Utopain Slumps
Exhibition
Utopian Slumps presents 'the edge of the line' exhibition
Dates
Friday 23rd October - Saturday 7th November 2009
Venue
Utopian Slumps
5/25 Easy Street Collingwood VIC 3066
Gallery hours Wed to Sat 12 - 6pm
Website: Utopian Slumps
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the edge of the line
From drawing the line to toeing it, the edge of the line will tease and tempt the edge of meaning with investigations into social and conceptual boundaries, the limits of drawing, and alternative scripts, all the while exploring the seemingly simple line with its indeterminable edge.
Benjamin Sheppard, exhibition curator & exhibiting artist
Matthew Shannon, exhibiting artist
Aaron Carter, exhibiting artist
James Kenyon, exhibiting artist
Benjamin Sheppard, exhibition curator & exhibiting artist
Matthew Shannon, exhibiting artist
Aaron Carter, exhibiting artist
James Kenyon, exhibiting artist
Artists
Benjamin Sheppard’s work will project into the foyer space from the internal wall and lead the viewer into the main gallery space, spearing through the architecture whilst being supported by it.
The lineal quality of Sheppard’s work will lead the eye across to the florid assemblage of black extension lead in Mathew Shannon’s work. Swirling with an intrinsic, but unexplainable energy, Shannon’s work posits itself as a conduit of suggested energy, made apparent by its active posture as it actively supplies power to the back-lit mirrors by Aaron Carter further down the gallery.
The fluid motion of Shannon’s work will juxtapose against the more ordered meanderings of James Kenyon’s drawings and laser-cut wall sculpture assemblages. The line seeming to be ordered by an Other force or entity in each artist’s work.
The sweeping lines of Kenyon’s work will lead towards the back of the main gallery to the more cosmic spatial play of Aaron Carter’s back-lit mirror works which will hang from the ceiling structure with the power cords speaking directly to the cord assemblage of Shannon’s work described above.
This ensemble of artists will surely amaze and amuse with a thorough and diverse display of carefully manufactured works that will excite the thinkers and the dreamers among us whilst considering and ensuring the diversity of the exhibition experience.
The lineal quality of Sheppard’s work will lead the eye across to the florid assemblage of black extension lead in Mathew Shannon’s work. Swirling with an intrinsic, but unexplainable energy, Shannon’s work posits itself as a conduit of suggested energy, made apparent by its active posture as it actively supplies power to the back-lit mirrors by Aaron Carter further down the gallery.
The fluid motion of Shannon’s work will juxtapose against the more ordered meanderings of James Kenyon’s drawings and laser-cut wall sculpture assemblages. The line seeming to be ordered by an Other force or entity in each artist’s work.
The sweeping lines of Kenyon’s work will lead towards the back of the main gallery to the more cosmic spatial play of Aaron Carter’s back-lit mirror works which will hang from the ceiling structure with the power cords speaking directly to the cord assemblage of Shannon’s work described above.
This ensemble of artists will surely amaze and amuse with a thorough and diverse display of carefully manufactured works that will excite the thinkers and the dreamers among us whilst considering and ensuring the diversity of the exhibition experience.
