Art thoughts

A Field of Interest - c 1968

ABSTRACTION 17
April 26 - May 19, 2018
Charles Nodrum Gallery
Richmond

'A group exhibition of hard-edge colour-field works to coincide with the re-staging of 1968 The Field exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria.'

Included in this exhibition are additional works from artists in the original exhibition and artists of the period who may have been included in the seminal exhibition if circumstances were different (namely, in this case, women artists).

L: Tony McGillick, National, 1968, acrylic on canvas, 168 x 275 cm.

R: Richard Dunn, NYC #1, 1968, pigment, acrylic and enamel on canvas, 183 x 488 cm.

L:Margaret Worth, Untitled, 1968, SPE on two shaped marine plywood panels, 122 x 30 x 30 cm.
R: David Aspden, Jnana, c. 1966, acrylic on canvas, 175.5 x 150 cm.

L: Ron Robertson-Swann, Across Matisse, 1964, acrylic on cotton duck, 56.8 x 86 cm.
R: Ron Robertson-Swann, Pink Alice, 1968, acrylic on cotton duck, 259 x 104.8 cm.

L: Michael Johnson, Frontal, 1968, acrylic on canvas, 198 x 172 cm.
R: Margaret Worth, Genus O No. 1, 1966 - 1967, SPE on canvas, 91 x 275 cm.

Virginia Coventry, Solid Blue Silence, 1969, acrylic on cotton duck, in original aluminium frame, 106.5 x 244 cm.

Trevor Vickers, Untitled, 1967.

Col Jordan, Blue Falling, 1967, acrylic on shaped marine ply, 220 x 220 x 15 cm.

It all looks so wonderfully medieval.

Abstraction Twenty Eighteen - Langford 120

Curated by Steven Wickham.
Selected work:

Wilma Tabacco, Bronze Construction 1 and 2,
Blue Construction, all 2013, acrylic on panel, 40 x 40 cm.

Andrew Christofides, Patriot, 2003, acrylic on canvas, 112 x 76 cm.

Emma Langridge, yaw, 2017-18, enamel / acrylic on wood, 40 x 50 cm.

Christopher Heathcote, Swingin' Easy, 2016, oil on linen, 112 x 56 cm.

Wendy Kelly, Traverse, 2017. Oil, acrylic, thread and inert pigment on linen, 61 x 51 cm.

Louise Blyton, Long Red Line, 2018, acrylic on linen, 190 x 26 x 5 cm.

Dan Wollmering, Penaga (1.2), 2016-7, balsa wood, acrylic paint, soap 2 part work;
15 cm D x 8 cm H, 4.4 cm D x 2.2 cm H.

Abstraction Twenty Eighteen - Five Walls

Five Walls Hall

Curated by Steven Wickham.

Selected works:

Adrian de Giorgio ‘Shadowplay’
Acrylic on Tasmanian oak coverstrap on board.

L-R Donna Comfort ‘’Proto Type’ 2018, Steel construction.
Magda Cebokli, Light Painting #2 2008, Acrylic on canvas.
Aaron Martin, Double Monochrome (cadmium orange) 2018,
oil and epoxy enamel on linen.

Chris Packer ‘Pythia’ 2017 Gesso on cotton tape on canvas.

Troy Innocent, Non-Objective World 68, 2018, laser cut plywood
and acrylic on hardboard with playable augmented reality.

Adrian De Vries, Lily Pads, 2018, Gouache, plaster on steel hooks.

Abstraction Twenty Eighteen

The biggest thing in Australian art right now! The inaugural opening of the new National Gallery of Victoria held 'The Field' exhibition in 1968. On the 50th anniversary the NGV is staging 'The Field Revisited'. In conjunction many Melbourne galleries are holding satellite exhibitions. Most notably Abstraction Twenty Eighteen. Curated by Stephen Wickham.

Marcia Hafif

“I’m just not painting a subject, other than the painting itself.” Marcia Hafif, 1929-2018, ArtNews

Black painting II, 1979. Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber on canvas, 84 x78”

Marcia Hafif (R) 1960s

‘Hafif, like many other female artists of her generation, was overlooked by most of the art world until recently.’ Ivy Olsen, The Art Newspaper April 19.