DRAWING SHOW

DRAWING SHOW - DAVID KRUT GALLERY
Curated by Michael MacGarry
10 September - 11 October 2008

Total freedom means...
My context is melting...
A shimmering cascade of luminous colour...
AfroFuturism and the beginning of...

THE DINING ROOM YOUNG - 594mm x 841mm - Archival inks on 100% cotton rag - Edition of 5

AND I KNOW YOUR PASSWORD - 594mm x 841mm - Archival inks on 100% cotton rag - Edition of 5

CHASM

DICHOTOMY - MAGPIE GALLERY
6 September - 25 September 2008

Chasm presents the culmination of all my research and thought. it employs a visual grammar comprised of the Romantic Sublime; the Modernistic Absolute and the Post-Modern Hallucinogenic. Each of these visual devices aim to create an experience of escape in that they involve a certain Self-forgetfulness. They intend to release the perceiver from the constraints of the human condition through some euphoric/sedated disconnection.

The resultant visual is akin to a type of doorway onto an existential abyss. There is the beginning of something and the end of another: a threshold that once crossed, will change everything. A dark formless uncertainty at once grotesque and beautiful - still, silent yet menacing.

THE THICK UNGIVING COLLAR - 594mm x 841mm - Archival inks on 100% cotton rag - Edition of 5

YAWNED BEFORE US - 594mm x 841mm - Archival inks on 100% cotton rag - Edition of 5

THE LITTLE DEATH

COLLAGIST - THE GALLERY PREMISES
Curated by Leigh-Anne Niehaus

Our most common daily escape is sleep. We can lose our Selves in dreams, in nightmares, in orgasm (la petite mort - the little death)

Inspired by distinctive nightmare features of Dark Romanticism (the supernatural, the incubus, the horse, subversive love, death) these collage pieces relate to our current promiscuous age: contemporary eroticism. A surreal perverse multiform. We wish to liberate our Selves from the terrors - or understand the terrors that never leave us.

STAG NIGHT MARE - 297mm x 420mm - Collage on albanene vellum

O, SCENT OF OUR SADDLEBACK SMEGMA - 297mm x 420mm - Collage on albanene vellum

SO STRICT - 297mm x 420mm - Collage on albanene vellum

PLEASE DON’T CRY - 297mm x 420mm - Collage on albanene vellum

THE GELDING SHOWER - 297mm x 420mm - Collage on albanene vellum

VERY VERY YOUNG - 297mm x 420mm - Collage on albanene vellum

THOUGHT TRAFFIC

THOUGHT TRAFFIC - THE GALLERY PREMISES
Curated by Brenden Gray & Leigh-Anne Niehaus
30 june - 28 july 2007

“Thought Traffic” is an informal exhibition that consists of contemporary artists who produce drawings within the context of the everyday. The body of work illustrates the ways in which drawing permeates artists’ experience of daily life: image-making invades agenda’s, minutes, colonises the margins of official documents, takes possession of envelopes, serviettes, and plagues diaries and personal organisers.

PORTRAITS OF THE ABSURD MAN

The Absurd man is powerless to calm his anguish. He does not attempt to escape his condition. The Absurd man is fed with indifference to live without hope or appeal. He is innocent because sin has no meaning. He accepts despair as an ultimate freedom.

THE STRANGER (LATER DUDE) - 210mm x 297mm - Colour marker on munken pure

THE OUTSIDER (COOL GUY) - 210mm x 297mm - Colour marker on munken pure

SKETCHES

NULL & VOID

Humans have a constant disposition to think of negative terms in positive forms. An incurable mental vice to accumulate meaning in terms. Our minds persist in handling even such openly negative terms as Null or Void as though they were real existences.

This series deals with Not-things or rather the human visual shortcomings in dealing with Not-things. Positive forms failing to completely represent negative terms. These ‘Blind Embryos’ are delusive: rendering something solid and full when it is really hollow with no content whatever.

210mm x 297mm - Varnish on albanene vellum