{"id":5873,"date":"2016-11-13T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=5873"},"modified":"2016-11-08T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T00:49:07","slug":"david-hepher-at-flowers-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/13\/david-hepher-at-flowers-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"David Hepher at Flowers Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British painter David Hepher explains that like landscape painters before him (Constable, Turner, Cezanne), he paints spaces with which he\u2019s familiar, returning again and again to explore nuances of the well-known. For Hepher, that means South London tower blocks, hulking brutalist buildings whose concrete walls have seen better days. Merging distant views and closeups of spray painted walls and graffiti, this painting both closely examines tower life and keeps it at a distance. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flowersgallery.com\/exhibitions\/view\/david-hepher-1\" target=\"_blank\">Flowers Gallery<\/a> in Chelsea through Dec 10<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5874\" style=\"width: 258px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5874\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5874\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5874\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/david_hepher-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"David Hepher, one of three panels in \u2018Durrington Towers II,\u2019 concrete, acrylic, spray paint and inkjet on canvas, 106 x 90 \u00bc inches, 2007.\" width=\"258\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/david_hepher-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/david_hepher-1200x1396.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/david_hepher.jpg 1907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Hepher, one of three panels in \u2018Durrington Towers II,\u2019 concrete, acrylic, spray paint and inkjet on canvas, 106 x 90 \u00bc inches, 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British painter David Hepher explains that like landscape painters before him (Constable, Turner, Cezanne), he paints spaces with which he\u2019s familiar, returning again and again to explore nuances of the well-known. For Hepher, that means South London tower blocks, hulking brutalist buildings whose concrete walls have seen better days. Merging distant views and closeups of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/13\/david-hepher-at-flowers-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;David Hepher at Flowers Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[1362,8,147,18,6514,571,4823,9,6509,6510,1679,13,432,6513,856,33,6511,16,6512],"class_list":["post-5873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-architecture","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-brutalist","tag-chelsea-tour","tag-concrete","tag-contemporary","tag-david-hepher","tag-durrington-towers-ii","tag-flowers","tag-gallery","tag-gallery-tour","tag-high-rise","tag-painter","tag-painting","tag-south-london","tag-tour","tag-tower-blocks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1wJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5875,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions\/5875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}