Brash baubles out, black and white images in. Butler and Wilson no more, the two-story space on Lebury Road in Notting Hill (across the street from BBB) has reopened its doors to reveal a clean, serene gallery beswept of all tacky blinged clutter and overpriced vintage frocks. Doyle Devere is the brainchild of Canadian (I know, I forgive her) artist Maeve Doyle and kicks off its status as a nascent showcaser of art with a presentation of photographer Raif Adelberg's black and white pop culture images. Creepy clowns peering out from behind glass panes, profane graffiti scrawled over the walls and Union Jacks deconstructed and reimagined, the exhibit was clean and simple, yet visually rich and compelling.Blogged out and only attending because the gallery is literally a stone's through from where I live and friends schlepping in from East London would not have been happy if I'd given way to the siren call of my couch, Doritos and a new episode of Gossip Girl. But, fortuitous as ever, upon setting foot in the gallery, I bumped into my friend and black and white photographer extraordinaire, Markus Maverick. So not only did I emerge from the evening about which I had not intended to blog with a smattering of cool, funky images from Markus where he juxtaposed gallery visitors with the photographs on display, taking care to match his subjects personalities and facial features to those of the specimen captured in Adelberg's originals, but I also managed to hook him for an upcoming shoot for Connoisseur Magazine. A picture really is worth a thousand words--or at least a thousand more pictures.
DOYLE DEVERE presents All I have are my dreams, original photographs by Raif Adelberg is on November 10th 2009 to January 11th 2010.
DOYLE DEVERE, 30 Ledbury Road, London W11 2AB.
Click here for the gallery's website
Photos by Markus Maverick
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