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Moving vista

Andrew Lambirth

Wednesday, 8th October 2008

Joan Eardley
The Fleming Collection, 13 Berkeley Street, London W1, until 20 December

At Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albemarle Street, W1, Allen Jones (born 1937), fresh from the success of his Chatsworth commission (see Arts, 23 August), shows new work (until 25 October). His exhibition is entitled Showtime, which is also the title of the most eye-catching piece here: a wavy blue-green screen of glass-reinforced composite lined with leather, depicting a dancing female. Her outstretched leather-clad arm and a single red stiletto emerge from one end of this sexy, undulating form. All the rest is suggestion. Once again, Jones brilliantly crosses the line between sculpture and furniture, as he has done so controversially in the past. Also in the show is a vast two-part stainless steel reclining figure entitled ‘Juno’. Smaller sculptures, paintings and prints provide a substantial context for these glorious pieces.

Meanwhile at the Redfern Gallery, 20 Cork Street, W1, is an exhibition of new work by Danny Markey (born 1965), called Paintings of South Wales (until 30 October). He paints mostly small intimate pictures, reliably matter-of-fact but enjoyably painterly. He is a poet of the suburbs, offering glimpses of gable ends, transit vans, lighted windows and the trail of sodium lights indicating a major road.