstanley’s paintings are of the here and now. They demand that we are present. We enter them first visually, then psychologically, and then physically.
For the current exhibition, he presents us with two florescent-lit pedestrian walkways and a veiled view to nature. Here he is at him most minimal and severe as the paintings lure us in.
Paul Winstanley was born in 1955 in Manchester, England; he works and lives in London. His recent exhibitions include Roche Court, the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin and Gallerie Munro, Hamburg. His work is represented in numerous public and private collections, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery, the British Council, the European Parliament, the New York City Public Library and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.






Paul Winstanley (b. 1954 in Manchester, UK) is best known for his delicate paintings from photographs, which pull beauty from quotidian environs with tactile precision. Wavering between photographic realism and painterly softness, Winstanley’s works call into question the quiet psychology of public and private spaces. The role of the viewer is central to an understanding of Winstanley’s paintings and his occasional use of the figure echoes that active passivity. Engrossed, they watch, look, wait, smoke, phone, text. Schooled in the orthodoxies of abstract Modernism, Winstanley spent a decade after studying at Cardiff College of Art from 1973-76 and the Slade from 1976-78 establishing a new visual language, combining the tenets of minimalism with the pictorialism of photography. His breakthrough showing of the large painting ‘Walkway’ at the Whitechapel Open in 1989 won him the first prize Unilever Award.

Founded by Brian Butler in 1992, 1301PE is a contemporary art gallery exhibiting significant Los Angeles based artists as well as internationally established and acclaimed artists. The gallery is known for its exhibition of significant work across mediums. Founded on the principle of promoting Los Angeles artists worldwide, the gallery has been located at its current location in Miracle Mile, Los Angeles since 1998.

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