Art thoughts

Connie Goldman

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

Connie Goldman’s work mirrors the rhythm, structure, space, and relationships in music, architecture, language, and science. She utilizes essential means to describe the most basic of natural phenomena, the contradictory forces of stasis and flux.

Goldman was born in El Paso, TX. She has resided in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years. She holds an MFA in painting and drawing from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Goldman has exhibited internationally, and has work in public and private collections including the Laguna Beach Art Museum and the El Paso Museum of Art. Goldman taught at San Francisco State University, San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, and at Santa Rosa Junior College for the better part of two decades.

Goldman maintains a studio in Petaluma, CA.. Her website is www.conniegoldman.com.

Suzie Idiens

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

Suzie Idiens is interested in the subjective nature of perception and the paradox that arises when viewing reductive abstract art - the effects are self-referential and rational while simultaneously evoking a visceral experience. By methodically questioning the effects of adjusting geometric form, repeatedly manipulating its shape or frontal plane, and restricting the use of applied colour, she asks how the sum of these actions will impact the viewer's experience.

Untitled #2, 2017, MDF, polyurethane, 60 x 54 x 5cm.

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