Surface Tension: British Painting in the 1990s

A gallery exhibition of British 1990s painting exploring how figurative and painterly artists thrived amid YBA conceptual dominance.

Ben Brown Fine Arts presents Surface Tension, a group exhibition examining how a small group of British painters worked and flourished during the 1990s, when the YBA movement dominated British art. The show highlights their shared preoccupation with surface, gesture and the physical act of painting, including work such as Gary Hume's gloss-on-aluminium Desmond (2001).