Category: Latest news
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Bay Backner interviewed by Valencia TV News about her Art Walk initiative
Valencia’s A Punt TV News report about Art Walk, interviewing Bay about the aims of the initiative.
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Bay Backner brings together eleven independent galleries for Art Walk Valencia
Bay created Art Walk Valencia as a new initiative to support independent art spaces in her city. Bay was interviewed by both Valencia TV news and radio, with some Art Walk spaces welcoming more than 300 visitors.
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Bay Backner to show embroidered paintings about solitude, isolation and hope at Jan Royce Gallery
For new exhibition ¡Abril Despierta! Bay has made five figurative artworks in oil paint and hand-embroidery. These explore how identities are being shaped by this year’s pandemic, specifically how its experiences affect our subconscious minds.
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Bay Backner in reopening exhibition at Blacks London
Blacks London set to reopen on 17th May. The legendary private members’ club will show two paintings by Bay Backner, curated in a collective exhibition by Runway Gallery.
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‘Blancanieves’ embroidered oil painting in art exhibition at Galeria Cuatro, Valencia
Bay is now showing Blancanieves, her new large-scale embroidered oil painting at Galeria Cuatro, Valencia. The work is part of collective exhibition Sexto Sentido, on show at the gallery until 3rd March 2021.
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Galeria Cuatro exhibition “Sexto Sentido” to show new large-scale embroidered painting by Bay Backner
Bay is showing new work in the latest exhibition at Valencia gallery Galería Cuatro. The show, Sexto Sentido, will open this Thursday, 29th January. Bay will debut her latest large-scale embroidered painting Blancanieves (Snow White), a 114×146 canvas. Galería Cuatro’s director Miguel Castello was yesterday interviewed by newspaper Las Provincias….
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Showing New Surrealist Paintings in Collaboration with Valencia’s The RW Project
Bay is currently showing new paintings in The RW Project space in Valencia’s arts district, Russafa. The project, titled Eve is a collaboration between Bay, RW founder and writer Kristin Gracie, and filmmaker Steve Kempen. Bay is showing six new large-scale surrealist oil paintings, including Eve (2020) which was especially painted for the collaboration. Other…
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New Mixed-Media Artworks on Paper to be available at Runway Gallery, London
Bay has been invited to curate nine new mixed-media artworks for a Runway Gallery special event this month. The works will be available in the gallery’s “From the studio” sale, an online showcase of experimental sketches, sketchbook work and artists’ proofs. Bay selected the nine works on paper from her developmental sketches for the “Flower…
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“Eve” solo show to open at Russafa’s RW Project Space
Bay will open a solo show with The RW Project in Russafa on New Years Eve, 31st December 2020. The exhibition “Eve” is a collaboration with the curator-director of the RW Project, Kristin Gracie. Exploring ideas of transformation, the show was inspired by Paul Roussel’s 1908 sculpture “Eve o La Pomme”. Gracie encountered the sculpture…
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New Flower Women Series to be exhibited virtually with Kunstmatrix
Bay is to exhibit her new series of large-scale paintings, Flower Women, virtually with Kunstmatrix. The online show will be available to view throughout December 2020, with a 3D guided tour of the six new works. Kunstmatrix is a innovative Berlin-based gallery platform specialising in online, virtual exhibitions.
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