LOUISE ZHANG / SYDNEY PAINTING NOW

Image: Louise Zhang, THE URGENCY OF PHWOARR, 2014, acrylic, oil and enamel on canvas, 100 x 76.5cm

Artereal artist Louise Zhang has this month been selected for inclusion in the group show, SYDNEY PAINTING NOW, which opened on Wednesday night at MOP projects and Galerie pompom.

The show, which aims to present a cross-section of current painting practice in Sydney, was separated into two distinct parts. Hosted by MOP, part one included work selected by the MOP Projects committee and volunteer team, who each selected their favourite Sydney painter, culminating in work from nine different artists.

Selected for part one, Louise Zhang's work, 'THE URGENCY OF PHWOARR' joins work from other Sydney artists Jess Bradford, Matthew Busteed, Dale Frank, Belem Lett, Genevieve Felix Reynolds, Katie Williams, Paul Williams and Meng-Yu Yan.

Part two of the exhibition is held at Gallery pompom and includes a group of 13 represented and invited artists including: Ron Adams, Kylie Banyard, Lynne Barwick, Monika Behrens, Leo Coyte, Hayley Megan French, Rochelle Haley, Mason Kimber, Nana Ohnesorge, Samuel Quinteros, Nicola Smith, Phil Aston Williams and Christine Dean.

Sydney Painting Now is on until 7 December 2014.

HAYDEN FOWLER / INTRA-ACTION: MULTISPECIES BECOMINGS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE

Hayden Fowler_production still xiii_2013_colour pigment print on cotton rag art paper_54 x 75cm

Hayden Fowler is currently exhibiting as part of a curated exhibition Intra-action: Multispecies becomings in the Anthropocene which is showing at MOP until 28th July.

Curated by Eben Kirksey and Madeleine Boyd Art Exhibition for the 2013 Australian Animal Studies Group Conference at the University of Sydney, the exhibition includes work by artists such as: Janet Laurence,  Maria Fernanda Cardoso,  Louise Fowler-Smith, Hayden Fowler, Andre Brodyk, Yvette Watt, Elaine Gan, Tarsh Bates, Erna Lilje and Beatriz da Costa. 

"A multispecies zeitgeist is sweeping contemporary art worlds. Spinning this spirit in a new direction, this show will animate the critical theory of Karen Barad, a feminist who is rethinking the nature of matter itself. A multitude of creative agents, only some of whom are human, will gather at the show. Strange structures, purloined from the hives of honeybees, will appear alongside soap made with milk from a family of American Spotted Asses. Hairless rats, creatures humans have created to help cure cancer, will scamper alongside the ooze of slime molds.

This show features time-based, sculptural, installation and photographic works by leading Australian and North American artists engaging with multispecies entanglements and conceptual diffraction within new materialism."

For information on associated performances and events visit http://intraactionart.com