Adele Warner, Drew Holland, Maya Man (US), Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, Robert Schmitt, Wade Kelly
Filip Kostic (US), Mindy Seu (US), Omar Kholeif (UAE)
Neither Dream, Nor Delusion draws together a swathe of artists, writers and makers who’s practices revolve around the human experience of the Internet and the ways in which the navigation of this realm translate into visual expression. Included in the exhibition are works from Adele Warner, Drew Holland, Maya Man, Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, Robert Schmitt and Wade Kelly.
Adele Warner reflects upon ideas of the para-social, fame and its encompassing psychological effects through her painting ‘LATTER NIGHT’. Drew Holland presents a series of his solvent transfer assemblage pieces. Maya Man (US) is exhibiting her new body of work ‘(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes’ encompassing three prints, a browser based work and subsequent video.Three pieces have been selected from Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer’s ‘Fragile Fantasy’ collection of works. A newly commissioned animation piece by the Melbourne based Robert Schmitt will be the first time his works have been formally presented within a gallery context. Two large format paintings by Wade Kelly offer a humorous and cynical inner dialogue with their screen printed text contrasted by abstracted spray painting. Alongside the pieces on display, publications which heavily informed the rationale and thinking behind the themes of the show will be presented as tools to expand upon the viewing experience. Exhibition resource collaborators include Mindy Seu, Dr Omar Kholeif and Filip Kostic.
The exhibition’s title ‘Neither Dream, Nor Delusion’ alludes to the surreal and transcendental space in which the source material of the exhibition finds itself. A plane of para-social relationships, avatars, myth-making, contemporary merchants and transhumanism in an infinite expanse we navigate as ‘Internet Explorers’.
Curated by Jarryd Lynagh
China Heights Gallery
Signal
Anna Pogossova, Jarryd Lynagh, Mark Booth, Orson Heidrich, Patrick Cremin, Siena White.
Curated By Jarryd Lynagh & Orson Heidrich
Down Under Gallery
Bridging across installation, sculpture and expanded photography the show ‘Signal’ bases itself in the physical and the tangible, using it as a currency in contemporary practice. Curated by Jarryd Lynagh and Orson Heidrich, the show examines artists who have shifted away from their foundation in two-dimensional practices into working methods based in sculpture, multimedia and installation; with the genesis of the works being mainly rooted in painting and photographic practices. Succinct choices in materials draw upon frameworks of visual association with the language of materiality being used, in this instance, to create works of a post figurative nature. Connected either conceptually or physically to their former practice, processes of decision making and evolution, inevitably lead us to transitional forms which question the motives of such change and what is being sought at the intersection of artistic mediums.
Signal Presents: The Cube
Collaborators: Rosie Deacon, Aedan Lee, Lilac City, Nelson Earl, Nicholas Eckhardt and Bridget Stehli-Curnow
Supported by the City Of Sydney & Oxford Arts Factory.
Curated by Jarryd Lynagh & Orson Heidrich.
In response to building a site-specific annual public program for The Cube space at the Oxford Arts Factory, proposed was a balanced and diverse schedule of practitioners bridging across, installation, performance, photo media, sculpture, and painting. With consideration to the fact that Oxford Art Factory’s primary functions are being a live music venue and bar, the program offers curated art viewings that operate as a complimentary experience to these focuses. As a space situated between two bars and two live music stages, these elements will have an unavoidable influence on the relationship between the viewers and the installations, so a number of key themes were identified for the program as to best compliment, enhance and intrigue. Inter-activity, kineticism, scale and visual presence formed the foundational criteria for the proposed ideas and artists. The Cube created a participatory platform for artists to communicate and link audiences to creative ways of thinking, actively involving and stimulating the community of Darlinghurst and Sydney City.
Fact Or Feeling
Dean De Landre, Nicholas Eckhardt, Rachel Farlow, Callum Galletly, Scott Keim
Curated by Jarryd Lynagh
A work of art holds the potential to outline experiences of reality, tie them to a thought process and produce a definitive form. However, decision making and vast possibilities eventuate in a cyclical parade of illusory and ambiguous output to be consumed and then expelled once more.
Fact or Feeling synthesises the trajectory of personal experiences through systems of repetition, everyday occurrences, the surreal and an acknowledgement of the multiplicity of experience. The translation of energy, predominantly through painted media, imbues the works with the testimony of their maker, opening a passage way which simultaneously indulges the namesakes of this show as they converse ad infinitum. Focus is placed upon what lays between experience and its representation by drawing upon processes of association and reduction in search of their most potent qualities.