Not monochrome works, but any painting containing even a touch of red filled the bill for the show, Red, at the One Off gallery; both fashionably online (by the force of circumstance if not desire) and happily, physically on the walls as well.
Then there is an untitled mixed media piece by Nicy Aluoch with its spatters of white paint over indications of flowers and fragments of type, which shows a certain bravado, while Sammy Lutaya’s Evening Crown is a Surrealist essay of a human figure morphing into perky guinea fowl; the reddist painting in a very red show.
This repurposed collage with its fractured planes set against a bold red and black background attempted to create a new reality reflecting the mood of the title.
Called Insecurities, this repurposed collage with its fractured planes set against a bold red and black background attempted to create a new reality reflecting the mood of the title.
The quality of any open show can be variable — there were works there that might not thrill us all — but the prices reflected this and there was a lot to like too… so much so that if you turn up with your cheque book you could just end up, well, in the red.
