Art thoughts

Catherine Hearse and Glenn Murray

Complex Life
To June 15
fortyfivedownstairs
45 Flinders Lane
Melbourne

Installation photo Catherine Hearse.

Installation photo Glenn Murray.

‘Complex Life brings together the work of two friends and artists, Catherine Hearse and Glenn Murray. Both artists use their artistic processes to explore the idea of interdependence and their positions in the world, in a physical, environmental and emotional sense.’ fortyfivedownstairs website.

Heather Shimmen

The Ladies of the Pleiades
1 June – 14 July
survey exhibition
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale
Opening speaker Stuart Purves AM, Director, Australian Galleries

Installation photo Kari Henriksen

Shimmen’s linocut prints are layered images; featuring prints, fabrics and felts, that draw on the rich history of local and ancient mythology including ‘The Lady of the Swamp’; ‘The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades’; and Shimmen’s own creation ‘Matilda Waltzing’.

Asta Gröting

Berlin Facades (2016-) consists of a series of negative imprints made out of silicone that are monumental in size. They track the traces of the bullet holes made during war in facades that have not yet been renovated.

Mausoleum, 2016, Silicon, Jute, Sandstone, 373 × 373 × 10 cm.

Sockel Winzerin, 2016, Silicon, Jute, Moss, 233 × 180 × 9 cm.

Asta Gröting installation.

Susan Buret

Recent exhibition
Double Take 2
Sydney Non Objective

497 Parramatta Road

and Articulate Project Space

297 Paramatta RoadLeighhardt, Sydney

Susan Buret

Isabel Davies

Recent Geometric Constructions
Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
Level 8, Room 16, Nicholas Building
closed May 18.

Isabel Davies, Square variations, 2017 — 2019, mixed media

Isabel Davies, Installation photo, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery.

Isabel Davies

Isabel Davies sketch book.

Isabel Davies was in born 1929. Visit the artist's website here

Adrian Corke

The World of Interiors
For Langford 120
To June 9
West End Art Space
137 Adderley Street
West Melbourne

Adrian Corke

Installation photo, The world of interiors, Adrian Corke.

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.