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From: Nned Thisom Category: Art Date: 04 February 2009 Time: 05:33 AM Review: The Macabre Masterpiece of Terror is an exhibition of three large works by Kirsten Glass, Adam King and Peter Lamb, at least that was what the press release said, infact there were two pieces by each of the boys. Kirsten Glass impressed me several years ago with a large four panel painting, exhibited in a show at Empire, on which she had painted, among other things, a quote from a Kelis song, 'Damn Right It's Better Than Yours'. Boldy brilliant I thought, and true, as much as I try to recall it, I can't remember anything else from that show. Since then I haven't seen many things from her so it was with a sense of eagerness I went to see this show today. The painting she has in the show, made this year, has three female figures painted onto it, mostly in black and white with uneven outlines in luminous pink and yellow. The styles are jumpy and seem to pay quite a debt to Gerhard Richter, with the blurring of one of the faces, and also with the playful use of a squeegy reminiscent of Richters abstract paintings. This painting also seemed to me to be the considered work of a mature artist, but one who was still not settled into too much of a groove to become boring. This brings me nicely onto Peter Lambs work. Peter Lamb for me is possibly the most interesting artist who has been exhibiting in London over the past few years. His 'Mein Got' paintings at Holdsworth a couple of years ago were standout pieces, maybe because of the stuffed fox jutting out from them, maybe for some uncanny feeling they left me with, maybe for their boldness or maybe just because it is so rare to see artwork that looks truly original. The dense lollipop pieces in the 'People Like Us' exhibition, sitting upon old paint buckets and resting againt the walls made the rest of the painting in that show seem even more insignificant than it was (and it was). Now he is still working with collaged elements, tearing large printed images up, but just a little, applying splatterings of paint and poking small LEDs through the pictures from behind. The large picture in this show, 'My Future Was Then', as with Glass, looked very much like an artist on the right track and having a good time with it. A smaller one featuring an image from a playing card also had LEDs coming through its surface. I left the show with another song running round my head, this time by Gwen Stefani 'If I Was a Rich Girl'. I'd have all the paintings in the show.