Los Muertos on Conscientious and aCurator

Ahead of the 'Los Muertos' showing at Artjail this Thursday, here are two great articles on the series from:

Conscientious: Steve Pyke in Conversation with Joerg Colberg on the 'Los Muertos' series

aCurator: Full magazine photo feature

The opening show invite is also shown below for those in NY who would like to attend.

‘Los Muertos’ Steve Pyke
ARTJAIL 50 Eldridge Street,
6th Floor NYC, NY 10002
Septemeber 23rd – October 26th 2011
www.artjail.com

Los Muertos at Artjail NYC September 23rd - October 26th

Steve's series of still life portraits from the mummies of Guanajuato in Mexico entitled 'Los Muertos' will be on show in New York at Artjail from the 23rd September to the 26th October.

You can read a conversation between Joerg Colberg and Steve on the series here

‘Los Muertos’ Steve Pyke
ARTJAIL 50 Eldridge Street,
6th Floor NYC, NY 10002
Septemeber 23rd – October 26th 2011
www.artjail.com

Sean O'Hagan reviews 'Philosophers' on guardian Art blog

Sean O'Hagan wrote a review for Steve's 'Philosophers' series, currently on show at Flowers Gallery, London.

The full article can be read by clicking on the image below.




"The Philosophers series, like all portraits, tells us something about mortality – theirs and ours. "As time passes by and you look at portraits," Cartier-Bresson once said, "the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. Photography has something to do with death. It's a trace." One senses that AJ Ayer utterly understood that when he submitted his elderly, vulnerable self to Steve Pyke's scrutiny, setting this epic project in motion. In Pyke's portrait, Ayer's face is fixed forever in its calm inscrutability, defying us – and Pyke – to read it, sending the curious viewer elsewhere in search of meaning: towards his work, towards his words."

Steve Pyke, An interview with Scope magazine

Steve was interviewed recently for the Summer edition of Scope magazine. The full interview which looks at Steve's career in full can be found by clicking the image below or by subscribing to Scope online.

Steve discusses his approach to still life images on Hungry Eye Magazine

Hungry Eye Magazine's 'Daily Eye' features Steve talking about his approach to still life images in a 2-part special here (Pt 1) and here (Pt 2)


'Los Muertos' ©STEVE PYKE

Steve's still life's can be seen online here

Philosophers - The London Show from 7th Sep - 1st Oct

I'm having a London showing of my new Philosophers series which will co-incide with the UK book release of Philosophers, a second volume published by Oxford University Press.

It's at Flowers Central from September the 7th to October the 1st, the invite is attached along with the press release below.

Hope to see you there!



PRESS RELEASE

MAP

FLOWERS GALLERY

Steve Pyke - Poguetry, The Lyrics of Shane MacGowan

The following video is a visual tour of Poguetry, a rare book originally published in 1988 that combines the lyrics of Shane MacGowan, illustrations by John Hewitt and photographs by Steve Pyke. Foreward read by Steve Pyke.

Thanks to Lauren DeBell for producing this video.