Article: EXHIBITION

EXHIBITION

Margaret Mellis: Paintings and Reliefs 1968-1978 At Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Pied Bull Yard, London WC1, until 2 July

These works dote from the second abstract geometric or 'Constructivist' phase in the long career of Margaret Mellis (now aged 91) and are from the late 1960s, when such ideas were in the air - an earlier abstract phase having spanned the Second World War in St Ives, writes James Dunnett.

What is noticeable is the robust character of Mellis' work - an interesting contrast to that of the 'scientific' Constructivists either of the 1960s or of today. Mellis did not aim for the immaculate execution that is characteristic of Gina Burdass' paintings (AJ 19.05.05), and ...

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