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February 02, 2008 | | The Visitors: The Australian Response to UFOs and Aliens |
Currently showing at Penrith Regional Gallery and the Lewers Bequest, Emu Plains is an exploration of the supernatural in "The Visitors: The Australian Response to UFOs and Aliens". Showcasing the work of 15 different artists, the display incorporates various mediums including painting, installation, sculpture and light work. Catering to UFO enthusiasts, the exhibition additionally features an "evidence room" complete with detailed case files of those who claim to have come face to face with extraterrestrial beings. The catalogue essay was written by Bill Chalker, a prominent UFO researcher who has written numerous publications on the topic, including his most recent "Hair of the Alien: DNA and other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions".
Indigenous Australian, Tony Albert is one of the artists included within the exhibition. Several of his featured works deal with the alien as a symbol for the displacement often felt by the Indigenous community. Luke Roberts dressed as his sci-fi alter ego Pope Alice Xorporation also features within the exhibition. Roberts created Pope Alice a few years ago as a rebellious response to what he views as the "orthodoxy of Australian modernism." Other artists which feature within the exhibition include Claire Conroy, Simon Champ, Adam Norton and collaborative duo Soda Jerk.
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January 26, 2008 | | Donald Urquhart |
Multi-talented artist Donald Urquhart is currently showing stylized paintings, drawings and mixed media at Jack Hanley Gallery in LA. Urquhart devised the exhibition, titled The End, to be a farewell to the past and the included work feels like a montage of 20th Century iconography. Urquhart, who fell in with the infamous performer Leigh Bowery in the 1980s, became an intricate part of London's campy nightclub scene, collaborating with Bowery and even co-running a club called The Beautiful Bend. As Urquhart suggests in his writing on Bowery, the flashiness of the nightclub life influenced his stylized aesthetic. Urquhart's work was included in the Saatchi Gallery's Unreal: Altered Perspectives in Painting and in Beck's Futures at the ICA in London. His recent solo show at Maureen Paley Gallery in New York included multiple renderings of girls and his 2006 exhibition at Herald Street Gallery in New York also featured girl-centric imagery, broaching everything from school girl play to pin-up girl glamor. The End at Jack Hanley Gallery will remain on view through February 12th.
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January 02, 2008 | | Scott Redford |
Currently showing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney is Scott Redford's Blood Disco, an exploration of Australian surfing traditions. Redford resides in Queensland where he was born and raised. Located at the north-eastern corner of Australia, it is often nicknamed the "Sunshine State" for its humidity and beach culture. The exhibition includes canvases created from foam, fibreglass and resin that are constructed in a highly similar way to surfboards. Redford drew the designs that appear on the works, before commissioning specialised surfboard manufacturers to create the unique canvases. Redford has widely exhibited his work both nationally and abroad and venues including Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra.
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January 01, 2008 | | Tim Hawkinson |
Tim Hawkinson's first Australian exhibition "Mapping the Marvellous," is currently on show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. In addition to photo collages and drawings, The Los Angeles based artist is best known for creating theatrical sculptural and installation works through the use of mundane materials. Works on display include a bat constructed from plastic bags and an iris made of green biros. Hawkinson initially graduated from San Jose State University before later earning his MFA at the University of California. Exhibitions in which he has previously displayed his work include the 1999 Venice Biennale, "Zoopsia" - a solo exhibition at the Getty in Los Angeles and "How Man is Knit" at the Pace Wildenstein, New York earlier this year.
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December 12, 2007 | | Don't Call It Street Art |
Curated by Thibault Sandret of Glam Trash Pop and hosted by Virginie Sommet's Studio/Gallery 173 on Canel Street is the exhibition "Don't Call It Street Art," which will be on open to the public beginning this weekend on Dec 15th. The group show celebrates Street Art through photography, painting, collage, graphic design and live body painting. By taking the art out of its urban context and hanging in a gallery the work becomes legalized as well as institutionalized. Sandret hopes that by placing the work in the space of the gallery, people will allow themselves to slow down and take a look in a way that may otherwise not happen when quickly passed on the streets. Artists included in the show include Ogi, COL & Veng, Nathalie Hamelin, Iris Arnaud, Gary St Clare, Hugo Martin, Jake Dobkin and Alexandra Zsigmond.
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November 24, 2007 | | Wangechi Mutu |
Opening today at Victoria Miro in London, in her first solo exhibition in the UK, Wangechi Mutu will be making a departure from her earlier collages and installations with their highly critical, dark and confrontational themes and stepping into a renewed optimism and positive energy inherent in this new body of work. The exhibition's title Yo.n.I is derived from yoni, the Sanskrit word for "divine passage" or sacred space rooted in the worship of female creativity and sexual organ. With layers of visual metaphor, Mutu likes to force her viewers to question assumptions about race, gender, geography, history and beauty. Mutu received her BFA from Cooper Union, New York and her MFA from Yale University School of Art. The artist was born in Nairobi, Kenya and currently lives and works in New York City.
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September 25, 2007 | | Lucy Williams |
British artist Lucy Williams redefines the idea of collages. Her detailed, low-relief work focuses on mid-20th century Modernist architecture and involves the careful layering of materials such as card, Perspex, fabric, thread and pillow stuffing. Each material is layered precisely by the artist to illustrate railings, lamp cords and other structural elements. In an interview with Wallpaper magazine Williams says she sees her vacant images as spaces to be inhabited. "The era was about belief, ideas that we now no longer hold, of social cohesion through the design of a building, Utopian dreams long dissipated," Williams says in her interview. She's currently showing her first solo exhibition in London "Beneath a Woolen Sky," at the Timothy Taylor Gallery. Williams has had solo exhibits at the McKee Gallery in New York in 2004 and 2006. She has her B.A. in fine art from the Glasgow School of Art and her postgraduate diploma in Fine Art and Painting from the Royal Academy School.
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