Art thoughts

Suzan Buret

6th international biennale of non objective art
Que des femmes/Only women
Melbourne virtual satellite
Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery
September 22 - 19 November

Stolen Geometry

'On a clear autumn day, I walk along a cypress-lined ridge into a garden filled with a riotous discord of roses, marigolds, dahlias and zinnias. Sunlight glints on the water jets of rows of fountains. I walk on paths patterned with inlaid stones and continue on to find myself inside the richly tessellated surfaces of the Nasrid Palace. These walls within the red fortress, El Alhambra, in Granada, Spain are covered with the geometric pattern.

My works are informed by stolen geometry from these gardens of love that I continue to visit in my dreams.' Susan Buret, July 2021

Emma Langridge

6th international biennale of non objective art
Que des femmes/Only women
Melbourne virtual satellite
Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery
September 22 - 19 November

'I make paintings and take photographs of the urban environment.

I am interested in glitch, fracture and malfunction, particularly within regimented and meditative processes.

As John Cage said, "I welcome whatever happens next."'

‘Repeater’ installation, Five Walls, Melbourne. L-R right wall, Beacon I-IV, Tocsin, each acrylic on wood, 2019.

Suzan Shutan

6th international biennale of non objective art
Que des femmes/Only women
Melbourne virtual satellite
Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery
September 22 - 19 November

‘Conceptually non objective, my work explores sensory stimuli such as water, and while material driven, it also examines psychological space informed by color field, geometric abstraction, pattern movement, and shapes and colors I find in nature and our built environment. I think of color as a cornucopia of visual pleasure. It is light but also stimulates an array of emotions that shape our perceptions of an ever-changing environment.’ Suzan Shutan

Suzan Shutan received a BFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, and a MFA from Rutgers University Mason Gross, NJ. Her work has been shown throughout the United States, South America, Eastern & Central Europe, Australia and in 23 solo exhibits and 190 group exhibitions.

Suzan has taught at RISD, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Nebraska, Quinnipiac University and continues to teach Sculpture at Housatonic Community College and with low residency MFA students in programs including Lesley College at Harvard, MA. www.suzanshutan.com

Ooze Tar Paper, 2019.

Karen Schifano

6th international biennale of non objective art
Que des femmes/Only women
Melbourne virtual satellite
Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery
September 22 - 19 November

Karen Schifano is a reductive abstract painter who lives and works in NYC. She has shown work in the USA and Internationally. Exhibitions in Australia include Sydney Non-Objective, and Suzie Idien’s Project Space in Sydney, and the Reductive Non-Objective Project at Five Walls in Melbourne. The strong abstract painting tradition in Australia has been a big influence and artistic connection over the years, both online and through the artists visiting New York. Cheers to my artist friends down under! Karen Schifano 2021.

Mortal Coil, 2021, flashe on canvas, 71 x 91 cm (28 x 36").

Rose Moxham

6th international biennale of non objective art
Que des femmes/Only women

Melbourne virtual satellite
Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery
September 22 - 19 November

My work is based in nature, specifically the mangrove, living where I do on Moreton Bay with the mudflat at my door. It is a boundless subject, my only subject, and there are myriad ways of seeing and approaching it. I have chosen to not settle on any one approach (although the one informs the other), partly because it would be untrue to both the mangrove and to how I work, and also because it gives me scope to investigate in many forms not only the physical, conceptual and emotional content of the subject, but also that of the materials I use.

At the beach, 2021, oil on wood, 12 x 20 cm.

Tracey Lamb

Ode to Marion, Problem No 03 (D), welded steel, enamel paint, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds, 2019.

Tracey Lamb is a sculptor based in Naarm / Melbourne. Her practice is informed by the aesthetics of mid-century design, encompassing, architecture and interior design. Large installations reference women whose work has been marginalised or erased from these related histories. Smaller works are abstracted fragments removed from their original design context. Lamb is a self-taught welder and constructs her work from her home studio.

Abstract architectural assemblage, The Churchie, The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2019.

She has an MFA from Monash University, 2018 and a BFA (Visual Art) Honours from the Victorian College of the Arts and qualifications in Interior Design.

Lamb has been in multiple group and solo shows and has shown work throughout Australia, also Milan and Berlin. She has also been a finalist in many awards shows and received multiple prizes for her work. Her art is held in collections within Australia and internationally.

Diva, welded steel, clear enamel coating, Curatorial & Co, Sydney, 2021.

Point of View, welded steel, Montsalvat, Eltham, 2018/19.

Lamb is represented by Curatorial & Co, Sydney.
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Guy de Rougemont

1935-2021
France

A chair, 1967, lacquered PVC, 110 x 50 x 50 cm.

‘De Rougemont possessed a unique ability to blur the boundaries between the fine and decorative arts ... Throughout his career, he considered himself a painter, although he was well known for his expressive furniture designs. He once stated simply that he was a painter who designed furniture and made sculptures.’ Excerpt Architectural Digest

‘De L’Ellipse a la ligne serpentine, 2019,
installation image, Diane de Polignac Gallery, Paris

Artists’ home

Guy de Rougemont

Sculpture dining table, 1971, stainless steel, perspex H. 75 x 160 cm.

Spring1883 2021

Aug 4 – 29

‘The seventh edition of Spring1883 takes place at satellite spaces across Melbourne from 4-29 August 2021.

Spring1883 is a young and exciting gallerist-led art fair that presents the best of contemporary art practice from Australia and New Zealand.

Spring1883 was established in 2014 by Geoff Newton (Director, Neon Parc), Vikki McInnes and Kate Barber (Directors, Sarah Scout Presents) and Vasili Kaliman (art advisor), and launched at The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne in August 2014.’ Artsy

Selected work

Nicholas Thompson Gallery

Antonia Sellbach, Framework relief # 1, 2021.
Acrylic on Victorian Ash, 200 x 240 x 60 cm.

Gallery9

Louise Gresswell, Untitled (green), 2021.
Oil on board, 35 x 27 cm.

LON Gallery

Tia Ansell, Miles, 2021.
Acrylic on cotton and wool weaving, 83 x 63 x 6 cm.

Artereal Gallery

Luke Ryan O’Connor, Polychrome Barrel Vessel, Green and Yellow, 2021.
Stoneware, Glaze, Gold Lustre, 28 x 18 x 18 cm.

Blackartprojects

Madeleine Preston, Self Portrait, 2020.
Glazed and sandblasted raku, 34 x 12 x 14 cm.

Mars Gallery

Eliza Gosse, On the Patio Munching on Smiths’ Chips Carpet, 2020.
Wool and canvas, 28.5 x 23.5 x 2 cm.

Neon Parc

Teelah George, Petal, 2021.
Thread, linen, bronze, 123 x 100 cm.

Louise Fishman

'Louise Fishman, whose stylish paintings synthesized modernist abstraction with her identity as a queer Jewish feminist, died in New York on Monday at 82. A representative for Karma, the New York gallery that represents her, confirmed her death.

“The world has lost a formidable painter, activist and friend, whose pursuit of individual freedom and personal expression was her primary motivation as an artist,” Karma wrote in a statement posted to Instagram. “Her death leaves a tremendous void in the art world.”' Excerpt Alex Greenberger, ARTnet news July 26.

Louise Fishman at Cheim and Read

Louise Fishman painting detail

Photos via artist Cary Smith of Louise Fishman’s 2017 exhibition at Cheim and Read, New York.

Link to Cary Smith's painting on Two Coats of Paint

Ruark Lewis

Homage to Orange
Painting installation
April 18

In Praise of Trees, a street event

Ruark Lewis, In Praise of Trees, Homage to Orange

Ruark Lewis, 'Stanza 1: The Orange Tree, by poet John Shaw Neilson, circa 1919.'

Ruark Lewis is a Sydney-based visual artist and writer, renowned for his linking of art, poetics and political discussions. His technique of transcription is a form of abstracting language re-contextualised into sculptural installations. Ruark has exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Sydney Olympics; Biennale of Sydney 2006; Toronto’s Nuit Blanche festival, 2008 and in the 2015 Darwin Arts Festival. Biographical excerpt http://millerspointcommunity.com.au/ruark-lewis/