NOLA DIAMANTOPOULOS / TRANSMISSION

Nola Diamantopoulos will be exhibiting as part of Transmission – a group exhibition of artwork by artists including Susan Baird, Ian Thomas and Selina McGrath.

The exhibition opens on Wednesday 4^th September, 6-8pm at 124 Marion St, Leichhardt.

ANNE MACDONALD / BOWNESS PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE FINALIST

Anne Macdonald_Party 2_2013_Fine art ink-jet print_110 x 160cm

The Bowness Photography Prize has quickly become one of Australia's most important photography prizes and one the most open and unrestricted prizes for photography. Established in 2006, The Bowness Prize serves to celebrate and promote excellence in both established and emerging photographers. This year’s judging panel includes artist Brook Andrew, The Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Senior Curator Judy Annear, and Monash Gallery of Art Director Shaune Lakin.

Artereal artist Anne MacDonald has been sellected as one of forty-six finalists for the prize from a total of 562 entries, the largest number in the history of The Bowness Prize. She has been selected for her above work titled Party 2 from her recent series Party.

Anne MacDonald endeavours to represent the unrepresentable – death itself. Her photographic series and installations are symbolic distillations of death, eliciting the presence of beauty in objects reminiscent of the body and mortality. A sense of emptiness, of stillness, of silence and fragility and loss pervades Anne MacDonald’s poignant images of the aftermath of a children’s birthday party, exploring the tragedy of transient childhood and youth.

All finalists pieces will exhibit at the Monash Gallery of Art from Friday 4 October - Sunday 3 November 2013. The Winner of the Bowness Photography Prize will be announced the evening prior to the opening on Thursday 3 October.

We wish Anne the best of luck and congratulate her on such a magnificent achievement.

MICHAEL STANIAK @ BLOCK PROJECTS

Michael Staniak_SO/IMG_526, 2013_acrylic and casting compound on board, steel frame_90 x 60 cm_Image courtesy of the Artist and Block Projects.

Michael Staniak is currently exhibiting a new body of work entitled STANDARD OUTPUT at Block Projects in Melbourne. The exhibiiton runs from 20 August - 14 September 2013 with the exhibition opening taking place on Saturday 24 August from 2-5pm.

"In computer programming, standard streams are preconnected input and output channels between a computer program and its environment (typically a text terminal) when it begins execution. The three I/O connections are called standard input (stdin), standard output (stdout) and standard error (stderr)[...] Standard output is the stream where a program writes its output data." - Wikipedia

Although these terms are no longer used in today's computer graphic user interface, the process is quite similar. As a user we no longer need to know code, however we input data via keyboard, mouse or touch pad, and the resulting output is displayed instantly on the screen. Using standard graphic programs like Photoshop, MS Paint and Google Sketchup and the distributive abilities of social media, our visual ideas are easily digitally illustrated, uploaded and shared globally via like-minded individuals and peer groups. The tropes now associated in computer graphics, although at times a somewhat generic aesthetic, have become commonplace. As our connections with digital media and screen technology become more fluid, so too does the flow of digital information back into our analogue environment. Is it a surprise then that more and more of these digital tropes are being repeated in an almost obsessive manner and are filtering into the language of painting?

With this in mind, the exhibition STANDARD OUTPUT not only explores some of these aesthetic shifts in painting that resemble a pseudo-modernist approach to process and form, but also examines this visually repetitious byproduct of social media, which at once could be read as a trending phenomenon or the beginning of a new "ism", something missing in contemporary art for the last decade. (Michael Staniak, Artist Statement, 2013)

Block Projects is located at 79 Stephenson Street, Cremorne, 3121 VIC Australia.

Michael is also currently working on a new body of works which we will be exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary 2013 as part of the Artereal Gallery stand.

CLAUDE JONES / ANIMALISED

Claude Jones_Monkey Brains_2011_mixed media on canvas_138.5 x 128.5cm

Curated by Cassandra Lawrie, Animalised is an exhibition which explores the use of the animal motif in contemporary Australian Art. The Exhibition is part of the Hungry for Art Festival at The See Street Gallery at Sydney Gallery School in Meadowbank TAFE. Featured artists include Todd Fuller, James Guppy, Stephen Hall, Madeleine Hayes, Rew Hanks and of course Artereal artist Claude Jones.

The exhibition will be showing from THURSDAY 15 AUGUST 2013 - SATURDAY 7 SEPTEMBER 2013

Claude Jones is exhibiting a collection of seven new works, ranging from  drawing and collage to scuplture. Whilst the subject matter may seem disturbing, Claude employ's soft colours and decorative elements that belie the sinister narrative content of the work.
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"Our instinctive childhood love of animals is endorsed in illustrated children’s books, movies, stories, toys and domestic pets yet whilst our warm affection for animals is fostered, our taste for animal products is simultaneously cultivated." - Claude Jones, 2013.

Animalised is an exciting exhibition featuring a variety of talented and unique artists including Claude's provocative and insightful works.

The See Street Gallery hours: 

Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 4pm

Saturday 31 August and Sunday 1 September 11am - 5pm

GARY DEIRMENDJIAN / MICROVIDS

Gary Deirmendjian is currently exhibiting MICROVIDS at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery. MICROVIDS is an entire single channel video exhibition kit in a box, for viewing on smart devices with internet access, such as mobile phones or tablets.

dLux MediaArts have produced a unique touring exhibition consisting of a catalogue and a set of clear acrylic slides, each inscribed with the details and QR code of one of Gary’s 64 MICROVIDS that exist on YouTube.

It is a flexible exhibition, where galleries are able to curate their own vision and where viewers are free to engage with the works in their own time with their own smart device, or those supplied by the exhibition.

MICROVIDS makes gallery walls permeable and creates opportunities for dialogue about what constitutes an exhibition and artworks. This exhibition can be the source of an ongoing and varied program with no time limitations.

Hervey Bay Regional Gallery have in a novel way created a relaxed lounge environment to host the exhibition, where the kit and smart tablets with internet access are centrally placed on a coffee table. Visitors may select a slide take a tablet or use their own device to scan the QR code and watch the respective MICROVID.

"as an artist it is for me essential to find means to connect directly with a broader public one-to-one free of any obligation mediation or justification. this preferably in more public and openly shared space. i have come to appreciate youtube as one such place." - Gary Deirmendjian

Gary Deirmendjian’s MICROVIDS are fragmented snapshots of the contemporary urban environment and our existence within it. Captured typically on a mobile phone (by the hundreds) and over time a few being edited towards resolved works, these short videos utilise lo‐fi technology to document small moments in daily life. Completely reliant on serendipity and the caprices of the city, the works are unplanned and spontaneous urban portraits that capture the exquisite pain and beauty underpinning the human condition.

MICROVIDS will be on display at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery until 8 September, 2013. 

ANNA CAREY INTERVIEWED ON THE SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY BLOG...

Anna Carey was recently interviewed for the Sydney Contemporary blog. Read the full interview here.

Anna's work will be exhibited at Sydney Contemporary this September as part of Artereal Gallery's stand. For further information on Sydney Contemporary click here. We hope to see you at the fair!

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLOW / WITH A TRACE: PHOTOGRAPHS OF ABSENCE

Christopher Bucklow_Guest 6:34pm_1995_cibachrome print_99.38 x 75.25cm

With a Trace: Photographs of Absence is a group exhibition currently showing at the Akron Art Museum, Ohio, U.S.A.

Showcasing works by Christopher Bucklow, Margaret De Patta, Adam Fuss, Alison Rossiter, Minor White, and Hiroshi Sugimoto, the images in the exhibition bear traces of human presence, the transmission of energy, atmospheric phenomena and the movement of light. 

Using a wide range of processes to render their enigmatic subjects, the artists demonstrate the versatility of non-digital photography in depicting such intangibles as memory, dreams and emotion, ospheric phenomena, and experiments with light.

Christopher Bucklow's work, Guest 6:34pm, is created with exactly 25,000 pinholes, in which sunlight is used to expose the shadow of his friend onto photographic paper. Therefore, light is the medium, subject and means in the portrait, and each spot of light is a tiny image of the sun.

With a Trace: Photographs of Absence runs until 26 January 2014.

www.akronartmuseum.org

FULL COURT PRESS OPENS TONIGHT!

Julian Meagher_Hoop Dreams_2013_oil on linen_53 x 43cm_

Artwork courtesy of the Artist and Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney

Join us tonight for our first exhibition curated by a member of our new Curatorial Advisory Board! 'Full Court Press', curated by Sebastian Goldspink, is a group exhibition based on the intersection of Basketball and Contemporary Art. Each of the artists in the exhibition has a history of creating works involved with basketball or a direct personal passion for the sport.

Featuring work by: Tully Arnot, Nicole Breedon, Tristan Chant, Will Cooke, Hamishi, Biljana Jancic, Philjames, Julian Meagher, Danny Morse, Sarah Oxenham and Mark Whalen.

Tonight from 6-8pm.

 

FULL COURT PRESS / GROUP EXHIBITION

Philjames_Flight School #3_2013_oil on board_43 x 31cm

Full Court Press is a group exhibition based on the intersection of Basketball and Contemporary Art. Each of the artists in the exhibition has a history of creating works involved with basketball or a direct personal passion for the sport. 

The title comes from a defensive basketball tactic called a ‘full court press’ in which the defense applies man-to-man or zone defense to pressure the offensive team the entire length of the court before and after the inbound pass. 

Curated by Sebastian Goldspink, Full Court Press explores themes of masculinity and US cultural imperialism and status anxiety related to material acquisition of foreign apparel and culture.

Artists in the exhibition include: Tully Arnot, Nicole Breedon, Tristan Chant, Will Cooke, Hamishi, Biljana Jancic, Philjames, Julian Meagher, Danny Morse, Sarah Oxenham and Mark Whalen.

Full Court Press in the Media and on the Web:

Two Thousand

Art Almanac
Concrete Playground
Big Lamington
Time Out 
The Art Life

FBi radio interview with Sebastian Goldspink and Julian Meagher