ANTON HENNING
Portrait No. 153, 2006
Oil on canvas
62 x 74-1/2 inches (157.3 x 189.2 cm)
ANTON HENNING was born in 1964 in Berlin and lives and works in both Berlin and Manker, Germany.

Henning has had solo exhibitions at Zach Feuer Gallery, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld and MARTa Herford. Solo exhibitions of his work will open at SMAK, Belgium in 2007, at the Gemeente Museum; Den Haag in the Netherlands in July 2007 and at the Arp Museum in Germany in the fall of 2007. Anton Henning's work is represented in the permanent collections of numerous museums including Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland; Arp Museum, Rolandseck, Germany; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, Germany; De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands and Nerman Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.


KATY MORAN was born in Manchester, England in 1975. She currently lives and works in London. Following the completion of her MA in painting at the Royal College of Art, London in 2005, Moran was featured in the "ArtReview 25: London MA Graduates" in July 2006.

Known for her gestural abstractions of thickly layered oil paint, Moran employs the sweeping brushstrokes of artist's like Willem de Kooning and applies them to oval shaped canvases. In a similar vein, her paintings incorporate elements of chance, blurring the line between figuration and abstraction, allowing her images to exhibit characteristics of both of these disciplines. Beyond Abstract Expressionism, her varied palette recalls both the lightheartedness of Rococo painting and the turbulent emotional landscapes of Romanticism.

Moran has exhibited widely in Europe and was recently introduced to American audiences in her first New York group exhibition at 303 Gallery in summer 2006. Prior to her solo exhibition at Stuart Shave Modern Art (2006), Moran had exhibited at Grusenmeyer, Belgium, Young Art from London, Berlin and the Royal College of Art, London. In 2007 her upcoming exhibitions include Old Space New Space at Gagosian Gallery, New York as well as a show at Mead Gallerym Warwick, England, at Engholm Galerie, Vienna and at Vamiali, Athens.


ANSELM REYLE was born in born in Tübingen, Germany in 1970. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

Reyle's stripe paintings are instantly recognizable as responses to the formalist vocabulary of Clement Greenberg that defined the art of the 1950s and 1960s. Reyle references iconic abstractionists ranging from Kenneth Noland to Otto Freundlich. Reyle's "objets trouvés," a reference to his multi-media installations that include sculpture and found neon lights, are in constant dialogue about the role of modernism today.

Reyle's critique of painting extends to his exploration of the constantly shifting criteria required for a work to be considered complete. He is one of few contemporary German painters examining the lessons of abstraction and their place in contemporary painting at a moment when figurative painting has gained critical momentum.

The artist's past solo exhibitions include an show of new sculptures and paintings at Kunsthalle Zurich (2006); the Modern Institute in Glasgow, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin and Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York. He has also participated in numerous international group exhibitions including Migros Museum, Zurich and the Galeria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento.


HAYLEY TOMPKINS was born in 1971 in Glasgow, Scotland, where she currently lives and works. She received both her BA and MFA from the Glasgow School of Art.

Tompkins works in watercolors on an intimate scale, necessitating a careful consideration on the viewer's part of her fragile forms. Scale plays a central role in the viewer's experience of her work and is a direct response to the contemporary trend for big painting and expansive canvases.

Her use of small scraps, notebook paper and informal surfaces question the completeness of her work. Tompkins has said that she makes an "attempt to retrieve images of other paintings in my mind. Like remembering. The paintings feel aged to me already, like I am making ready-made objects and inserting them into history straight away." Her current projects include an ongoing collaboration with her sister, Sue Tompkins.

Tompkins' past solo exhibitions have included the Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2006, 2003) Modern Institute, Glasgow, (2000, 2002, 2005), and Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, (2005). Her group exhibitions include DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin (2004, 2005) and the Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, (1998, 1999). Past museum exhibitions include Solo Show, Solo Soul at FRAC, France (2004) and Beck Futures at ICA London.