Vardaxoglou Gallery

About the Gallery
Established by Alex Vardaxoglou in 2020, Vardaxoglou is a London-based gallery specialising in modern and contemporary art. The gallery’s programme features exhibitions with a number of contemporary artists in the context of regular historical surveys that present pioneering artists to new audiences.

Vardaxoglou has presented the first solo exhibitions in London by Lewis Brander and Tanoa Sasraku, and opened Niamh O’Malley’s first solo exhibition in London, following her representing Ireland at 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. Shaan Syed’s first solo exhibition with Vardaxoglou opened at the gallery in 2023, and in the same year Vardaxoglou presented a solo exhibition with Sebastian Lloyd Rees, the artist’s first in London for 6 years.

In addition to working with living artists, Vardaxoglou Gallery represents the Estate of Robyn Denny, and in 2024 presented its first Robyn Denny exhibition, a survey of the artist’s career. In 2023, in collaboration with the Estate of Richard Smith, Vardaxoglou opened an exhibition of unseen kite paintings by Richard Smith, the first exhibition of its kind, and in the same year presented a survey exhibition on Howard Hodgkin’s portraits of artists, supported by the Estate of Howard Hodgkin.

Vardaxoglou is also active in publishing regular exhibition literature, artist’s books, monographs, texts, and special editions, on occasion of particular exhibitions and artist projects, which are all available to view at the gallery and often include contributions from prominent writers, curators, and art historians.

About the Presentation
Vardaxoglou Gallery (London, UK) and James Cope (Dallas, TX) will present solo presentation with British artist Lewis Brander (b. 1995, London, UK) at Independent.

For the artist’s debut in New York, the presentation includes a group of new paintings made in London over the past two years. Exploring the shifts in natural light in both Northern and Southern Europe, the colour of the sky has become a constant reference in Brander’s paintings since returning to London from Athens, Greece. 

In his paintings, Brander references sites of historical significance both to industrial London and also to his own familial history; his ancestors were refugees from Eastern Europe and settled near the area where he now works. Brander combines these histories with an interpretation of the historical movements of English romanticism, post-war American abstraction and the School of London painters. Lewis Brander’s paintings are a device for which light and atmosphere are not only observed and recorded, but a place in which the language and history of painting is played out.