Eleven Fine Art, London, 26 February to 28 March 2009

from Eleven Fine Art:

Roland Hicks’ meticulous hyperrealist paintings magnify the insignificant: bubbles, chewing gum, all the overlooked detritus of our daily life. For his first solo show at Eleven, he concentrates on tumbleweeds of fluff. Found by the artist, these mini-sculptures of the ephemeral become on the canvases, alluring semi-abstract figures. The tense relationship between figuration and abstraction is a recurrent feature of Hicks’ work. Neither completely one nor the other, his paintings exist at the threshold between both. In this series, only the horizon line in the background allows us to situate the object in an illusionary three-dimensional space, and even this space is indeterminate. It’s a limbo of dark, neutral colours, whose unique function is to highlight the sculptural quality of the object represented.

Artworks

	GIVE TO ME SOME PURPOSE I Just Can't Stop It, Eleven Fine Art Gallery 2009, oil on canvas, 40cm x 40cm	view
	IT FOLLOWS I Just Can't Stop It, Eleven Fine Art Gallery 2009, Oil on canvas, 50 x 50cm	view
	HOW THEY GET AROUND YOU I Just Can't Stop It, Eleven Fine Art Gallery 2009, oil on canvas, 50cm x 50cm	view
	RETURN OF THE BLACK ROLLER I Just Can't Stop It, Eleven Fine Art Gallery 2009, Oil on canvas, 76cm x 76cm	view
	I COME FROM OPEN PRAIRIE I Just Can't Stop It, Eleven Fine Art Gallery 2009, Oil on canvas, 102 x 102cm	view
	THE PROSPECTOR I Just Can't Stop It, Eleven Fine Art Gallery 2009, Oil on canvas, 76x76cm	view