Reviews
28th October 2010
By Sarah Mayhew
Sarah Mayhew looks at a new art project taking place in an unusual - or should that be - ordinary setting. ...
Turn right, two roads in, then right again, and you’ll find the hidden gem of Notfamousyet Art Consultancy’s latest exhibition, Invasion of Privacy, nestled in the corner of a residential home (no. 19) Barnet Street, a stone’s throw from the Cowley Road in East Oxford.... read on
Small Artworks with big Impact
8th December 2009
By Lita Doolan
The individual talents of the dozen artists displayed at the ‘Notfamousyet’ gallery in St Clements are brought into sharp focus by the miniaturist approach of the curator. Small pieces only have been selected so increasing the artistic clarity of the work as each artist has both admirably and ruthlessly decided what to leave out. ....
Gallery openings
19th November 2009
By Andrew Smith
... What is art? This is a question that has vexed great thinkers over the centuries. But the question that could be asked in Oxford currently is where is art? This is because new galleries seem to be cropping up in a range of places, particularly empty shops....
Notfamousyet, as it sounds, provides a platform for up-and-coming international artists and has been set up by Gabriele Dangel. ...
.... There is also a good deal of originality in places. Ping-Yeh Li, a graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, presents the viewer with a strange combination of scientific presentation and grotesque physical forms. Documenting fictitious plant forms found in the Edinburgh region for an equally fictitious professor, Li gives us paintings and sculptures with all the appropriate biological parts catalogued and labelled, despite the “plants” looking as if they’d be more at home on the cover of a prog rock album....
OBscene (Brookes Student magazine)
20 Sept 2009
..."There are no jaw-dropping gimmicks upon entering, but there is a definite sense of excitement. Only until talking to the owner are you aware of the progressive ideas that uphold the gallery. ...When standing in front of the art work displayed by graduates such as Ufuk Gueray and Magali Bellugo as part of the "Graduates Pick" current exhibition, I found myself impressed by the ability of the work to connect to the viewers on so many different levels...
20 August 2009
...."But every now and then, you can find a real gem. Take for instance my favourite upstart gallery in Oxford - “Not Famous Yet” (www.notfamousyet.co.uk|) and the work of Artist Julie Monaco.
Besides the fact that the gallery has the avant garde approach of hosting exhibitions in unusual locations (this time a chapel), Julie Monaco generates an immediate cult following...."
Oxford Mail
1 August 2009
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Oxford-Paris (Blog byLucile Deslignères)
1 August 2009
Now you see
.. the most striking really is Julie Monaco's work called well I'm not sure how it's called actually but it is made completely from a computer: no acrylic painting, no pictures re-worked on photoshop, no: completely from the machine. Julie even went all the way to some LA image studio to learn the craft...more
Oxford Times
30 June 2009
Art: Notfamousyet in Oxford
Something strange will happen this summer as the first show (until July 20) of Notfamousyet, a new art consultancy and gallery in Oxford curated by Gabriele Dangel. In Diaghilev-style Ms Dangel went to Germany, invited David Ostrowski, who in turn invited some of his friends and she went back to England with a troupe she now looks after…more