Glory! (July 2026)

Glory! 
BEERS London
51 Little Britain
London, EC1A 7BH

Opening Preview: Thurs. 16 July (6-8pm)
Exhibition 17 July – 15 Aug. 2026

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“The garden had come to a standstill.”
Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles

BEERS London is pleased to present a new body of work by Andrew Salgado, entitled Glory! For the first time, Salgado ventures from figurative painting to present a series devoted exclusively to abstracted florals.

At once funereal and joyous, these exuberant compositions occupy a space between celebration and mourning, expression and uncertainty. Bursting with colour and vitality, they embrace contradiction: frustration and release, restraint and abandon, beauty and decay. For the artist, the word “glory” is laden with possibility, at once promising and mildly unsettling; its etymology meaning majestic and light, but also heaviness, social weightiness.

Given the turmoil of recent years, as well as Salgado’s own increasingly literary approach to his art, this body of work is a response and reaction to his own tendency toward narrative. In recent years, his exhibitions have been accompanied by extensive writing and narrative frameworks, but Glory! purposely turns the opposite direction, pursuing a more immediate language rooted in gesture, sensation, and the visceral possibilities of paint itself.

At the heart of this body of work is a search for freedom. During the process of creation, Salgado has found himself moving further away from quote-unquote “flower paintings” to something closer to pure idea: automatic writing or a communion between concept, process, and execution. These are not flowers in any conventional sense, but dreamlike expressions hovering somewhere between representational recognition and pure abstraction. The flower is less a subject matter than a catalyst, allowing the artist access to a sense of abstraction that he has increasingly hinted at for years.

Though florals themselves arrive laden with centuries of symbolism, evoking beauty, mortality, devotion, abundance, and transience. Salgado embraces this history while resisting singular interpretation.

Ultimately, these paintings are less about “flowers” than they are about possibility.
Rather than marking a departure, they suggest Salgado’s evolution as an artist, revealing another facet of a practice devoted to exploration, one driven by intuition, confidence, and a willingness to explore every dimension of his own creative identity. If there is a defining gesture here, it is not one of abandonment, but of curiosity: the confidence to embrace change while continuing to pursue the questions that have always underscored the work.