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AUTUMN 2016
VOLUME 2
NUMBER 2
BLA CK BOX PROJECTS TANIA SMITH Untitled (domestic gestures) 14 May to 9 June
Emma Varker, ‘Helter Skelter’ 2015, HD video - 1:21mins
The videos that comprise the Untitled (domestic gestures) series show absurd moments of escape. Like the slapstick of Buster Keaton, a woman is trapped in a loop of pleasure and anxiety. The videos are an archive of absurd gestures -- repetitious, futile, joyous, and mischievous. They are intended to be humorous, and have a slapstick quality to them, referencing the humanism of the heroes of the silent era. Everyday objects become absurd props in a dance of entrapment and liberation.
DUMBSH*T VIDEO ART curated by Stefan Popescu 16 April to 12 May This is an exhibition of contemporary experimental screenworks that explore new approaches and styles in an era dominated by online video, convergent media and hypercapitalism. The artists are established screen arts practitioners who are responding specifically to that brief. As the exhibition name suggests, the works are both playful and profound, challenging established notions of low and high screen culture. The works explore datamoshing, vaporwave, darkwave, witch house, glitch aesthetic, performance and new materiality. Artists include Usama Alshaibi, Dario Alva, Katherine Berger, Ryszard Dabek, John Di Stefano, Mr Doodleburger, Scott Fitzpatrick, Adam Geczy, Justin Harvey, Shaun Hay, Harley Ives, Kevin Khachan, Tony Lawrence, and Emma Varker.
Tania Smith, ‘Untitled #1 (pillow)’ 2010, video - 4:32min
16 APRIL to 12 MAY 2016
INTRODUCING IV Michèle Heibel, Bettina Hill, Louise Morgan, Belinda Winkler This is the fourth exhibition in our Introducing series. The show aims to showcase the work of four artists who are new to the Gallery.
Top: Belinda Winkler, ‘Lilt’ 2015, stoneware clay, oxides, steel - 12 objects: 25 x 200 x 25cm Right: Michèle Heibel, ‘0100’ 2015, etching needle on black clayboard, 15 x 7cm Left: Louise Morgan, ‘Intimate ecologies I’ (detail) 2016, watercolour, laser cut paper, 30.5 x 30.5cm Cover: Bettina Hill, ‘The Shape of Paper, Lines and Arcs’ (detail) 2011, paper, timber, rubber, screws, bolts, 270 x 80 x 35cm, Private Collection
14 MAY to 9 JUNE 2016 AL MUNRO, Pleated Logic “The paintings in the exhibition, Pleated Logic, continue my interest in exploring the way textile forms, such as pattern and structure, allow us to reconsider the spaces of abstract painting. Pleated and folded fabrics create spatial forms that are flexible and elastic; mathematically, pleating and folding allows a transformation from two dimensions to complex hyperbolic spatial forms. This exhibition draws on ideas developed on recent residencies in northern Thailand, and my interest in the heavily pleated Hmong textiles found in the region.” - Al Munro Al Munro, ‘Folded Logic I’ 2015, acrylic on wood, 40 x 40cm
BENJAMIN STORCH Resonance Inspired by imagery of dynamical systems in nature and science, my work has been revolving around fluid, orbital loops for a good number of years. Physically, the tactile sensation of shaping the twisting curvatures is part of my attachment to the process and the resulting forms. Conceptually and spiritually, I had a sense that on some level our actions and reactions are not that different from a trajectory circling around attractive and repulsive forces; a fluid, sensitive, nonconfrontational response to the world and our internal contradictions. The exhibition will feature some new works in alabaster alongside works in copper and stainless steel. Benjamin Storch, ‘Lobes’ 2013, stainless steel 200 x 200 x 130cm, Private Collection
11 JUNE to 7 JULY 2016
OP ART a curated group exhibition This exhibition will cause flat lines to seemingly buckle, stationary colours to bleed and intersect, concavity to be created within even surfaces, afterimages to appear and motion to arise from stillness. Patterns will vibrate, concentric circles will quiver and depth will be deceptive.
Op Art has appeared throughout many art historical movements, including Cubism, Constructivism and Dadaism. It is a genre that explores the varying illusionary optical effects that can be influenced by manipulating geometrical shapes and repeating colours. Perception differs from reality, revealing flaws within the human retina’s ability to always see things as they are. Contemporary artists continue to be fascinated by this genre, incorporating scientific and mathematical principles, formations found in nature, colourtheory, inspiration from technological advancements, as well as new media equipment, to further explore this area of ocular inquiry. Top: Caroline Durré, ‘Not-garden (red and green)’ 2007, oil on linen, 152 x 152cm Bottom: Al Munro, ‘Hyperbolic Infinite VII’ 2015, acrylic on canvas, 25.5cm diameter
G A LLERY N EWS Todd Fuller and Catherine O’Donnell at Newcastle Art Gallery Group exhibition: Just Draw, 6 February to 1 May 2016
Peter Tilley at Newcastle Art Gallery
Joint exhibition: A Dirty Business: Devine, Styan and Tilley, 20 February to 15 May 2016
Catherine O’Donnell at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery Group exhibition: Wait, Weep & Be Worthy: Women, The Home Front & War, 2 April to 22 May 2016
James Guppy at Orange Regional Gallery
Group exhibition: Best in Show: Dogs in Australian Art, 9 April to 3 July 2016
Peter Tilley at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre Joint exhibition: Black Harvest, 23 April to 5 June 2016
Catherine O’Donnell at Fairfield City Museum and Gallery Solo exhibition: Drawn in Fairfield, 14 May to 13 August 2016
Nicole Welch at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Solo exhibition: Eastern Interiors: explorations from Bathurst to Albury, 1 July to 14 August 2016
Peter Tilley at Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Joint exhibition: Black Harvest, 1 July to 4 September 2016
Catherine O’Donnell at Art Gallery of New South Wales
Group exhibition: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2016, 30 July to 11 December 2016
Todd Fuller and Catherine O’Donnell at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Group exhibition: Just Draw, 19 August to 2 October 2016
Todd Fuller at Grafton Regional Gallery
Solo exhibition: Todd Fuller - Storylines, 31 August to 23 October 2016
James Guppy at Tweed Regional Gallery & Margaret Olley Art Centre Solo exhibition: In Flagrante Delicto, 30 September 2016 to 12 February 2017 B R E N D A M AY
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