Meeting at the Horizon
Exhibition Dates: June 6 – July 5, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 7, 2025 | 5 – 8 PM
Voices of The Rocks: Friday, June 13, 2025 | 6:30 PM
An immersive evening exploring the visionary landscapes of Penny Slinger’s Women of the Rocks series. The event features a live poetry reading by the artist, accompanying the screening of her animated film Women of the Rocks – Inside Story.
Panel Discussion in Memory of Derek Boshier: Thursday, June 19, 2025 | 4 PM
Heartfelt discussion with Penny Slinger and Philip Vaughan sharing their personal stories, reflections, and memories of their friend and fellow artist, Derek Boshier. This special panel honors Boshier’s legacy and lasting impact on contemporary art.
Closing Reception: Saturday, July 5, 2025 | 5 – 8 PM
Location: Bergamot Station | Suite F2
2525 Michigan Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404
Business Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12 – 6 PM
ALOV Art proudly presents Meeting at the Horizon, an exhibition bringing together three pioneering artists—Derek BOSHIER, Penny SLINGER, and Philip VAUGHAN—whose creative journeys first intersected during 1960s London and converged once more in Los Angeles decades later.
The horizon—both a literal boundary and a symbolic vanishing point—is where parallel lines, lives, and legacies meet. In this exhibition, it becomes a powerful metaphor for transformation, memory, and convergence. Through diverse media including painting, collage, sculpture, photography, and animation, the artists reflect on personal journeys and broader cultural landscapes.
Featured Artists
Derek Boshier
A central figure in the British Pop Art movement, Derek Boshier gained early recognition alongside David Hockney and Allen Jones while studying at the Royal College of Art. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, film, installation, and design, with collaborations ranging from The Clash to David Bowie.
Boshier’s work consistently explores the tension between the individual and mass culture, using irony, color, and symbolism to critique modern life. In his Cellphone series, banal black-and-white scenes contrast with vivid memories rendered in color, or vice versa, capturing the dissonance between physical presence and digital distraction. His Falling Man series, especially 1983 oil painting Man Falling Wearing a Mexican Mask reveals a more expressionistic and theatrical sensibility, evoking mythic themes of vulnerability, fall, and transformation. Boshier’s art remains both culturally incisive and visually seductive.
His works are held in major museum collections worldwide: Tate, the Victoria and Albert Museum, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, the British Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. But perhaps Boshier’s greatest collection is the one he left behind in people’s minds – unpredictable, witty, unflinchingly awake.
Penny Slinger
A surrealist of sacred feminine, Penny Slinger emerged from London’s Chelsea School of Art in the late 1960s with a bold visual language that interrogated the subconscious, sexuality, and feminism. Influenced by Surrealist master Max Ernst and her association with Roland Penrose, Slinger has developed a radical body of work across collage, film, photography, sculpture, and performance.
In Meeting at the Horizon, she presents her recent series Women of the Rocks, a collection of photomontages blending Utah’s geological landscapes with nude female forms creating sacred, dreamlike environments where body and nature merge. These works build upon her decades-long exploration of the feminine in relationship to myth and environment.
Slinger’s work has been exhibited internationally and held in permanent collections including the Tate and the Verbund Collection. In 2019, she was commissioned by Dior to create an immersive installation for their haute couture show in Paris, further affirming that her vision, rooted in the esoteric and embodied through the feminine, continues to shape culture far beyond the confines of art.
Philip Vaughan
An adventurous and multidisciplinary artist, Philip Vaughan has spent decades exploring the relationship between light, space, and form. Trained at Cambridge and Chelsea School of Art, Vaughan first gained attention for his kinetic light sculptures such as Neon Tower at the Hayward Gallery. His practice spans painting, public installations, architectural design, and animatronics for Walt Disney.
In this exhibition, Vaughan presents a new body of abstract paintings inspired by navigation, geometry, and memory. Using marine charts as a base, his works become visual meditations on distance and movement, where the logic of maps intersects with the emotional language of color and line. In Walking Tall, brought to life through projection mapping in collaboration with multimedia artist Lucinda Dilworth, Vaughan’s painted world pulses with light. Here, motion becomes memory, and abstraction becomes experience.
His work is housed in numerous private and institutional collections, including the Museum of Neon Art in Los Angeles and the Arts Council of Great Britain. Yet it’s not just what Vaughan builds that lasts, it’s the way his work teaches us to look again, to slow down, to navigate the unknown with grace.
Curated by Emm Suleymanov, this exhibition offers a rare convergence of three bold voices in contemporary art, each with a legacy of pushing boundaries and a shared spirit of adventure. Meeting at the Horizon invites viewers to reflect on the forces that shape our paths, the landscapes we pass through, and the connections we rediscover along the way.
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