Art thoughts

Yarra Bend Gallery

Que des femmes/Only women

Melbourne virtual satellite 'The home show'

Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery

September 22 - 19 November

Curated by Terri Brooks and Louise Blyton

International curator Billy Gruner

Bienniale Curator Roland Orepuk

Rose Moxham (qld), Marlene Sarroff (nsw), Suzan Shutan (us), Louise Gresswell
Irene Barberis, Jennifer Joseph, Wilma Tabacco, Louise Blyton, Karen Schifano (us)
Anna Caione, Emma Langridge, Suzie Idiens (nsw), Susan Buret (nsw)
Bogumila Strojna (fr), Danielle Lescot (fr), Connie Goldman (us), Sarah Robson (nsw)
Munira Naqui (us), Wendy Kelly, Terri Brooks

Melbourne is one of the most locked down cities in the world due to Covid-19. When Billy Gruner invited Terri Brooks and Louise Blyton to host the 6th international biennale of non objective art the artists hatched a plan. ‘The Home Show’ is a virtual group exhibition of twenty leading women abstract artists.

Exterior placement:

Anna Caione, La Mamma Disperso, 2020,

mixed media, acrylic paint, 40 x 12 cm.

Terri Brooks, White Paint, 2021,

oil on paper, 27 x 20 x 12 cm.

Marlene Sarroff, Equilibrium 2, Equilibrium series, 2014,

industrial rubber, wood, 25 x 30 cm.

Bogumila Strojna, Cube, 2018,
epoxy on aluminium 24 x 24 x .3 cm.

Rose Moxham, Pink Cathedral, 2020,

oil and wax on wood, 20 x 14 cm

Louise Gresswell, Fractured (blue edge), 2018,

oil on board, 36 x 27.5 cm.

Emma Langridge, Disrupt III, 2020,

enamel / acrylic on wood, 29 x 21 cm.

Irene Barberis, Assemble Series # 2 Sol Lewitt Studio, 2019,

164 x 22 cm.

Louise Blyton, X, 2021,

acrylic on linen on wood, 31 x 31 cm.

Connie Goldman, Phasis III, 2007,

oil on panel, 25 x 25 cm x 2.

Photography Louise Blyton and Terri Brooks.

Yarra Bend Gallery (part 2)

Que des femmes/Only women

Melbourne virtual satellite 'The home show'

Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery

September 22 - 19 November

Curated by Terri Brooks and Louise Blyton

International curator Billy Gruner

Bienniale Curator Roland Orepuk

Munira Naqui (us), Wendy Kelly, Terri Brooks

Exterior placement:

Sarah Robson, Unfolding geometries (shirt grid), 2018,

cotton shirt, 50 x 25 cm. Pinned to the wall.

Suzan Shutan, Galls, c2016,

tar roofing paper, pom poms, 34 x 22 cm.

Susan Buret, Flutter, 2010,

acrylic on birch panel, 20 x 15 cm.

Danielle Lescot, Brisant, c2015,

white stoneware, 18 x18 x 18 cm.

Karen Schifano, Untitled, 2013,

acrylic on panel, 15 x 19 cm.

Suzie Idiens, Untitled (Black Pair), 2013,

ply and acrylic, 25 x 50 x 5 cm.

Jennifer Joseph, Untitled, 2016,

acrylic on wood, 70 x 40 cm each.

(Jennifer Joseph is represented by Niagara Galleries Melbourne).

Wilma Tabacco, Small Excavation (selected works), 2015,

acrylic on canvas panel, 15.2 x 30.3 cm each.

Munira Naqui, Harvest Moon, 2017,

pigment, encaustic wax on wood, 20 x 15 cm.

Wendy Kelly, Traverse, 2016-7,

acrylic, oil and thread on canvas, 61 x 51 cm.

Photography Louise Blyton and Terri Brooks.

The Home Show

Que des femmes/Only women

Melbourne virtual satellite 'The home show'

Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery

September 22 - 19 November

Curated by Terri Brooks and Louise Blyton

International curator Billy Gruner

Bienniale Curator Roland Orepuk

Melbourne is one of the most locked down cities in the world due to Covid-19. When Billy Gruner invited Terri Brooks and Louise Blyton to host the 6th international biennale of non objective art the artists hatched a plan. ‘The Home Show’ is a virtual group exhibition of twenty leading women abstract artists.

The interiors:

Suzie Idiens, Untitled (Black Pair), 2013,

ply and acrylic, 25 x 50 x 5 cm.

Wilma Tabacco, Small Excavation (selected works), 2015,
acrylic on canvas panel, 15.2 x 30.3 cm each.

Munira Naqui, Harvest Moon, 2017, pigment,

encaustic wax on wood, 20 x 15 cm.

Suzan Shutan, Galls, c2016,

tar roofing paper, pom poms, 34 x 22 cm.

Karen Schifano, Untitled, 2013,
acrylic on panel, 15 x 19 cm.

Emma Langridge, Disrupt III, 2020,
enamel / acrylic on wood, 29 x 21 cm.

Susan Buret, Flutter, 2010,

acrylic on birch panel, 20 x 15 cm.

Anna Caione, La Mamma Disperso, 2020,

mixed media, acrylic paint, 40 x 12 cm.

Terri Brooks, White Paint, 2021,

oil on paper, 27 x 20 x 12 cm. (ceramics Kris Coad).

Wendy Kelly, Traverse, 2016-7,
acrylic, oil and thread on canvas, 61 x 51 cm. (Bowl Ruth Levine).

Photography Louise Blyton and Terri Brooks.

The Home Show (part 2)

Que des femmes/Only women

Melbourne virtual satellite 'The home show'

Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery

September 22 - 19 November

Curated by Terri Brooks and Louise Blyton

International curator Billy Gruner

Bienniale Curator Roland Orepuk

The interiors:

Louise Blyton, X, 2021,
acrylic on linen on wood, 31 x 31 cm.

Marlene Sarroff, Equilibrium 2, Equilibrium series, 2014,

industrial rubber, wood, 25 x 30 cm.

Jennifer Joseph, Untitled, 2016,
acrylic on wood, 70 x 40 cm each.
(Jennifer Joseph is represented by Niagara Galleries Melbourne).

Irene Barberis, Assemble Series # 2, Sol Lewitt Studio, 2019, 164 x 22 cm.

Bogumila Strojna, Cube, 2018,

epoxy on aluminium 24 x 24 x .3 cm.

Rose Moxham, Pink Cathedral, 2020,
oil and wax on wood, 20 x 14 cm.

Sarah Robson, Unfolding geometries (shirt grid), 2018,

cotton shirt, 50 x 25 cm. Pinned to the wall.

Louise Gresswell, Fractured (blue edge), 2018, oil on board, 36 x 27.5cm.

Danielle Lescot, Brisant, c2015,
white stoneware,18 x18 x 18 cm.

Connie Goldman, Phasis III, 2007,
oil on panel, 25 x 25 cm x 2.

Photography Louise Blyton and Terri Brooks.

6th biennale of international non objective art

Que des femmes/Only women

Melbourne virtual satellite 'The home show'

Hosted by Art Thoughts AU at Yarra Bend Gallery

September 22 - 19 November

Curated by Terri Brooks and Louise Blyton

International curator Billy Gruner

Bienniale Curator Roland Orepuk

When Kazimir Malevich exhibited the revolutionary painting ‘Black Square’ circa 1915, he transformed Modernism. Malevich said of the painting ‘the experience of pure non-objectivity in the white emptiness of a liberated nothing’.

A century on from the genesis of non-objectivity and concrete art within Western Art there has been a succession of relative movements in Modernism, some of which are Suprematism, Constructivism, De Stijl, Bauhaus, ZERO, Arte Povera, Op Art, Minimalism, Hard Edge Painting, Process Art and Neo-Geo.

Coinciding with the Women’s Liberation Movement gaining traction in the 1960s a few non-male artists such as Agnes Martin, Anne Truitt, Jo Baer and Bridget Riley gained major recognition within ‘Abstraction’. ‘Que des femmes’/Only Women, is the 6th Biennale of Non Objective Art and is dedicated to the work of women. The premier exhibition is in France, with satellites, including this Melbourne edition.

The history of Western Art is by and large a male artist history.

Today women artists are free to invent their own histories.