Image: Lyndsey Ingram, London
Lyndsey Ingram will present ‘Painted Postcards’, an exhibition of new work by Alexander Gorlizki, at its 20 Bourdon Street space in London from 10 September to 7 October 2026. The presentation brings together 34 postcards depicting works from the Western art-historical canon, which Gorlizki has transformed through colourful interventions, motifs and patterns in a range of graphic styles.
The exhibition centres on the tension between familiar art-historical images and the artist’s playful alterations. The postcards span centuries of painting and encompass varied subjects and styles, placing canonical compositions alongside Gorlizki’s own iconography and designs. Among the works referenced are Jan van Eyck’s ‘The Arnolfini Portrait’, dated to around 1434, and Jean-Luc Fragonard’s ‘The Swing’, dated to around 1767.
According to the gallery’s announcement, the postcards have been collected over decades from museums around the world. Their original function as reproductions or souvenirs becomes the starting point for a new body of work, in which widely circulated images are materially and visually reconfigured rather than presented as straightforward copies of the originals.
Gorlizki’s interventions are rendered in a Jaipur studio that he established with Master miniature painter Riyaz Uddin and his assistants. The works are made using the techniques and natural pigments associated with a 700-year-old miniature-painting tradition. The studio process gives the series a direct relationship to the materials and methods of Indian miniature painting while the source images draw on a broad Western art-historical archive.
Lyndsey Ingram is presenting the exhibition as a solo project by Gorlizki. The gallery’s announcement describes the works as incorporating vibrant motifs and patterns across different graphic approaches, without specifying a single formal treatment for the full group of postcards. The resulting selection moves between recognisable historical imagery and the artist’s contemporary interventions.
A private view is scheduled for Wednesday 9 September, from 6pm to 8pm. ‘Painted Postcards’ will then be open from 10 September through 7 October at 20 Bourdon Street, London W1K 3PJ.
