JUNE 2013
JOANNA LAMB: 15 COLOUR SERIES
18 JUNE - 13 JULY 2013
Joanna Lamb's exhibition 15 Colour Series investigates the domestic interior and exterior. This body of work sees Lamb produce a series of paintings and objects with different compositions using the same fifteen colours, chosen through an intuitive process which considered hue, contrast and tonal value to most effectively suggest multiple spatial scenarios. In this exhibition Lamb has extended her painting practice to include collages, neon wall pieces as well as a 3 metre high wall painting whereby exteriors and interiors have been reduced and abstracted to their most readable elemental forms.
Influenced by advertising and graphic design imagery as well as print and electronic media processes, the compositions, especially the spaces within the interiors and the forms of the exteriors contain elements drawn from the artists own experiences of these spaces and dwellings, as well as those represented in magazines and on the internet. Through a practice of painting and printmaking Lamb's hard-edged and highly refined geometric compositions omit a feeling of disconnectedness, impartial to the inclusion of human interaction whereby the surface of the work, seemingly untouched by the artist`s hand, and the painting, empty of inhabitants, is clinical, clean and un-cluttered.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
KAREN BLACK: PIECE OF WOOD
20 JULY - 10 AUGUST 2013
Karen Black's work explores loaded social and individual narratives that blend the historical with the mythical, traversing the complex interchange between the personal and the political. Dealing predominantly with themes of devastation, Black's imagery deftly employs a highly referential symbolism through its cast of characters and scenes, recognisable from well-known tragedies and emblematic tales of separation, isolation, loss and violence. An evident tension is present between these depictive elements of her works, while the images themselves are captured somewhere between figuration and abstraction.
Black's work can be found in various public collections including Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne and the Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane as well as Artbank, the Macquarie Bank Collection and the Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, in addition to various private collections within Australia and overseas.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
GREGORY HODGE: SLIDE
20 JULY - 10 AUGUST 2013
Gregory Hodge's new body of work continues an exploration into the space and tension between representation and abstraction, illusion and sensation. These paintings extend on an ongoing development of a visual abstract language that incorporates bold techno-coloured gestural motifs, layered atmospheric space and optical Trompe-l`oeil effects. These new large scale paintings resonate with pictorial strategies of illusionistic and realist paintings of the Western tradition while also calling to mind Pop art and Colour Field painting of the 1960’s.
Gregory Hodge, born in Sydney in 1982, currently lives and works in Canberra. He is a PhD Candidate at the Australian National University School of Art. His work blurs the boundaries between two and three dimensionality, playfully exploring the space between image and reality, representation and abstraction.
GO SEE
EX DE MEDICI
COLD BLOODED, A RETROSPECTIVE
DRILL HALL GALLERY
AUSTRALIA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
28 JUNE - 11 AUGUST 2013
SAM JINKS
PERSONAL STRUCTURES: TIME, SPACE, EXISTENCE
55th LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, ITALY, 2013
PALAZZO BEMBO, VENICE, ITALY
(70 M. FROM RIALTO BRIDGE ON CANAL GRANDE)
1 JUNE - 24 NOVEMBER 2013
LAITH MCGREGOR
THE RED QUEEN
MONA
18 JUNE - 21 APRIL 2014
ALEX SETON
THE GRAVITY OF SCULPTURE
DORSKY GALLERY, LONG ISLAND, NY, USA
UNTIL 1 JULY 2013
IMAGE COURTESY SILVERSALT PHOTOGRAPHY
JUDY MILLAR
BE DO BE DO BE DO
INSTITUTE OF MODERN ART, BRISBANE
8 JUNE - 27 JULY 2013
TONY ALBERT
I STILL CALL AUSTRALIA HOME; CONTEMPORARY
ART FROM BLACK AUSTRALIA
GALLERY OF MODERN ART (GOMA) BRISBANE
UNTIL 7 OCTOBER 2013
TONY ALBERT
A PROJECTED FUTURE
THE ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
LEVEL 2 PROJECT SPACE
30 MAY - 30 JUNE 2013
ARIE HELLENDOORN
PSEUDO-ANATOMICAL
WAIKATO MUSEUM OF ART, NEW ZEALAND
26 MARCH - 30 JUNE 2013
ALASDAIR MACINTYRE
STORY
LEWERS LEARNING CENTRE
PENRITH REGIONAL GALLERY & THE LEWERS BEQUEST
25 MAY - 19 SEPTEMBER 2013
DARREN SYLVESTER
MAKE UP: PAINTED FACES IN CONTEMPORARY
PHOTOGRAPHY
MONASH GALLERY OF ART
3 MAY - 30 JUNE 2013
DARREN SYLVESTER
SURFACE NOISE @ BUS PROJECTS
12 - 29 JUNE 2013
25 - 31 ROKEBY STREET, COLLINGWOOD
CONGRATULATIONS
TO MICHAEL LINDEMAN AND GREGORY HODGE WHO ARE BOTH FINALISTS IN THE ART ON PAPER: HAZELHURST ART PRIZE 2013 AT HAZELHURST REGIONAL GALLERY, SYDNEY
MATTHEW ALLEN IS A FINALIST IN THE KOGARAH ART PRIZE, SYDNEY
WATCH
WATCH TONY ALBERT ON COLOUR THEORY WITH RICHARD BELL EPISODE 8 - 8PM SUNDAY 16 JUNE 2013 ON NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TELEVISION (CHANNEL 34)
READ
JOHN MACDONALD`S SMH REVIEW OF ART BASEL HONG KONG AND PENNY BYRNE`S iPROTEST
PENNY BYRNE & JUDY MILLAR IN ISSUE 64 ART COLLECTOR
MAY 2013
SAM JINKS PERSONAL STRUCTURES: TIME, SPACE, EXISTENCE
55th LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, ITALY, 2013
1 JUNE - 24 NOVEMBER 2013
PREVIEW PARTY
28, 29, 30, 31 MAY
FROM 18.00 UNTIL 22.00
PALAZZO BEMBO, VENICE, ITALY
(70 M. FROM RIALTO BRIDGE ON CANAL GRANDE)
ARTIST TALK
FRIDAY, MAY 31, 3.30PM (ALL WELCOME)
Sullivan + Strumpf is excited to announce Sam Jinks' inclusion in Personal Structures: Time, Space, Existence, a collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale, opening next week.
Held at the Palazzo Bembo, 70 metres from the Rialto Bridge, between 1 June - 24 November 2013 and curated by the Global Art Affairs Foundation, this exhibition will bring together an extraordinary combination of established and emerging artists all drawn together with a common dedication to the concepts of Time, Space and Existence.
Sam Jinks' sculptural work sustains the briefest and often most private moments in time, inviting the viewer to become the voyeur. Emotional vulnerability is both the subject and result of his work, allowing the audience a rare opportunity to examine in close proximity the ordinary, imperfect and unidealised body of another. For Jinks, his works are not literal representations where realism is the sought outcome, but instead use hyper-realism as a mechanism to create an intimacy with the viewer that is impossible outside of private relationships and clinical environments.
Jinks uses themes of old and new to suggest unrealized potential: the figures are frozen in time, simultaneously at the beginning and end of life. This can be interpreted either as a melancholy reflection of loss, or as the experience of generations standing together with the awareness of life cycles and different stages of development. His hyper-real sculptures have been described as `poignantly beautiful` as his works create a dialogue on both a technical and emotional level through a strong sensitivity to detail. Created from silicone, fiberglass, resin, calcium carbonate and human hair these works contain a profound sense of vulnerability and are remarkable in their striking portrayal of the human condition.
Jinks' work can be found in various public collections that include: the Kiran Nader Museum of Art, Delhi, India and the Museo Escultura Figurativa Internacional Contemporaenea (MEFIC), Portugal. In Australia his work is included in the Royal Melbourne Institute of Techonology Collection, Victoria, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Victoria and Shepparton Art Gallery, Victoria, in addition to various private collections within Australia and internationally.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Thank you to those who have already supported including AbaF, Dr Terry Wu and other wonderful anonymous donors.
Sam Jinks is represented nationally by Sullivan+Strumpf.
EXHIBITION OPEN TO THE PUBLIC FROM 1 JUNE UNTIL 24 NOVEMBER 2013
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PENNY BYRNE: iPROTEST
ART BASEL | HONG KONG| STAND IC 16
23 -26 MAY 2013
PRIVATE VIEW: Wednesday, May 22 (by invitation only)
VERNISSAGE: Wednesday, May 22, 5pm to 9pm (by invitation only)
ARTIST TALK: Thursday 23 May, 2.30pm (All Welcome)
PUBLIC DAYS
Thursday, May 23, 12pm to 7pm
Friday, May 24, 12pm to 7pm
Saturday, May 25, 12pm to 7pm
Sunday, May 26, 12pm to 5pm
Sullivan + Strumpf is excited to announce Penny Byrne's inclusion in Art Basel Hong Kong between 23 - 26 May 2013. With her biggest and most ambitious site-specific installation,iPROTEST as well as two new large bronze works being exhibited, Penny Byrne will be joining us throughout Art Basel Hong Kong to discuss her work. Please pop by if you are coming to the fair.
iPROTEST consists of over 300 of Byrne's individually painted and meticulously reconfigured vintage porcelain figurines that will cover, in its entirety, the three exhibiting walls of the stand, as well as two mid level plinths. With the title alluding to the pivotal role social media has played in the organization of recent political protests, in particular to the common use of “i” as a prefix to denote a personal technological device, this work wields a fiercely political message confronting issues that present an ongoing inquiry into popular culture and international politics.
Byrne's inspiration for the work comes from events in December 2010, when the young Tunisian fruit seller Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, (this act sparked the beginning of the Arab Spring). Since then, mass protests have resulted in the downfall of dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya and led to continuing unrest in Syria. Add to this the Occupy Wall Street movement, the anti austerity riots in Greece, the London riots, the anti-Putin protests in Russia, anti corruption in Mexico, and a multitude of similar protests world wide, it is clear that people power is tapping into a global sense of restless promise.
The figurines in the installation represent souvenirs from the many protest sites, acknowledging the very long tradition in porcelain production of making souvenirs for people to take home and put on their mantelpiece to remind them of a place they have visited, or in this case, of a protest or riot they have been part of.
This work reflects this worldwide phenomenon that continues into 2013. In countries where the media is tightly controlled and often censored, young technology savvy people have turned to new media as a means of mass communication. They have been able to organize their protests well beyond the control of their ageing less tech savvy leaders.
Penny Byrne, born 1965, completed a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at La Trobe University, Melbourne in 1997, a Bachelor of Art (Fine Art Ceramics) at RMIT University in Melbourne, 1987 and a Graduate Diploma (Ceramics and Glass Conservation and Restoration) at West Dean College in the United Kingdom, 1990.
Byrne has exhibited internationally and extensively in Australia. Recent Solo exhibitions include Penny Byrne: Commentariat, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne (2011) and Penny Byrne, Mantelpiece, Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2006). Byrne's work was featured in the group shows Clash: Contemporary Sculptural Ceramics, Newcastle Region Gallery, Newcastle (2011), Thing: Beware of the Material World, Art Gallery of Western Australia (2009) and Horror – Come Darkness, Macquarie University Art Gallery (2009). In 2010 Byrne was the subject of the documentary for the ABC TV program Artscape. Byrne's is currently exhibited in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, from 2011-2012.
JUDY MILLAR
I GIVE YOU THE END OF A GOLDEN THREAD
7 MAY - 8 JUNE 2013
Judy Millar`s exciting upcoming exhibition I Give You The End of A Golden Thread will be her second solo presentation both in Australia and at Sullivan+Strumpf. In this exhibition Millar succeeds in creating an experience of painting through which both hers and the viewer`s world is directly addressed via a perpetual motion of ideas which inform the work, as Millar states painting “is a way to think in a fluid medium”. In both this body of work and in Millar`s upcoming solo exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane in June, she has moved away from the academic and conceptual to create a highly personal exhibition. As Millar states “I seem to have been surrounded by death - in response I wanted to come up with something l ife affirming, death denying and splendid”.
Millar`s colour paintings conceal traces of her working process, creating a visual tension between reality and illusion where the hard-edged and the gestural go hand in hand and the physicality of the artist is presented through definitive markings. These are images which began with paintings but in many respects are intriguing for their similarity to photography`s conceptual visual framework rather than abstract expressionisms` perceived fluid thought process.
SAM LEACH
DYMAXION
7 MAY - 8 JUNE 2013
Sam Leach`s upcoming exhibition at Sullivan + Strumpf will be his first presentation of new works in Australia since 2010. In these new and dynamic works colour and scale are further utilised, extending his investigations into Humanist and Futurist theorists such as Buckminster Fuller and Jacob von Uexkal. Through Leach`s long-term interest in examining how science and technology produce and shape human perceptions of environments he combines the modernist iconography of the target, utilized significantly by Jasper Johns, to create a body of work that is simultaneously representational and abstract in form - much like the target.
As Simon Gregg, Curator of the Gippsland Art Gallery, states "Leach`s paintings exude more than a faint aroma of scientific enquiry. Whether his primates, birds and other creatures are merely participating or actually conducting these enquiries is not clear, however there appears to be some form of logic at work whose parameters we can only speculate." In his work Leach assesses how reality has been perceived and produced historically, contesting ontological hierarchies. By questioning the culture of science and the modern dualist philosophy of man vs. nature in particular, Leach invokes a discourse about how new scientific knowledge constantly changes the relationship between humans and non-human animals.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
PENNY BYRNE iPROTEST
ART BASEL HONG KONG
23 - 26 MAY 2013
Sullivan + Strumpf is excited to announce Penny Byrne`s inclusion in Art Basel Hong Kong`s INSIGHTS sector in May 2013 with her site-specific installation iPROTEST.
iPROTEST will consist of over 300 of Byrne`s individually painted and meticulously reconfigured vintage porcelain figurines that will cover, in its entirety, the three exhibiting walls of the stand, as well as two mid level plinths. With the title alluding to the pivotal role that social media has played in the organization of recent political protests, in particular to the now common use of "i" as a prefix to denote a personal technological device, this work weilds a fiercly political message confronting issues that present an ongoing inquiry into popular culture and international politics.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
15 COLOUR SERIES
18 JUNE - 13 JULY 2013
Joanna Lamb`s upcoming exhibition 15 Colour Series investigates the domestic interior and exterior. This body of work sees Lamb produce a series of paintings and objects with different compositions using the same fifteen colours, chosen through an intuitive process which considered hue, contrast and tonal value to most effectively suggest multiple spatial scenarios. In this exhibition Lamb has extended her painting practice to include collages, neon wall pieces as well as a 3 metre high wall painting whereby exteriors and interiors have been reduced and abstracted to their most readable elemental forms.
Influenced by advertising and graphic design imagery as well as print and electronic media processes, the compositions, especially the spaces within the interiors and the forms of the exteriors contain elements drawn from the artists own experiences of these spaces and dwellings, as well as those represented in magazines and on the internet. Through a practice of painting and printmaking Lamb`s hard-edged and highly refined geometric compositions omit a feeling of disconnectedness, impartial to the inclusion of human interaction whereby the surface of the work, seemingly untouched by the artist`s hand, and the painting, empty of inhabitants, is clinical, clean and un-cluttered.
CONGRATULATIONS
TONY ALBERT`S INCLUSION IN THE MCA EXHIBITION STRING THEORY CURATED BY GLENN BARKLEY BETWEEN 16 AUGUST - 27 OCTOBER 2013.
TONY ALBERT`S COMMISSION AS THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL`S OFFICIAL ARTIST ATTACHED TO THE NORTH WEST MOBILE FORCE (NORFORCE)
KATE SHAW ON HER BROOKLYN, NEW YOR K RESIDENCY AT POINT B WORKLODGE IN MAY 2013.
DARREN SYLVESTER IS A FINALIST IN THE GUIRGUIS NEW ART PRIZE 2013 AT BALLARAT REGIONAL GALLERY BETWEEN 13 APRIL - 19 MAY 2013.
GO SEE
TONY ALBERT A PROJECTED FUTURE
THE ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
LEVEL 2 PROJECT SPACE
30 MAY - 30 JUNE 2013
JUDY MILLAR
BE DO BE DO BE DO
INSTUTUTE OF MODERN ART, BRISBANE
8 JUNE - 27 JULY 2013
EX DE MEDICI
COLD BLOODED
DRILL HALL GALLERY
AUSTRALIA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
28 JUNE - 11 AUGUST 2013
EX DE MEDICI
FLIPSIDE: THE UNDERBELLY OF CANBERRA
ANCA GALLERY + STUDIOS
24 APRIL - 5 MAY 2013
ARIE HELLENDOORN
PSEUDO-ANATOMICAL
WAIKATO MUSEUM OF ART, NEW ZEALAND
26 MARCH - 30 JUNE 2013
ALASDAIR MACINTYRE
STORY
LEWERS LEARNING CENTRE
PENRITH REGIONAL GALLERY & THE LEWERS BEQUEST
25 MAY - 19 SEPTEMBER 2013
DARREN SYLVESTER
MAKE UP: PAINTED FACES IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
MONASH GALLERY OF ART
3 MAY - 30 JUNE 2013
LEAH EMERY
SPECIAL MOVES
MOP PROJECTS
18 APRIL - 5 MAY 2013
ALEX SETON & TEXTAQUEEN
DRAWING A LINE
CABOOLTURE REGIONAL GALLERY
27 APRIL - 15 JUNE 2013
WATCH
WATCH TONY ALBERT ON COLOUR THEORY WITH RICHARD BELL
EPISODE 8 - 8PM SUNDAY 16 JUNE 2013 ON NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TELEVISION (CHANNEL 34)
WATCH
CLICK HERE TO SEE MICHAEL LINDEMAN DISCUSS THE 2013 ARCHIBALD PRIZE AT THE ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
MARCH 2013
SPEAK TO ME
19 MARCH - 27 APRIL 2013
Sullivan + Strumpf is pleased to present Speak to Me an exhibition of text-based work by international and Australian artists. Including senior conceptual artists such as Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Ed Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner alongside contemporary Australian artists Tony Albert, Alex Seton, Michael Lindeman and Laith McGregor,
Speak to Me takes an expansive look at text-based art practices which explore both the literary and graphic potential of language, addressing issues relating to the media, consumerism and cultural identity.
Language in art has a long and ancient history but its more recent origins are the early Cubist works of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Both artists incorporated text from newspapers and labels in their compositions, drawing attention to both the surface of their work and thus away from illusion, which had dominated previous centuries of art making. It is late 20th-century conceptual art, however, that has arguably had the greatest impact on the use of text in contemporary art. For American conceptual artists like those in Speak to Me words not only began to appear in their art, they became art.
Speak to Me is a history in microcosm of international text-based art. The exhibition spans both generations and regions: from American conceptual-art pioneers through to the vital work being made by a younger generation of non-western artists. Collectively, the works in Speak to Me reveal the many, varied and complex ways that words in art can be `read`.
Artists Include:
Tony Albert & Natalya Hughes
Gonkar Gyatso
Jenny Holzer
Barbara Kruger
Michael Lindeman
Laith McGregor
Shirin Neshat
Michael Parekowhai
Ed Ruscha & Raymond Pettibon
Alex Seton
Tavares Strachan
Lawrence Weiner
Shane Cotton & Martin Phillipps of The Chills
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
SAM LEACH
7 MAY - 8 JUNE 2013
Sullivan + Strumpf is excited to present Sam Leach's first exhibition of new works in Australia since 2010. In these new and dynamic works colour and scale are further utilized, extending Leach's investigations into Humanist and Futurist theorists such as Buckminster Fuller and Jacob von Uexkal.
Through Leach's long term interest in examining how science and technology produce and shape human perceptions of environments he combines the modernist iconography of the target - utilized significantly by Jasper Johns - to create a body of work that is simultaneously representational and abstract in form - much like the target.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
JUDY MILLAR
7 MAY - 8 JUNE 2013
Judy Millar's exciting upcoming exhibition will be her second solo presentation both in Australia and at Sullivan + Strumpf. In this exhibition Millar continues to explore the possibilities of gestural abstraction by using direct painting, screen-printing and digital reproduction on canvas, overlaying the techniques of painting and printing to create visceral canvases which enact a sense of the body.
In both Millar's upcoming solo exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane in June and this solo presentation at Sullivan + Strumpf, she has moved away from the academic and conceptual to create a highly personal exhibition. As Millar states “I seem to have been surrounded by death - in response I wanted to come up with something life affirming, death denying and splendid”.
GO SEE
DARREN SYLVESTER
WE USED TO TALK ABOUT LOVE
BALNAVES CONTEMPOARY: PHOTOMEDIA
ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
31 JANUARY - 21 APRIL 2013
DARREN SYLVESTER
INSTALLATION AT ALICE EUPHEMIA
PART OF L`OREAL MELBOURNE FASHION FESTIVAL
37 SWANSTON STREET, MELBOURNE, VIC
18 - 24 MARCH 2013
ALASDAIR MACINTYRE
ONCE MORE INTO THE FRAY
BRISBANE NORTH INSTITUTE OF TAFE
MARCH 14 - APRIL 6 2013
ARIE HELLENDOORN
PSEUDO ANATOMICAL
WAIKATO MUSEUM, HAMILTON, NZ
28 MARCH - 30 JUNE 2013
PENNY BYRNE
SPEAKING AT AGNSW AS PART OF
CROSS-STICHED
TIGHTENING THE THREAD BETWEEN ART & CRAFT
WEDNESDAY 3 APRIL 2013, 6-7PM
JUDY MILLAR
PARTNER DANCE: GIFTS FROM THE PATRONS
AUCKLAND ART GALLERY, NZ
1 DECEMBER 2012 - 7 APRIL 2013
KATE SHAW
TO DENY OUR NOTHINGNESS
GALLERY BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
8 - 24 MARCH 2013
TONY ALBERT
THE COLLECTORS SHOW
SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM, SINGAPORE
TONY ALBERT
THE FUTURES NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE
NEWLYN ART GALLERY, CARDIFF, UK
9 FEBRUARY - 13 APRIL 2013
FEBRUARY 2013
KATE SHAW: NIGHTINGALE
16 FEBRUARY - 9 MARCH 2013
“These works are about the surface and the void... (they) map an irrational geography. Shaw`s is a topology of time, and one whose perspective simultaneously pushes and pulls the viewer.” Isobel Phillip, The Art Life
Kate Shaw's paintings are an interpretation of and meditation on the natural environment which take on the idea of a composite landscape. In her upcoming exhibition each of the landscapes depict a site where nuclear testing has occurred. The materiality of Shaw's painting mimics the physical forms and patterns that occur in the natural world, effectively collapsing time and space like strata layers of rock. These incongruous shapes of flecks and drips of paint crowd the image, yet it remains strangely empty.
Shaw`s alternative reading of the land becomes a bizarre projection of a post-apocalyptic future-scape as the works imagine a nuclear `flash` moment. Using the natural process as a loom, her technique somewhat mirrors nature`s organic movement, creating a strange magnetic tempo streaming into a central gravitational vortex.
As Shaw states about her `paint pours` she is “fascinated by the way the movement of the paint mimics something from the natural world, such as lava flow, a landslide, an avalanche. Some mediums also react with each other and look like amoeba in a Petri dish or a fern frond unfurling, or a tree branch. From these observations of molecules at play I consider how they may relate to a natural form” - indeed the combination is both confronting and unnerving.
TEXTAQUEEN: UNKNOWN ARTIST
16 FEBRUARY - 9 MARCH 2013
“TextaQueen adopts the tradition of the classical salon nude and “recon-texta-ualises” it with drawings done with the humble texta.” Claudia Rowe, ABC TV Sunday Arts
TextaQueen's nude portraits, predominately of women, are executed in the humble and unforgiving `texta` and felt-tip pen on paper. In this new body of work Texta turns the mirror, concentrating exclusively on a series of self-portraits - allowing an exploration of the personal evolution of identity, incorporating graphic elements into largely fictional metaphorical inner narratives.
TextaQueen was showcased at Optimism at the Queensland Art Gallery’s Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane in 2008-9. Texta was a finalist in National Works on Paper 2008 at the Mornington Peninsular Regional Gallery and in the 2002 Dobell Drawing Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Texta was one of ten young artists in Primavera 2002 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
In 2005 Texta undertook an Australia Council residency in New York, and has also completed residencies at Monash University, Penrith Regional Gallery and with the Queensland Art Gallery. Also, Texta has exhibited internationally in Amsterdam and Belgium and in the United States in Los Angeles, CA, Portland, OR and Chicago, IL and on the Sister Spit road tour across North America. Texta has brought `Textanudes` to life in animation for the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, SBS TV Australia and the Australian Centre for Moving Image.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
DARREN SYLVESTER AT VOLTA NY
7 - 10 MARCH 2013
Sullivan + Strumpf are excited to present a solo exhibition of Darren Sylvester's work at VOLTA NY in Soho, NY, an invitational solo project art fair between 7 - 10 March 2013.
Sylvester's multidisciplinary practice involves photography, video, sculpture, music production and performance - in 2011 he published his first book of photographs Compass Point.
SPEAK TO ME
19 MARCH - 27 APRIL 2013
OPENING DRINKS
SATURDAY 23 MARCH, 3 - 5 PM
Sullivan + Strumpf is pleased to present Speak to Me, an exhibition that takes an expansive look at text-based art practices which explore both the literary and graphic potential of language.
Artists include:
Tony Albert
Gonkar Gyatso
Jenny Holzer
Barbara Kruger
Sam Leach
Michael Lindeman
Laith McGregor
Shirin Neshat
Michael Parekowhai
Ed Ruscha
Alex Seton
Tavares Strachan
Lawrence Weiner
GO SEE
DARREN SYLVESTER
WE USED TO TALK ABOUT LOVE
BALNAVES CONTEMPOARY: PHOTOMEDIA
ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
31 JANUARY - 21 APRIL 2013
JUDY MILLAR
THE ARMORY SHOW, NEW YORK
7 - 10 MARCH 2013
JUDY MILLAR
PARTNER DANCE: GIFTS FROM THE PATRONS
AUCKLAND ART GALLERY, NZ
1 DECEMBER 2012 - 7 APRIL 2013
PENNY BYNRE
REDUCE REUSE REAPPROPRIATE - PANEL DISCUSSION
NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA
17 FEBRUARY 2013
TONY ALBERT
BE DEADLY MURAL
REDFERN JARJUM COLLEGE, REDFERN STREET, SYDNEY
TONY ALBERT
THE COLLECTORS SHOW
SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM, SINGAPORE
TONY ALBERT
THE FUTURES NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE
NEWLYN ART GALLERY, CARDIFF, UK
9 FEBRUARY - 13 APRIL 2013
DARREN SYLVESTER
PERFORMING LIVE IN MELBOURNES 'WHITE NIGHT FESTIVAL'
NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA
SATURDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2013, 8 - 8.30 PM
KATE SHAW
TO DENY OUR NOTHINGNESS
GALLERY BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
8 - 24 MARCH 2013
KATE SHAW
INSPIRING ARTISTS: RECIPIENTS OF THE PAT CORRIGAN ARTISTS' GRANT
MAITLAND REGIONAL ART GALLERY
UNTIL 17 FEBRUARY 2013
GREGORY HODGE
EVERYTHING AT ONCE
PARADISE HILLS GALLERY, MELBOURNE
15 FEBRUARY - 2 MARCH 2013
JANUARY 2013
NEW ARTISTS
Sullivan+Strumpf welcomes 3 new artists. Karen Black, Arie Hellendoorn and Gregory Hodge.
KAREN BLACK
Exhibiting July
Karen Black lives and works in Brisbane and has recently completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Griffith University.
Black's work explores loaded social and individual narratives that blend the historical with the mythical, traversing the complex interchange between the personal and the political. Dealing predominantly with themes of devastation, Black’s imagery deftly employs a highly referential symbolism through its cast of characters and scenes, recognisable from well-known tragedies and emblematic tales of separation, isolation, loss and violence. An evident tension is present between these depictive elements of her works; the allegorical stories they tell are linked inextricably to their processes of creation, while the images themselves are captured somewhere between figuration and abstraction.
ARIE HELLENDOORN
Exhibiting September
Born 1980 in the Netherlands - immigrated to New Zealand in 1986. Lives in Hamilton, New Zealand. Holds a BFA with honours from Massey University, Wellington (2007).
Arie Hellendoorn's current focus is on the conventions of portraiture and representations of the human form. He is predominantly interested in the process of sampling and constructing portraits from found images located in books, photographs and the Internet. Within these images Hellendoorn creates compositions that incorporate his own painted language, creating a confrontation between the original meaning and often classical poses of the found images and their new context. As a result, the paintings themselves as objects/surfaces become meaningless and it is up to the viewer to imbue the paintings with meaning, which will inevitably change over time with its audience and its context.
GREGORY HODGE
Exhibiting July
Gregory Hodge was born in Sydney in 1982 and currently lives and works in Canberra. He is a PhD Candidate at the Australian National University School of Art.
Hodge constructs compositions from an array of collage source material including painted abstract motifs on drafting film, coloured paper and masking tape before rendering these collages in paint. Using complex and systematic technical processes including trompe-l’oeil, cast shadows and manipulating paints translucent and opaque qualities, the paintings playfully mimic the physical fragility and provisional nature of the source material.