Meeting at the Horizon
June 6 – July 5, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 7 | 5 – 8 PM
Artist Talks & Panel Discussion (RSVP): Thursday, June 19 | 4 PM
Closing Reception: Saturday, July 5 | 5 – 8 PM
Location: Bergamot Station | Suite F2
2525 Michigan Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404
ALOV Art proudly presents Meeting at the Horizon, an exhibition reuniting three pioneering artists—Derek BOSHIER, Penny SLINGER, and Philip VAUGHAN—whose creative journeys first intersected in London during the radical 1960s and now converge once more in Los Angeles.
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, capturing the dissonance between physical presence and digital distraction. His 1983 work 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.
Penny Slinger
A trailblazer of feminist surrealism, 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 the sacred feminine. 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. Also featured is a deeply personal series of collage portraits of Derek Boshier, fusing his image with his own art in a tribute to their lasting artistic dialogue.
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.
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.
