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‘BILL JACKLIN: PEOPLE AND PLACES’ AT MARLBOROUGH GALLERY TO APRIL 28

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NEW YORK CITY — Marlborough Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by the British and American painter, Bill Jacklin, “People and Places,” on view through April 28.

The show will consist of approximately 33 oils on canvas executed in the last three years and will include subjects taken from visual encounters in both London and New York.

Jacklin’s work brings to light, both in a technical sense and through figuration, a gestalt that is his own. Regardless of the subject matter, each painting reveals a play about ambiguity. From a formal point of view the figuration is an ideogram, or visual parallel, for an underlying abstract structure. From the point of view of subject the works show manifestations of nature and figures in a state of transition.

John Russell Taylor in his monograph on Jacklin called him “New York’s definitive painter.” Taylor referred to Jacklin as “a painter of intense formal control and powerful formal obsessions” where “Realism, Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism come together in an explosive new fusion.”

In 1989 Jacklin was elected associate member of the Royal Academy, London (ARA), and in 1991, Royal Academician. In 1992 he had a retrospective exhibition, “Urban Portraits,” 1986–1992, at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, which traveled to Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Jacklin’s work can be found in 28 public collections including the British Museum, London; the Metropolitan Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Artists, Budapest; and Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The gallery is at 40 West 57th Street. For more information, 212-541-4900 or www.marlboroughgallery.com.