Time Now
To June 7
Niagara
245 Punt Road
Richmond
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| A Little Less Conversation and a Little More Action Please 1, 2023, acrylic, ink, black gesso, white gesso, charcoal, canvas, hessian and cotton on linen 122 x 90cm (irregular) |
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We shall overcome, 2020, acrylic and metal on wood 33.5 x 20.5 x 4.5 cm (irregular) |
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He said the time will come, 2021-22, acrylic, ink, conte, pastel, charcoal, paper and cotton on paper 146.5 x 85.5cm. |
Abstraction may have been
the primary innovation of Modernism but it is an image methodology dating back
to the earliest examples of human innovation.
There are echoes of others within Jennifer Joseph's
works. It's an informed educated aesthetic. Late Modernists that came to mind
included Tony Tuckson, Colin McCahon, Rosalie Gascoigne, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly.
Individually within the small works installation, each
work is constructed with such finesse and suggestion that they evoked pure joy for
the painter within me. Every work hovers on its own unique outcome. The speed
of a brush stroke at the base of a composition, the proportions of what seems a
found lump of wood with dribbles on the side that make the face of the painting
work. It's a masterful collection.
Joseph works at night and the sombre light in her
paintings cast a unique tone and mood over her personal iterations.
The two large works in the show are outstanding
examples of Australian Abstraction. They are quite simply world class painting.