Terry Haggerty - Sikkema Jenkins & Co, NY

Terry Haggerty, Rotational Rest, 2015

Terry Haggerty is at Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York until 17 October 2015.
Terry Haggerty (BA Fine Art, University of Gloucestershire, 1992) paints rhythmic ribbons of colour on shaped panels of wood and aluminium. The monochrome lines twist and turn through precisely calculated patterns creating a seductive oscillation between flatness and an illusory three dimensionality. The acrylic paint is layered with varnish to create an immaculate finish. Beautiful.
Watch a video interview with Terry Haggerty from 2013.

Terry Haggerty, Relative Density, 2015

Terry Haggerty, Memory Trace, 2015

Terry Haggerty, Easily Lost, 2015

Terry Haggerty, Fuse Link, 2015

Terry Haggerty, Torque, 2015

Terry Haggerty, Hollow Core, 2015

Jason Brooks - Marlborough Contemporary

Jason Brooks, Origin I, 2015

Jason Brooks: Origins is at Marlborough Contemporary until 18 July 2015.
Jason Brooks (BA Fine Art, University of Gloucestershire, 1991) is a painter of extraordinary facility who executes monumental photo-realist portraits and richly textured abstractions with equal virtuosity. His work is also typically informed by a wickedly subversive intelligence and sense of humour - as is evident in the current show.
The visceral impact of the 'Origin' paintings is well described in the catalogue by Michael Bracewell,
 ... a seeming molten, liquefying, congealing, drooling, dripping, flaring and trailing chaos of ridges and deltas and novas and marbled accretions of alternately Stygian and industrially-bright multi-coloured paints.
The eye is seduced by the apparently wholly abstract gloops of colour until following the diagonals leading in from the top corners it detects a form coalescing out of the chaos, one that is irresistibly suggestive of Gustave Courbet's scandalous L'Origine du Monde (1866).
Download the exhibition catalogue here. 

Jason Brooks, Origin II, 2015

Jason Brooks, Origin III, 2015

Jason Brooks, Origin III, 2015 (detail)

Jason Brooks, Origin IV, 2015

Jason Brooks, Origin V, 2015

Jason Brooks, Origin VI, 2015

Jason Brooks, Origin I, 2015 (detail)

John Moores Painting Prize - Walker Art Gallery

Neal Rock, Inked Prosperon / 0813

The John Moores Painting Prize is at the Walker Art Gallery until 30 November 2014.
The biennial John Moores is, I think, the best of art competitions. Established in 1957 it has a venerable history and includes amongst its past winners (never mind the roll call of participants) Patrick Heron (1959), Roger Hilton (1963), David Hockney (1967), Euan Uglow (1972), John Hoyland (1982), Lisa Milroy (1989), Peter Doig (1993) and Dan Hays (1997). (See the full list here.) This year's official winner will be announced in September from the shortlist below. However, my winner is Neal Rock (see above) for his exquisite, Baroque extrusions of paint. (Rock is, incidentally, a graduate of Fine Art at the University of Gloucestershire, 1996-9).  
Others which caught my attention include:

Jane Bustin, Christina the Astonishing

James Byrne, Book

Wayne Clough, Citadel

Tim Renshaw, nowhere

Trevor Sutton, Christow

However, the actual shortlist is as follows:

Rae Hicks, Sometimes I Forget That You're Gone

Juliette Losq, Vinculum

Mandy Payne, Brutal

Alessandro Raho, Jessica

Rose Wylie, PV Windows and Floorboards

See a gallery of all the selected work here.