Garis & Hahn is pleased to announce “Peripheral Visions: Contemporary Art from Australia,” curated by Marissa Bateman.
Opening Reception: May 7, 2013 | 6PM - 8PM
Phoebe Rathmell performance: May 15, 2013 | 4:30PM – 8:30PM
This exhibition showcases the most exciting artists from Australia’s contemporary art scene. Artists include Australia’s Venice Biennale representatives Vernon Ah Kee and Claire Healy & Sean Corderio as well as Joel Beerden, Stephen Bird, Nicholas Folland, Dan McKewen, Amanda Marburg and Phoebe Rathmell.
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.
The dynamic dialogue within the exhibition escapes an overarching academic theme and expands on topics such as urban/popular culture, gender, identity and indigenous/personal history. The diverse and multifaceted work will communicate a picture of contemporary Australia that many international observers may not have seen.
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Image: Liam Benson, Santa, 2013, Pigment in ink on cotton rag paper, Edition of 5 + 2 AP’s, 150 x 150cm (59.1 x 59.1in)
