Franco-British artist Delphine Hogarth Lafaye creates mixed-media paintings on canvas by playing with color and using a sense of humor. While her paintings remain graphic and abstracted in terms of the recognizable shapes featured, a few figurative details act as clues to guide the eye of the viewer into the buried story. These clues make sure the viewer is included into the subtle communication she attempts to create.
Although the classical perspective has been mostly banished, color explores a far-away and close spatial environment within the painting. It is sometimes subdued with thinner layers, but occasionally jumps out of the canvas. Opaque and transparent areas spawn openings and holes where sensibilities are conjured.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Modern Tales, Thackeray Gallery, London, UK
2020 Outskirts, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York
2018 Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York
2016 Chapters, Thackeray Gallery, London, UK
2013 People, Zero10 Gallery, London, UK
2012 Zero10 Gallery, London, UK
2010 L’Etage du Froid, Fat Galerie, Paris, France
2009 Urban Blueprints, Piers Feetham Gallery, London, UK
2007 Room with a Woman, Fat Galerie, Paris, France
Selected Two-Person Shows
2022 Couples, Thackeray Gallery, London, UK
Selected Mixed Shows
2022 For the Love of Chardin, First Street Gallery, New York
2022 Selected Yicca - International Contest of Contemporary Art, The Matalon Foundation, Milan, Italy
2020 Selected Carré sur Seine, Paris, France
2019 Annual Winter Group Show, Thackeray Gallery, London, UK
2018 Selected John Moores Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Museum of Liverpool, UK
Life is Beautiful, Atlantic Gallery, New York
Annual Summer Group Show, Thackeray Gallery, London, UK
2017 Selected Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Selected Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France
Annual Summer Group Show, Josie Eastwood Fine Art Gallery,Hampshire, UK
Annual Winter Group Show, Thackeray Gallery, London, UK
2016 Selected The Columbia Threadneedle Prize, Mall Gallery, London, UK
2015 Selected Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Gallery, London, UK
Annual Summer Group Show, Thackeray Gallery, London, UK
UK Art for Youth, Art Fair, Mall Gallery, London, UK
3 New Artists, Thackeray Gallery, London, UK
2014 UK Art for Youth, Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Annual Winter Group Show, Thackeray Gallery, London, UK
2013 UK Art for Youth, Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2010 Debut, John Martin Gallery, London, UK
20-21 International Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2009 12 Figures, Fat Galerie, Paris, France
20-21 International Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2006 Pop Up, Loft Sévigné, Fat Galerie, Paris, France
2002 Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd hui, Art Fair, Espace Effeil-Branly, Paris, France
2001 Annual Winter Group Show, Galerie Quincampoix, Paris, France
2000 Grands et Jeunes d’Aujourd’hui, Art Fair, Espace Auteuil, Paris, France