LOUISE ZHANG / ARCHIVE SPACE PRESENTS INVESTIBLE CONTEMPORARY ART ANNUAL FUNDRAISER

Image: Louise Zhang; GHOST GLAZER DREAM EATER, 2013, acrylic, oil, enamel and resin on birch wood, 50 x 50cm

The excellent Artist Run Initiative, Archive_, will host its second Investible Contemporary Art Annual fundraiser - ICAA2014: Take Home Archive - on Monday 22 December, where guests will be able to place a silent bid on artworks by more than 30 emerging artists, including Artereal artist Louise Zhang.

Louise Zhang's practice is informed by an ongoing fascination with the thin divide that separates the 'monstrous' from the 'cute', using the form of the 'blob' as a vehicle for expressions and explorations. This August, she was part of joint exhibition SUGARCOATED REALNESS with Terrence Combos at Archive_ and will be part of PAINT15, a group exhibition at Artereal Gallery in May 2015.

As part of Take Home Archive, Zhang joins a host of other artists, including 110% (Kieran Bryant, Beth Dillon & Lachlan Herd), Connie Anthes, Jess Bradford, Sophie Clague, Chanelle Collier, Terrence Combos, Jack Condon, Justin Cooper, Katherine Corcoran, Kathryn Cowen, Tamara Elkins, Rebecca Gallo, Max Gosling, David Greenhalgh, Hana Hoogedeure, Biljana Jancic, Rebecca Karageorgos, Mason Kimber, Amber Koroluk-Stephenson, Gillian Lavery, David Manley, Tom Mason, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, Nadia Odlum, Jason Phu, Madeleine Preston, Alex Pye, Chris Ross, Lisa Sammut, Jim Shirlaw, Sasanki Tennakoon, Jack Stahel, Kai Wasikowski, Angela Welyczko, Joe Wilson and more to be announced.

ARCHIVE_ ICAA2014: Take Home Archive

Monday 22 December 2014, 6PM

6.00-9.00PM

5 Eliza Street, Newtown 

LOUISE ZHANG + TERRENCE COMBOS / ARCHIVE SPACE

Louise Zhang_HURLY BURLY_2014_Acrylic and oil on birch wood_30cm diameter 

Louise Zhang is currently exhibiting new works as part of a joint exhibition, entitled Sugarcoated Realness, with Sydney-based artist Terrence Combos at Archive Space.

"Primarily through the lens of painting, Combos and Zhang manufacture constructed camouflages that conflate both the jovial and the unsettling. Colour, form and materiality are the basis of an elaborate ruse that conjures the essence of playfulness while addressing issues of otherness, grotesqueness, incompetence and self-deprecation." 

Sugarcoated Realness runs until 23 August 2014 at Archive Space in Newtown.