Abstract Salon, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery ( Curated by Langford 120)

Abstract Salon, Stephen McLaughlan Gallery ( Curated by Langford 120)

October 23 – November 9

Opening: Saturday, October 26, 2-4pm

Location: Stephen McLaughlan Gallery
Address: Level 8, Room 16, Nicholas Building 37, Swanston Street, Melbourne, Australia
Hours: Wednesday to Friday 1pm-5pm
Saturday 11am-5pm & by appointment Phone: 0407 317 323
Email:st73599@bigpond.net.au
Web:https://www.stephenmclaughlangallery.com.au/

Curated by Langford 120 Gallery  (Wilma Tabacco and Irene Barberis) 

Wave, 2019, mixed media on canvas, 58.5cm H x 41cm W ( framed)

Statement:  The white form in the bottom right of ‘Wave’ pushes upward and pushes and curves into the open passages.  There is a vulnerability in the white, but also strength and the curve is balanced by the conflicting warm-cool areas.

This series of work that relates to concepts ‘Where the Sea meets the Sand’ and explores underlying underling suspension, structure and fluid forms. Like a tide,  undercurrents, formal constructs  and rhythmical lines dissolve and change from  positive to negative space. These abstract works seek to capture a sense of openness and infinity. Forms are architectonic, but informal accidents and textures are found with line, and Tachist approaches. This exhibition has a limited blue colour range with pockets of yellow, black, white and ochre.  Some work has warm pockets of colour that contrasts against the cool and white passages and are associated with feelings that relate to submerging, flesh and the impact of the ocean on the body. This body of work  seeks to capture rhythms that are evoked from the sea - from sea spray, to a sense of floating. There is reference to  breath, stillness, grace and structural strength. 



Artists

Liliana Barbieri
Irene Barberis
Angelo Bellobono
Anna Caione
Wayne Conduit
Adrian Corke
Sarah Duyshart
Phil Edwards
Gracie Edwards
Jennifer Goodman
Fiona Halse
Joseph De Luitiis
Janet Passehl
Susie Leahy Raleigh
Fran van Riemsdyk
Theo Strasser
Wilma Tabacco
Sarah Tomasetti
Stephen Wickham
Anne Wilson