Painting between representation and
abstraction
3-24 December
2010
Gallery open: Thur-Sun,
12-6pm
Private View: Thur, 2 Dec,
6-9pm
Henny Acloque, Phillip Allen, Tim Bailey, Nathan
Barlex, Mike Bartlett, Alice Browne, Lindsey Bull, Nick Carrick, Michelle
Charles, Clem Crosby, Theo Cuff, Kaye Donachie, Sarah Douglas, Sarah Dwyer,
Andrew Graves, Paul Housley, Thomas Hylander, Hannah Knox, Laura Lancaster,
Robert Lang, Sarah Lederman, Eleanor Moreton, Mali Morris, Alex Gene Morrison,
Nadia Mulder, Jill Mulleady, Mahali [UTF-8?]O’Hare, Scott [UTF-8?]O’Rourke,
Joanna Pawlowska, Joanna Phelps, Benjamin Senior, Shaan Syed, Zack Thorne, Gavin
Toye, Helen Turner, Claire Undy, David Webb, Robert Welch, Andy Wicks, Jo
Wilmot.
Fade Away is the first in an ongoing series
of exhibitions at Transition with guest curators focusing on the diversity of
contemporary painting and exploring the ways in which artists are engaged with
it.
Fade Away, which is curated by Alli Sharma,
with an accompanying text by Barry Schwabsky, features paintings that oscillate
between representation and abstraction. With widely diverse references and
subject matter, they all share a strong material presence. Whatever the creative
enquiry, they make you think about paint and the act of
painting.
Some of the Fade Away artists work
directly from the perceptible world; others use the representational as a point
of departure into the abstract, or conversely, explore the abstract, which
reveals itself as subject. The dialogue between surface and illusion,
representation and abstraction, performs a paradoxical balancing act where
surfaces are brushed, scored, erased, layered, revealed, dripped and collapsed.
Compositions teeter on the verge of illegibility where images emerge and fade
away.
