This is Shahnoza in 3 Parts

Monday, 13 October 2008 - Saturday, 15 November 2008

Alan Cristea, 31 Cork Street, Piccadilly, W1S 3NU

How Much: Free!

If you're one of those people who's just never really 'got' the whole Julian Opie thing then we sympathise. OK, so that Blur 'Best Of' cover was pretty cool, but a whole career of making people look like stick-men - surely anybody could do it? Well yes, sort of.

But the general consensus is that he's a pretty big deal - a kind of transitional figure between Patrick Caulfield and the YBAs - and there's an exhibition of new work at Alan Cristea this month, which people are getting fairly excited about.

There's nine life-size works depicting pole-dancer Shahnoza (who has featured in Opie's work several times previously). The works are a combination of black silk-screen prints and flocking on white acrylic panels and continue the artist's stripped-down (ho ho) aesthetic.

These works kind of look a bit like those exercise instruction manuals that show you how to do sit-ups without hurting your back, but for strippers and not people with belly fat to lose. Erotic? No. Challenging? Not really. But there's something intriguing about the anonymity of Opie's identikit female.

Until 15.11.08.