Art thoughts

Miles Hall, Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Anthony White

Discrepant Subjects

3 Australian Artists in Paris
To June 4
Le Pavé d’Orsay.
48 rue de Lille.

Miles Hall, Pigmentation (Ultramarine), oil on linen, 40 x 33 cm.

Mostyn Branley-Moore, What I Can and Can't do later, 2019.

Anthony White, The Ayes have it, 2019, oil and Ripolin on canvas, 52 x 52 cm.

Lawrence Carroll

Lawrence Carroll 1954-2019

Lawrence Carroll, Installation, documenta IX, Kassel, Germany, 1992

‘The Australian-born, American-raised painter Lawrence Carroll—known for his expressively elegant, restrained sculptural pictures often assembled from found materials—has died. His death on Tuesday morning was announced by his Cologne gallery Karsten Greve, which has represented the artist since 1999. He was sixty-five years old.

Carroll quietly resisted trends or even a decipherable progression over the span of his forty-year career, though his muted color palette and use of household paint, stitched canvas, oil, wax, and dust to create works which existed in the space between object and art object remained throughout.’ Excerpt Artforum News

Lawrence Carroll, Table Painting, 2002.

Extended Gestures Extended

Ben Pell

Charlie Harding

Georgie North

Sean Mcdowell

to May 18
Five Walls

Melbourne

Charlie Harding

Ben Pell

'The title for this show is borrowed from the writers Claude Cernuschi and Andrzej Hercyznski who in their essay, The Subversion of Gravity in Jackson Pollock’s Abstractions, describe Pollock’s employment of gravity as a means “to extend the duration of his gestures”.1 In easel painting (and in some forms of sculpture), finding a new way to form the gesture has been an important pursuit by many artists, albeit, by the brush or through other less unorthodox means (Brice Marden with his extended stick or Richard Serra with his frenetic lead flinging, both serve as appropriate examples of this type of activity).

The four artists in Extended Gestures Extended build on this endeavour. They pursue methods that are provisional and intuitive and form marks that reference bodily activity. Bold strokes of colour are applied with careful attention to the stroke’s intensity and speed. They innovate ways to disperse paint, be it, through maximum thinning, or strokes that are at once, abbreviated and extended.

In Extended Gestures Extended the gesture is distilled, the painting process renovated and the very orthodoxies of easel painting challenged.' Aaron Martin Curator

Georgie North

Sean Mcdowell

Don Voisine

To June 9
McKenzie Fine Art, NY.

Orange Zip, 2019. Oil and acrylic on wood panel 40 x 40 inches

Don Voisine installation image

Pan Out, 2019. Oil on wood panel, 24 x 24 inches.

‘With each new exhibition, it becomes more apparent that Don Voisine is adding his own earned options to the legacy of geometric abstraction...

The urban aspect of Voisine’s paintings underscores his alertness to everyday sights and how they might inspire the forms that he places into his paintings...’ excerpts John Yau ‘Excavating the Radical Roots of Abstract Painting’ Hyperallergic, May 9,2019

Images McKenzie Fine Art, NY.

Colour/Field Two

Opening May 17, 6 pm

Cross Gallery
Bundaberg

Installation at Cross Gallery

Including works by

Roland Orépük

Louise Blyton

Louise Gresswell

Steffen Schiemann

Marlene Sarroff

Christian Flynn

Jo Katsiaris

Brent Hallard

Nicolo Baraggioli

Deb Covell

Stuart Fineman

Terri Brooks

Beverly Rautenberg

Simon Kilvert

Louise Tuckwell

Featured artist Roland Orépük based in France

Roland Orépük installation at Cross Gallery

Roland Orépük's installation Outside Wall Work, at Factory 49 in Sydney, 2008

In south-east Queensland in the town of Bundaberg Clinton Cross is running a gallery which has consistently shown leading artists, particularly in the area of non-objective, reductive and abstract art. Not only leading Australian artists but also leading international artists in this field including Roland Orépük featured here. Clinton an artist himself is passionate about art in the best way and has his eye on what is exciting in the art world. Please look up and support his gallery either on instagram @crossgallerybundaberg or on the web https://www.cross-gallery1.com/ Clinton's gallery is the only Australian gallery I am aware of with such a continuous line up of leading international artists.

Colour Field Two features national artists as well as artists from France, Germany, America, Britain and Italy.

Renée Levi

Istanbul (Turkey)
Lives & works in Basel (Switzerland)

Renée Levi

'In 2018, the artist was awarded the art prize of the Société des Arts de Genève, and CHF 50,000 in prize money. She studied architecture at the HTL Muttenz/Basel and fine arts at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich.' Excerpt Langmatt website

Renée Levi

"Renée Levi is known for working in public space, but perhaps it would be more accurate to say that she works on public space, on its re-elaboration, whereas it is on the point of becoming undone from palpable space. Far from rejecting this, Levi takes it as her starting point, such that her pieces, although physically inscribed in public places (schools, working-class housing complexes, banks, hospitals, cantonal assemblies and so on), go beyond the framework of the in situ work of art.” Excerpt CCNOA (Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art) website

Renée Levi

Artist book: Kill me afterwards, 2003.

Interpretations of Place

Pamela Honeyfield
Vanessa Ashcroft
Kathleen Rhee
Jana Hunt
Ros Auld
Barry Jackson
Felicity O'Connor
Claire Primrose
30 April - 19 May
FORM Studio and Gallery
Queanbeyan NSW

Selected images:

Pamela Honeyfield

10% of sales and all of the $20 tickets sales to the catered opening event Friday 3 May, 11.00 am are going to the Australian Cancer Research Foundation.

Felicity O'Connor

Barry Jackson

Ros Auld

The advent of photography aside, Abstract art during the Modernist period developed from a myriad of influences drawn from pre-Renaissance Western art, non-Western cultures and a broadening of traditional landscape, still life and portrait painting. A multitude of styles known as isms developed during the course of the Twentieth Century.

Turner, Manet’s loose brushwork, Monet and the Impressionists,The Fauves and The Blue Rider paved the way for late modernist influential abstract landscape painters including Willem de Kooning, Richard Diebenkorn, and Helen Frankenthaler.

Frank Stella

Recent Work
To June 22
Marianne Boesky Gallery
New York

Frank Stella installation at Marianne Boesky Gallery

‘Stella combines interlocking grids with more fluid and organic lines, creating a dynamic interplay between minimalist and gestural visual vocabularies.’ Excerpt Marianne Boesky Gallery website

Ruth Root

Forum 81

Curated by Eric Crosby
April 19 - August 25, 2019

Carnegie Museum of Art

Pittsburgh, USA

Installation photo courtesy of the artist, Carnegie Museum of Art

Untitled, 2017, Fabric, Plexiglas, enamel paint, and spray paint, 50 1/2 x 75 in (128.3 x 190.5 cm)
Andrew Kreps Gallery NY

Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) debuts a new body of work by American painter Ruth Root (b. Chicago, 1967) in the 81st installment of its Forum series dedicated to contemporary art. With a jolt of pattern and shape, Root’s eccentric paintings dazzle and perplex with their play of geometry, color, and found images. These new works are composed of two parts involving a shaped panel painted with acrylic and spray paint suspended from a flexible sewn form covered with the artist’s own fabric designs. Incorporating found imagery from news media, art history, online search engines, and objects from CMOA’s own collection... ‘ excerpt CMOA website