Tony Bevan: Painting 1980-87 at the ICA in London confirmed Bevan’s status as a leading figure in British painting. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Bevan moved from subjectivity towards...
Tony Bevan: Painting 1980-87 at the ICA in London confirmed Bevan’s status as a leading figure in British painting. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Bevan moved from subjectivity towards abstraction. At the core of Bevan’s art is an abiding preoccupation with confronting the self. While early figurative works such as Upturned Hands in Front of Window, 1991, are more literal, towards the end of the 1990s Bevan abandons nearly all reference to the face, leaving an abstract tangle of lines and creating an architectural space.