The title, On and Off – Off and On, derives from the fact that this exhibition plays with the conventions of the gallery space as flat, vertical surfaces for the presentation of two-dimensional work, or as an empty cube of spatial containment for three-dimensional work. The diverse collection of artworks in this show certainly clings to the walls of the gallery, but it also dramatically erupts like new forms of life from the walls to inhabit physical space. In the process it permits the inspirational forms of the natural world lurking behind them to assertively assume their original three-dimensional characteristics. This organic, living transformation continues with work that literally cascades off the wall onto other gallery surfaces to suggest the many ways in which the physical world grows of its own volition into whatever it ultimately becomes.
