Anti-Portraits Exhibition
June 23rd 2010 06:22
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Light Square Gallery
Photo-media exhibition
Anti-Portraits, Menacing Figures and Dreamy Reminiscence
Starts Wednesday June 30
Concludes Thursday July 22
Light Square Gallery
39 Light Square
Adelaide, 5000
Opening night: 6:00pm, Wednesday June 30. To be opened by Dr Domenico de Clario, Director of the Australian Experimental Art Foundation.
Photo-media artists Jen Brazier, Edward James and Danielle Walpole each present their latest body of work in a group exhibition at Light Square Gallery.
The exhibition features the work of three visual artists who have been collaborating for many years as members of the Shoot artists collective - a group of new-media artists that have gained much recognition through public art commissions, festivals and events.
In Jen Brazier's series of large-scale works - Fools Gold and Menace - the viewer is confronted by a passionate yet composed golden female figure, unaware of the menacing shadow that crouches beside her. Brazier's work illustrates a juxtaposition, persuading the viewer to delve firstly into the tension between the two figures, then perhaps the two different states of mind the figures may represent: paranoia, loneliness and longing; passion, confidence and contentment.
Edward James is a visual alchemist on a quest for the perfect anti-portrait. Taking as his departure point the biological premise that significant sections of our brains are employed specifically to 'read' human faces, James explores the limits to which this innate cerebral skill can be extended. In an obsessive, reductive process, James wilfully engages in breaking down visual information; his large-scale portrait Black Sky Blue #1 extrapolates the concept of the anti-portrait reducing the image to its basest level, leaving the viewer with a distilled essence from which to rebuild, review and re-engage.
For Danielle Walpole, recalling memories from childhood provides the impetus for her photographic series Reminiscence.
Beautifully composed with a visible air of dreaminess, the series is comprised of seven perfectly balanced idyllic images that juxtapose the figurative with landscape, in an attempt to visually communicate this concept of remembering the past.
All three artists are 2003 graduates from the Adelaide College of the Arts, a Helpmann Academy partner.
Anti-Portraits, Menacing Figures and Dreamy Reminiscence
Starts Wednesday June 30
Concludes Thursday July 22
Light Square Gallery
39 Light Square
Adelaide, 5000
Opening night: 6:00pm, Wednesday June 30. To be opened by Dr Domenico de Clario, Director of the Australian Experimental Art Foundation.
Photo-media artists Jen Brazier, Edward James and Danielle Walpole each present their latest body of work in a group exhibition at Light Square Gallery.
The exhibition features the work of three visual artists who have been collaborating for many years as members of the Shoot artists collective - a group of new-media artists that have gained much recognition through public art commissions, festivals and events.
In Jen Brazier's series of large-scale works - Fools Gold and Menace - the viewer is confronted by a passionate yet composed golden female figure, unaware of the menacing shadow that crouches beside her. Brazier's work illustrates a juxtaposition, persuading the viewer to delve firstly into the tension between the two figures, then perhaps the two different states of mind the figures may represent: paranoia, loneliness and longing; passion, confidence and contentment.
For Danielle Walpole, recalling memories from childhood provides the impetus for her photographic series Reminiscence.
Reminiscence
All three artists are 2003 graduates from the Adelaide College of the Arts, a Helpmann Academy partner.
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