Thirty-Third Exhibition

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As part of EXHIBIT gallery’s ongoing White Walls Project, NO WAY is pleased to present ‘All Those Things That Make My Eyes Blink’, a solo exhibition by Katy Binks.

From the clean, geometric, ‘heartily hued paintings’ (The Independent) Katy Binks has created a new body of screenprints, that rather than seeking calm and order, embrace the confusion of visual stimuli we are confronted with in the modern city, and progresses towards sensory extremes. What is in essence black paint on white paper, lines and shapes, is perceived entirely differently. The viewer sees foreground and background, shapes trapped or hovering between the two, suggesting depth and space – but the presence of white borders draws your attention back to the fact that those are not spaces but images in themselves.

“It’s actually the things I detest, I don’t like all those things that make my eyes blink” said David Hockney in response to ‘The Responsive Eye’ an exhibition of Op art presented at MOMA in 1965. Praised by others as ‘supremely democratic’, the trompe-d’oeil effect with its direct physiological impact, that Hockney detested can be traced in Katy’s new series.

Living in Peckham, the African batik and Dutch wax prints the artist encounters daily inform the aesthetics of a new series of large-scale screenprints. These are presented alongside a series of black and white works, three dimensional forms that meet on two dimensional planes: conceptually, the works address the theories and questions solicited by Abstraction and Optical art of the 60s, as “an inquiry into the very nature of vision, a shift from a focus on the objective world of appearance to the subjective realm of experience” (Dave Hickey).