“Peripheral Visions: Contemporary Art from Australia” Exhibition
Garis & Hahn
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This exhibition showcases the most exciting artists from Australia’s contemporary art scene.
The works in Peripheral Visions will provide a tangential narrative for Australian art, which is all-too routinely associated with landscape painting. Australian-born curator, Marissa Bateman discusses the exhibition’s intention and focus:
“Peripheral Visions” carries multiple meanings and resonances. Most immediately it refers to Australia’s peripheral positioning within the international art market, of which New York is the epicenter. With London’s art powerhouses Saatchi Gallery and the Royal Academy both staging surveys of Australian art in the next eighteen months, it seemed fitting to start this international engagement with the exceptional artistic talent emerging from Australia in the partly Australian-run New York gallery, Garis & Hahn.”
Each artist was selected for their unique mark making processes with peripheral materials such as Plasticine and LEGO and are all unified by the occasion of the exhibition which marks the first time each artist will exhibit in New York – an astounding fact given that three of the artists (Vernon Ah Kee, Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro) have exhibited at the world’s most prestigious contemporary art event, the Venice Biennale.
[Image: Liam Benson “Santa” (2013) Pigment in ink on cotton rag paper, Edition of 5 + 2 AP’s, 59.1 x 59.1in.]
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Schedule
from May 07, 2013 to June 14, 2013
Phoebe Rathmell performance: May 15, 2013 | 4:30PM – 8:30PM
Opening Reception on 2013-05-07 from 18:00 to 20:00