Ha Ha What Does This Represent? - Standpoint

Ad Reinhardt, How to Look at Modern Art in America (detail), 1946

A detail from Ad Reinhardt's 1946 drawing, How to Look at Modern Art in America, provides the title for an exhibition of contemporary abstract painting at the Standpoint Gallery until 31 March: Ha Ha What Does This Represent? 

Exhibiting artists are:

Andrew Bick (lecturer on the MA Fine Art course at the University of Gloucestershire), Matthew Collings and Emma Biggs, Katrina Blannin, Hazel Chalk, Ben Cove, Stewart Geddes, Dan Hays, Vanessa Jackson, Roger Kelly, Caroline List, Gina Medcalf, Alex Gene Morrison, Carol Robertson, James Ryan, Francesca Simon, Daniel Sturgis and Trevor Sutton.

The exhibition is sponsored by abstract critical - see article by David Ryan.

NB Selected illustrations below are representative of the artists' work but are not necessarilly works included in the exhibition.

Andrew Bick, OGV [Double Spider] Dirty B, 2009

Emma Biggs & Matthew Collings, The Unseen, 2010

Katrina Blannin, Ultrapolation, 2009

Ben Cove, Crosses and Quadrangles, 2011

Alex Gene Morrison, Vanish, 2010

Carol Robertson, Starstream, 2011

Daniel Sturgis, Living Well, 2007

Trevor Sutton, Japanese Folk Song, 2011