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Firstdraft Gallery

September 20th, 2010 by Owen Craven | 1 Comment | Filed in exhibition
Jai McKenzie, Superstructure, 2010 (detail)

Jai McKenzie, Superstructure, 2010 (detail)

Firstdraft – one of Sydney’s many successful artist-run, not for profit, gallery spaces – is currently divided into four gallery spaces. On exhibition are Barbara Knezevic, Kirra Jamison, Giselle Stanborough and Jai McKenzie.

Each artist is using their space independently of one another and the result is four wonderful exhibitions of varying mediums.

In gallery four is Jai McKenize, an artist whose practice engages with light, space and time. Interested in contemporary experiences of technology, her work explores this experiential theme in a variety of media – from installations and sculptures, to film and photographs. The work in this exhibition, Superstructure, further explores these notions by looking at specific mid-twentieth century architectural concepts.

As McKenzie explains in her artist statement, “Buckminster Fuller and Superstudio proposed the unrealized construction of large circumscribing forms intended to encase or disrupt urban spaces to enable holistic systems for living, connection, and growth”. Superstructure is a site specific installation which borrows from and refers to this notion through its form, while at the same time, conceptually, it asks the viewers to consider the role of space, time and technologies in our contemporary social organisation.

Super structure is on exhibition alongside In pursuit of a state of uncertainty (Knezevic), Surrender Star (Jamison), and Space Exploration (Stanborough).

Until Sunday 26 September 2010. 116-118 Chalmers Street, Surry Hills, NSW.

Artist talks will take place on Sunday 26 September from 4pm.

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DAVID SERISIER @ LIVERPOOL STREET GALLERY, SYDNEY

May 7th, 2010 by Owen Craven | 1 Comment | Filed in exhibition
From top left to bottom right: David Serisier, untitled yellow square painting, untitled grey painting, untitled red square painting, untitled blue painting, 2010, all oil on linen, 45.7 cm x 45.7 cm each

From top left to bottom right: David Serisier, untitled yellow square painting, untitled grey painting, untitled red square painting, untitled blue painting, 2010, all oil on linen, 45.7 x 45.7 cm each

David Serisier’s latest body of abstract paintings further explores his interest into the perception of colour and light; issues of materiality and immateriality; and his passion for the geometry of the square. The exhibition is made up of five large paintings of varying monochromatic colours, four smaller monochromatic paints, and a series of prints made through a collaboration with Diana Davidson.

David has recently travelled to Japan and the USA, where he encountered different light and space. Attempts to describe the experience of Serisier’s paintings have drawn analogies with the natural world around him. These experiences of new spaces, new lights, and new natural worlds heightened his senses and curiosity to explore the project that is his current exhibition.

Born in Australia in 1958, David Serisier has been committed to an abstract aesthetic for over twenty years. He has received numerous awards and scholarships, including the Australia Council Greene Street residency in New York. His work is represented in many significant public, corporate and private collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, New England Regional Art Museum, Charles Sturt University, Artbank and JP Morgan Chase Bank.

Until 3 June
DAVID SERISIER
TOWARDS THE WHITE BUFFALO
LIVERPOOL STREET GALLERY, SYDNEY
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KAOS IN KING STREET

February 19th, 2010 by Paul | No Comments | Filed in exhibition, news

Sneaky-Lc-copy-725940LUKE CAVALAN (aka Lc Beats) is a Sydney young aerosol artist, beat-boxer, claymation filmmaker and graduate of AFTRS (Australian Film, Television and Radio School). Thanks to sponsorship from 567 King graffiti art supply store in Newtown and Australian aerosol paint company Ironlak, he’s produced his second claymation, single frame stop-animation feature film KAOS IN KING STREET—20 minutes long, 12 months in the making and tackling a tough new legal regime confronting the local street art scene.

Kavlan has created claymation caricatures of well-known Sydney graffiti artists Teazer, Pnash, Phibs and Mystery—right down to their mini nike airmax—and built a storyline set in the streets of Newtown that looks at the effects on the urban landscape of the recently enacted anti-graffiti laws, which state any person in possession of a spray can be arrested. The artists have created miniature versions of their work for his miniature urban streets.

“I wanted the small scale sets to mirror the actual streets of Newtown”, Cavalan said, “so I invited the artists to create their signature work on a small scale.”

For some great images and information on his claymation process, check out his blog here. And below is the teaser for the film, which will be launched at 6 March, 6-10pm at the contemporary art space—AT THE VANISHING POINT—565 King Street Newtown, Sydney.

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