STROBED
a calendar for emerging artist exhibition openings in sydney + a few exhibition reviews
Isla de las Munecas [Storm Gallery]
when: Opening night Monday 2 August 7 – 10:30pm.
cost: Free.
where: Storm Gallery, 65-67 Foveaux Street, Surry Hills.
From Storm:
In 2007 photographer David Maurice Smith’s exploratory travels of Mexico City led him to a secret landscape of rural canals and jungled canopy where a dark world awaited: the Isla de las Munecas, the Island of the Dolls.
Legend states that many years ago a peasant farmer named Don Julian sought to appease the spirit of a young girl that tragically drowned in the dark waters of a nearby canal by presenting the spirit with an offering… a child’s doll.
The appeasement worked, however the spirits appetite for dolls grew and Julian became forced to scour the countryside for more and more offerings. He became obsessed with the collection of the figures, dedicating all of his limited resources to growing the bizarre collection until his death.
As a disturbing testament to both the spirit of a young girl and the commitment of a god fearing man, a morbid yet beautiful monument of literally thousands of dolls in various states of decay and infestation remain.
A Cat Goes Kayaking [Sheffer]
when: Tuesday 3 August 2010. 6pm-8pm.
cost: free.
where: Scheffer Gallery. 38 Lander St, Darlington.
Graphic Material [UTS]
when: Tuesday 3 August 2010. 6pm-8pm.
cost: free.
where: UTS Gallery. L4 702 Harris St, Ultimo.
Jeremy Wood Meridians, GPS Drawing 2006, cotton print, 8.5 x 1.5m.GPS unit used to 'draw' 40-mile path across London. Text from Moby Dick: It is not down in any map; true places never are. Courtesy the artist.
Sabrina Raaf Grower. Robot drawing grass in response to CO2 levels in the room. Courtesy the artist.
from UTS Gallery:
Driven by developments in digital fabrication, today’s graphic designers are utilising unconventional materials and technologies to push the boundaries of their discipline. From robotic drawing machines, spot-welded posters to visuals that grow over time, Graphic Material explores this freedom through new and innovative works by local and international designers.
The hybrid practices featured in the exhibition will attract audiences across contemporary design, art and technology fields and be further explored in the accompanying public program. The lines between design disciplines, so long conceptualised in terms of their material output, are becoming increasingly blurred. The exhibition is an exploration of graphic design when freed from the constraints of paper and ink.
Including work by
Toko
Collider
Frost* Design
Jürg Lehni
Mark Gowing
Bert Simons
Jeremy Wood
Sabrina Raaf
Aaron Seymour
Post Spectacular
Ian Stevenson
Trigger
Curated by Aaron Seymour
Key support provided by Formero and UTS Industrial Design Program with particular thanks to Industrial Design students Vanessa Hunt, Monica Pen and Morgan Thomas.
Art Revolt [Kudos]
when: Tuesday 3 August 5pm-730pm. Exhibition continues till August 14 2010.
cost: free
where: Kudos Gallery. 6 Napier Street, Paddington.
From Kudos Gallery:
‘To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing’.
Join us at the opening 5-7.30pm Tuesday 3 August 2010
Live Performances! Vegan food and fresh coconuts for all!
Curated by Camilla Tulley
Artists:
Adrian Clement
Emma Davidson
Matt Format
Sebastian Goldspink
Michelle Hamer
Calvin Hill
Erland Howden
Huckleberry Spin and Viv
Chloe Hughes
Deborah Kelly
The Kingpins
Marianne Knoles
Sarah Langdon
Kai Lin
The Lurkers
Norrie mAy-welby
Kristine McCarroll
Al Poulet
David Quoy
Che Ritz
Matte Rochford
Nicola Walkerden
Eat Your Art – Sensation Series: Taste [PolyMorph Art Gallery]
when: Opening night Tuesday 3 August 2010, from 7:30 – 9pm. Exhibition continues until Sunday August 29 2010.
cost: Free.
where: PolyMorph Art Gallery, 7/82 Enmore Road, Newtown.
From PolyMorph Art Gallery:
Our sense of Taste can be interpreted in many different ways- it relates not only to what we sense with our tongue but also to our aesthetic tastes in art, decorating, music and people. In this way taste is really about what we consume on many different levels, the clothes we wear and the art we buy.
We as a people, a culture and a community constantly consume, whether it be food, natural resources, land or last weeks Das Superpaper. Our world and community is based around contentions to do with consumption as it is the key to both our survival and our destruction. Debates rage on our use of earth’s resources and the fundamental pace of our consumption; consuming is an issue all of humanity has an opinion about.
Of course, our art reflects this. Postmodern Art has been defined as “pastiche” – blank parody, appropriation and conflation between high and low cultures is the logos for what art has supposedly “become”. Thus art is now an issue of consumption, as Brener’s graffiti of Malevich’s work and Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God so clearly express. We equate Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup with advertising, we buy copious cheap prints of Van Gogh and Mondrian; art celebrated for it “originality”. The endless consumption of old imagery to create new meaning has become a kind of cultural cannabalism- something that instead of drawing deeper understanding is concerned with pointing out a lack of meaning to begin with.
As the finale of Polymorph Art Gallery’s ‘Sensation Series’, ‘Eat Your Art’ will be a night of consumptive hedonistic excess. Work concerning the notion of appropriation and pastiche, that deals with rehashing images or logos, art as a consumable commodity, humanities consumption in general, and even art that is in fact edible will all be on display!
Artists Include:
Grace Kingston
Beth Dillon
Troy Hammerton
Caryn Griffin
Isaac Graves
Lleah Smith
Joseph Angert-Quilter
and many more…
Shannon Crees + Anthony Bartok + Justin Feuerring + Marie Larkin + Marcus Marritt +Rhianna Griffith [Global Gallery]
when: Opening night Wednesday 4 August 2010, 6-8pm. Exhibition continues until Sunday 15 August 2010.
cost: Free:
where: Global Gallery, 5 Comber Street, Paddington.
What a line up!!
We suggest you check out Global Gallery’s Website for details on all of the artists.
Shannon Crees’ Facebook Invite can be found here
