Installation view June 22 – July 17, 2010 A new solo exhibition by Australian artist John Nixon.
Christopher Dean: Twelve Rules for a New Academy (gender & sexuality), Factory 49, Sydney, Australia
Artist Christopher Dean June 17-26, 2010 Twelve Rules for a New Academy (gender & sexuality) is the title of Christopher Deans forthcoming exhibition at Factory 49, Sydney. The title directly references Ad Reinhardt’s 1953 manifesto Twelve Rules for a New Academy, a statement that maps out the rights and wrongs of art. Rather than presenting the art going public with a list of objective commandments Deans exhibition speaks from a more intimate and subjective position. [...]
David Thomas: Amid it All – Recent Paintings and Photopaintings, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
David Thomas, Monochromes in Time and Space: Hamburg Hauptbahnof, 2008 Enamel on photograph on Dibond, 52 x 69 cm March 27 – April 28, 2010
Tomislav Nikolic: Cardinal Mutable Fixed, Yuill/Crowley Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Installation view March 6-31, 2010 Anyone familiar with astrology knows the twelve zodiac signs can be grouped according to four elements– fire, earth, air, and water—each of which affects the profile of the signs it governs. There is however a further way of organizing the twelve signs, grouping them into three quadruplicities according to their “quality:” cardinal (enterprising and commanding), mutable (subject to change), or fixed (stable). Tomislav Nikolic has referred to astrology in other [...]
Douglas Witmer: Ring the Bells Anew, Recent Paintings, Blank Space, New York, NY
Douglas Witmer, Things Mean a Lot at the Time, 2010 Acrylic on unprimed canvas, 20 x 24 inches March 4-27, 2010 Blank Space Gallery presents Ring The Bells Anew, an exhibition of recent paintings by Douglas Witmer. This is the artist’s third solo show in New York, and his first with the gallery. Over the past decade, Witmer has gained increasing attention for his uniquely distilled sensibility related to his paintings’ surface and color. His [...]
Sydney Ball: Structures 3 & The New York Stain Paintings c. 1971, Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney, Australia
Sydney Ball, Zianexis, 2009 Acrylic on canvas, 152 x 168 cm March 4-21, 2010 The following extract is taken from ‘Sydney Ball: prophet of abstraction’ by Wendy Walker, Sydney Ball: The Colour Paintings 1963–2007, p21 The emergence at the end of the 1990s of an insistent form in Ball’s paintings – reminiscent of shapes in early drawings of rock formations from his landscape works – gave rise to the asymmetrical, ragged-edged motifs in the abstract [...]
Francesca Mataraga, Factory 49, Sydney, Australia
Francesca Mataraga, Abstrakt Painting, 2009 November 18-28, 2009 Francesca Mataraga presents her new work Abstrakt Painting at Factory 49. Abstrakt Painting consumes the gallery space with colour, combining canvases with objects, fluorescent lights, painted walls and mirror, unifying the space through the use of objects as abstract forms. In this expansive new work Mataraga explores the possibilities of three-dimensional painting in contemporary practice. A Sydney based artist, Mataraga has exhibited work in the Tim Olsen [...]
Reductive, ACGA Gallery @ Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
Sydney Ball, Azriaxis, 2007 Acrylic on canvas, 118.5 x 137.5 cm November 3-29, 2009 Curated by David Hagger Participating Artists: Justin Andrews, Sydney Ball, Cathy Blanchflower, Louise Blyton, Col Jordan, Emma Langridge, David Milne, Giles Ryder, Alex Spremberg, Wilma Tabacco & PJ Hickman Reductive brings together a selection of prominent artists whose practices are concerned as much with the methodology of conception as they are with the production of the resulting work. falling under the [...]
Pam Aitken, Factory 49, Sydney, Australia
King Colours, 2009 (work in progress in studio) October 22-31, 2009 Also on view: Marlene Sarroff & Jacek Przybyszewski
+/-, Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art & Design, Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, Australia
Kerrie Poliness, Black O wall drawing #6, 1997 Fibre-tipped pen mural Monash University Collection Purchased with funds donated by Mrs. Margaret Stewart, 1997 September 7 – October 9, 2009 Curated by Danny Lacy, +/- examines the minimal and the maximal, the reductive and the additive, the positive and negative, exploring the formal visual elements of pattern, repetition and grid across a wide range of mediums. Inspired by Kerrie Poliness’ geometric Black O wall drawings, +/- [...]
Gilbert Hsiao: Shape/Anti-Shape, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
September 12 – October 31, 2009 Gallery Sonja Roesch announces a solo exhibition of recent work by Gilbert Hsiao, featuring perceptually-based abstraction painted on shaped wooden panels. Hsiao has been exploring the mechanics of visual perception since the 1980s. The viewer perceives oscillation through the illusion of a continuous wave produced by the physiological experience of space and movement. Meticulously layered stripes in tightly woven structures create a musical rhythm and repose. “Shape/Anti-Shape” showcases Hsiao’s [...]
Icons of the Desert Catalogue: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
Mick Namararri Tjapaltjarri (Pintupi, ca. 1927–1998) Water Dreaming, late 1972 Synthetic polymer powder paint on composition board 69.53 max. x 56.52 cm September 1 – December 5, 2009 “It is not every day that a new kind of beauty is born,” says Professor Roger Benjamin of the University of Sydney, the exhibition’s guest curator. Such is the achievement of the painters of Papunya, who adapted the rich meaning of their image-making to a new context, [...]
Concrete Now! Introducing PS, Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness-shire, United Kingdom
Installation view with works by Tilman, John Nixon & Julian Dashper (left to right) August 23 – September 27, 2009 HICA, The Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, is to host an exhibition of artists’ work from PS gallery, Amsterdam, opening on Sunday 23rd August, 2009. Concrete Now! Introducing PS will present work from artists who have exhibited with PS, including Julian Dashper, Michelle Grabner, Gerold Miller, John Nixon, Jan van der Ploeg, and Tilman. A [...]
Andrew Gutteridge: A Linear Construction, Conical Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Installation view September 5-26, 2009 A Linear Construction is Andrew Gutteridge’s new optical intervention. The installation expands the field of abstraction through a numerical and linear response to the interior architecture of Conical. The gallery space is divided and mapped out through a series of lines constructed from black elastic cord. These lines dissect the space and create a physical disruption to the Gallery. As the viewer moves through the space they will have to [...]
Trevor Richards: New Works, Turner Galleries, Perth, Australia
This is the first time that Turner Galleries has shown the work of well-known local artist Trevor Richards. Trevor’s practice comprises painting, sculpture, installation, architectural interventions and video. This exhibition presents a new series of paintings and three dimensional works which allude to architecturally modelled space. Trevor is widely recognised for his formally structured, minimalist approach to painting that is informed by his sustained engagement with a limited range of colours and an admiration for the [...]
Open House for Butterflies
July 31 - August 29, 2009
MINUS SPACE is pleased to announce our summer group exhibition Open House for Butterflies featuring work by seven international reductive artists.
Sydney Non Objective Fundraiser & Silent Auction
Jurek Wybraniec, Surrogate (Pillow-like template for despair, Blue + Pink combo 1), 2009 Enamel on vinyl, 40 x 40 x 9 cm SNO 50 Fundraiser – Silent Auction Over 50 Australian & Internationals All bids finalized at 5pm, Sunday, July 26, 2009. All bids enter at $100, with no reserve. Viewing throughout July. Opening reception: Saturday, July 4, 3-6pm Bids can also be placed via an online form at www.sno.org.au or in person at SNO centre at: [...]
Minimal Variety Forms, Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Kevin Finklea A List Of Things We Said We’d Do Tomorrow #18, 2009 Acrylic on Baltic plywood 28cm x 10cm x 12cm June 20 – August 5, 2009 Participating Artists: Christoph Dahlhausen, Kevin Finklea, Daniel Gottin, Rosa M. Hessling, Sherna Teperson, Mark Titmarsh, Heiner Thiel, Bill Thompson, Peter Weber
re: working space, White Street Project, Frankston, Australia
Installation view through storefront window May 29 – June 12, 2009 Participating Artists: Brian Scales, Inverted Topologies (Justin Andrews, Kyle Jenkins, Danny Lacy, Masato Takasaka), Suzie Attiwill, and Warren Taylor
Daniel Argyle: FLAT-PACK / AXE-CUT / EXTERIOR, White Street Project, Frankston, Australia
June 15 – July 15, 2009 Presented by White Street Project, prototypes for temporary outdoor sculptures on display at the AMC Frankston 12 Cinema Complex on Wells Street and the Frankston City Library on Playne Street. > Daniel Argyle’s web site
Escape from New York, Curated by Matthew Deleget, Project Space Spare Room, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
May 8-29, 2009
RMIT University School of Art and Sydney Non Objective present contemporary non-objective practice from MINUS SPACE New York. A survey of reductive strategies by artists living in and around New York City. Presenting a single work from each artist, as well as an open letter to the artist community affiliated with RMIT Non Objective.
Liz Shreeve: Boxing Light, Factory 49, Sydney, Australia
Liz Shreeve, 81 Light Boxes, 2009 Gesso, acrylic and wax on wood, 180 x 180 x 5 cm (no web site) April 9-18, 2009 Liz Shreeve’s paradoxically subtle and astonishing works make the viewer consciously aware of ambient light and the beauty of sight. In Boxing Light, wall mounted and free standing structures transform the available light into soft clouds of glowing colour.
Christoph Dahlhausen & Michael Graeve: Dialogue II, Place Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Christoph Dahlhausen & Michael Graeve Dialog I, 2006, Raum 2810, Bonn, Germany Photo: Christoph Dahlhausen March 18 – April 18, 2009 (closed Easter Saturday) Sound performance and artists’ talk on Saturday, March 21, 3pm
Christopher Dean, Factory 49, Sydney, Australia
Christopher Dean, Middle Age Hard Edge Abstractionist from St Marys Seeking Same, 2007 Oil on canvas, 45 x 45 cm Photo: Adam Hollingworth & Blacktown Arts Centre March 26 – April 4, 2009 Factory 49 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville, Sydney, 2204 Three Pink Monochromes (a work in progress) The first pink monochromes were made in 1993 and since this time Dean has continued to explore and experiment with this concept. The combination of the tradition [...]
Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Yayoi Kusama, Fireflies on the Water 2000 Light bulbs, water, mirror room, 300 x 450 x 450 cm Collection: FNAC, France Image courtesy the artist, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, and Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo Until June 8, 2009 Yayoi Kusama: Mirrored Years explores the extraordinary work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (born 1929 Matsumoto City in Nagano Prefecture, Japan). The exhibition reveals the coherence of her practice over many decades and highlights the freshness [...]
Clint Doyle, Factory 49, Sydney, Australia
Clint Doyle, Yellow Painting, 2008 Oil on canvas 62 x 85 cm (no web site) February 26 – March 7, 2009 Clint Doyle’s paintings are composed of numerous colours of yellows, layered on canvas, rendered closely together allowing for duration of perception for the colours to appear giving way to a feeling of intoxication.
Sydney Ball: In Light of Colour, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney, Australia
September 9-28, 2008 In 2007 Sydney Ball revisited the direct pictorial architecture of his Canto paintings to develop Structures 2, a series of radiant abstract colour works. The modernist architecture of Mies Van Der Rohe and Zaha Hadid – and their open-ended, problem-solving approach to refined ‘architectonic form’ – provided a framework that resonated with Ball’s artistic practice. As a young man, Ball worked as an architectural draughtsman before moving to New York in [...]
Michael Graeve: In Combination, Place Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Michael Graeve, Untitled, 2008 Digital print on aluminium, 28 x 36cm August 27 — September 20, 2008 …”Sometime during the same period I was to read the following passage written about Blinky Palermo and Imi Knoebel: “Palermo is a craftsman, moving on from one commission to the next and assembling individual pieces with the utmost care; by contrast Imi Knoebel pays his objects just so much attention as they need in order to exist [...]
Subset (Conical Gets Shanghai’d), Conical, Melbourne, Australia
Installation view with work by Billy Gruner July 26 — August 16, 2008 Partcipating artists include Daniel Argyle, Billy Gruner, Kyle Jenkins & Tilman.
Drawing a Conclusion, Curated by Danny Lacy, Hell Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Installation view June 28 — July 19, 2008 Participating artists include ERNESTO BURGOS (USA) / NADINE CHRISTENSEN / MATTHEW DELEGET (USA) / ANTHONY FARRELL / TORBEN GIEHLER (USA) / LILY HIBBERD / CHRIS LG HILL / HEIDI LINCK (NL) / NICK MANGAN / ROB MCHAFFIE / OLA VASILJEVA (LV/NL) / GABRIELLA MANGANO & SILVANA MANGANO.
Tilman, Peloton, Sydney, Australia
Installation view June 12 — July 5, 2008
SNO 38: Ward Denys, Billy Gruner, Clemens Hollerer, Andrew Leslie, Tilman, & Rik Rue, Sydney Non Objective, Sydney, Australia
Work by Billy Gruner June 7-29, 2008
