Named as The Independent’s ‘Artist To Watch’ and a successor to Tracey Emin - leading up to her first major solo exhibition in London at the ROLLO Contemporary Art in November 2011 Helen Carmel Benigson will present a series of prints in her signature hyper saturated, vibrant and provocative style.

Frank Bowling, following from the success of his solo exhibition of new works on paper at the Royal Academy of Arts and in anticipation of his forthcoming solo display at Tate Britain next spring, Royal Academician Frank Bowling will present an example of his latest body of poured paintings. In Green L. Bowling references his work of the seventies, experimenting with the materiality of paint, allowing the paint to flow down the centre of the canvas creating beautiful, overlaid textures.

Nadine Feinson’s paintings are deeply engaged with the materiality of paint and the process of making. Dragging, pressing, smearing paint across the surface of the canvas, abstract imprints articulate the movement and energy of paint. In a new departure, which will be shown for the first time in NEW, Feinson has begun pushing painting from its traditional 2D presentation into the 3D; creating semi sculptural paintings on polythene dust sheets, Visqueen plastic, duct tape and mdf, which are nevertheless considered as paintings rather than sculpture or installation. Using flat instruments such as a plasterers hawk, trowel and plank to drag paint across the surface and wiping back certain areas with a cloth, the act of moving paint across the surface of the polythene creates tears and holes in the material, destroying the traditional painting to creating an almost 'anti painting'. Presented as objects suspended from ceilings, leaning against walls or elsewhere hung on the wall - the action of static causes the polythene painting to cling like a film to the wall through electrical charge. As such Feinson's daring new works evoke both energy and fragility and push her painting to a new dimension.

Andrew Hollis presented as one of Britain’s best new painters at the Hangar Foundation, Salzburg earlier this year, Andrew Hollis’ paintings bring together juxtaposed found imagery from encyclopedias and year books from the 1960s and 70s that Hollis recreates in paint. Within each painting, elements of two or three different source images are incorporated into one canvas, creating an illusion of a different reality that can be unsettling yet alluring and evocative of a past age. Following the success of his solo exhibition at ROLLO and sell out show at the Hangar Foundation, Salzburg, earlier this year, NEW will present a group of paintings from Hollis’ latest body of work.

Jessica Lagunas, as a Guatemalan artist living and working in New York since 2000, the work of Jessica Lagunas isengaged with the socio-political issues of her native Guatemala and the U.S. and the impact of eachupon the other; exploring themes such as repression, violence, sexism, racism. In ‘“Ái Spik Ínglish” Lagunas uses custom-made rubber stamps to print phrases inspired by popular US pocket books used to teach English language to Hispanic immigrants. Referring to topics like work, the household, health-care, shopping, and surviving in the city, Lagunas stamps seven short dialogues, its English pronunciation spelt phonetically in Spanish. Imprinting them in the authoritarian red stamp that is evocative of the official government document and suggestive of the stamping on immigration documents, Lagunas piece is a powerful statement on systems of racism, judgment and control.

Sarah Lederman, Catlin Prize Winner Sarah Lederman’s paintings focus on the adolescent body as a site of flux toengage with and disrupt traditional representations of femininity. As a taster to her first solo exhibition, which will be held at ROLLO in summer 2012, NEW will include two new works by Lederman in which Lederman disguises her adolescents’ bodies behind thick layers of oils paints, leaving drips and breaks in the paint to reveal the fragility of the body beneath the surface of the paint.

Angela Reilly, BP Portrait Prize Winner 2006 and exhibitor 2008, 2011, Reilly’s arresting portraits investigate the luminosity and tone of flesh. Reilly’s almost photo-realist paintings technically exude the precision of an old master, likened to a contemporary Holbein. In her latest paintings Reilly scrutinizes her flesh to present a powerful portrait that comments on our preoccupation with aging, to evocatively communicate what is felt as well as seen in the flesh.

Stefanie Schneider, following the success of her solo exhibition at ROLLO Contemporary Art earlier this year, internationally renowned artist Stefanie Schneider will present a selection of images from her acclaimed Hitchhiker series. Using expired Polaroid film which is then enlarged, Schneider’s images both emphasise the sun drenched light of California and embody the cinematographic quality of the films of Quentin Tarantino and Oliver Stone. Although carefully staged, Schneider’s works are reminiscent of forgotten memories, dreams and chance encounters.


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