Goodman Gallery is delighted to present its inaugural exhibition with Caribbean British artist Winston Branch OBE (b. 1947), featuring a new series of abstract paintings that explore colour, light and space. The exhibition coincides with Goodman Gallery’s announcement of the global representation of the artist, in partnership with Varvara Roza Galleries.
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Branch moved to Britain from Saint Lucia in the 1960s at the early age of 12 and later studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where he was taught by Frank Auerbach, Euan Uglow, Keith Vaughan and Michael Andrews. He spent his early years studying and painting in London, during a highly productive time of underground movements that broke down social, cultural and artistic boundaries, with London emerging as a major international hub of counterculture. Branch has moved from Saint Lucia to London, to California, Germany and also Italy, all of which provide context for his innovations in the language of paint and colour.
While earlier works contained a sense of thickness about them, as if paint had been applied, reapplied, and applied again to create a sense of depth and intensity, the newer works are lighter and open themselves up across the surface. The works of the 1980s and 90s highlight extraordinary mark-making that is shorter and energetic, while recent paintings explore the placement of marks through large, dynamic brushstrokes that create a sense of expansion.
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Artist Bio
Winston Branch OBE is a prominent British artist originally from Saint Lucia.
Branch was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Berlin Artist program in Berlin
(DAAD), a fellowship in Belize from the Organisation of American States and was an Artist in Residence at Fisk University in Tennessee. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Greenwich, London. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts UCL. After graduating, he was awarded the Boise Travel Scholarship, the prestigious British Prix de Rome.
Works by Winston Branch are represented in the permanent collections of Tate Britain, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The British Museum, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, The Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paolo, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, The Legion of Honour de Young Museum in San Francisco, CA, The St Louis Museum of Art in Missouri, The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA, The Hamburger Kunsthalle Museum in Hamburg, The University of California at Berkeley, The Berkeley Art Museum and The Contemporary Art Society, UK.
