Dalek & Delta exhibition, London

American artist James Marshall and Amsterdam-based former graffiti maestro Boris Tellegen have this month come together in London for Dalek & Delta - a show that innovately illustrates and brings out both men's work through the comparison with each other.

Marshall (aka Dalek), who originally trained under Takashi Murakami, comes to the table with several expansive canvases, layered with meticulous sheets of geometric shapes and high-colour forms.

Tellegen – or Delta as he prefers to be known - draws more from his street art lineage, creating architectonic, block-like forms and adapting three-dimensional sculptural sensibilities to his canvas-based brief. Textured and tonal, the pieces stand in delicate contrast to Dalek’s Missoni-style patterns.

Taking shape in London’s Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, Dalek & Delta’s subtle agenda shines through the geometric canvases – the differences in both artist’s works come dexterously blurred, producing a coherent, yet vaguely jarring whole.

Drawing, Delta


Sub Element 1, Delta


Redwood Paper Mould, 2007, Delta


Untitled, 2009, Dalek


Untitled, 2009, Dalek

Control Rods, 2008, Delta

Untitled, 2009, Dalek


INFORMATION

Event dates
28 August 2009 to 26 September 2009

Website
http://www.elmslesters.co.uk/
Telephone
44.20 7836 6747
Address
Elms Lesters Painting Rooms
1-3-5 Flitcroft St
London
WC2H 8DH