Max Dawn Gallery

MARCH 6 to 27 2010

2010-02-15T16:15:00.004+10:30

March 6 to 27th
Robert Bader, Karen Paris, Sam Evans, Ruben H Bermudez
Opening Night Sat 6th March 6 to 8pm

Robert Bader (NSW)

“I have worked in a non-objective abstractionist style for over twenty years where my work has primarily been concerned with Constructivist and Bauhaus philosophies.
I am increasingly investigating the integration of nature and the freedom it allows, with the pure essence of form and structure. The act of painting on a large canvas fixed to a wall allows physical communication between the scale of the artist’s movement and the scale of work being produced. This in itself is conducive to a freedom I have not experienced for twenty years.” Robert Bader

Palaeolithic DNA Pigment ink & acrylic paint on 310 gsm ‘hahnemuhle paper 85cm x 110cm

Karen Paris(SA)

“Bubbles, temporal and beautiful, mysterious and nostalgic, gather like old friends and float like free spirits. A medium of change they are a new realm yet still united with the old, re-creating the space they inhabit, capturing it, a moment in time, a tangible space. Through photography I explore this space, looking into it and through it, seeing what was before to the moment that shapes what is yet to be”. Karen Paris

Now and Then C type Photograph

Sam Evans (SA)

'Drawing for me is like falling asleep and dreaming a good dream, then waking to find my hands are cramped and I have a sore neck. Recently, I sat down with my pops, and showed him some of my work. He said to me, ‘why don't you draw a cat, or a dog?’ But being the infinite soul that I am, and feeling that he had missed my genius, I replied, ‘Really who needs another cat and dog!? I want to create things that DON'T exist yet!’
Sam Evans

Sketch 24 ink on DL envelope

Rubén H Bermudez (SPAIN)

Rubén photographs fiction in which the spectator can see themselves reflected. Rubén’s characters are out of place, out of position, belong to the city but they are in a field, dressed for a special occasion they hope for, in the middle of a dark earth. Night falls. The landscape becomes the scene. A woman in black, on her knees scoops earth between her fingers. Is she hopeless or adoring? Mourning the barren Earth or suited to the night that celebrates an encounter with mother earth? The sky becomes cloudy and a storm looms.

Text by Beatriz Martínez

Lovers of the Arctic Circle C type Photograph

2010 Summer Exhibition Feb 6 to 27

2010-01-08T13:59:00.003+10:30

Joanna Poulson

Rossanne Pellegrino

Eleanor Zecchin

Jo Kerlogue

Nico Petho
VIDEO by Naomi Oliver

Opening Sat 6th Feb 2010

Joanna Poulson Sally Goes Hunting oil on canvas 101x76cm

Rossanne Pellegrino London Through a Different Lens C type Photograph

Eleanor Zecchin Parental Watch oil on canvas 100x100cm

Jo Kerlogue Matron Slone and Terrance in...Patterns of Behaviour laminated digital print 30x30cm

Nico Pethos Lawn Chair

Naomi Oliver Flight before Flight Video Still

Jo Kerlogue, masquerading as alter-ego Nonchalant Sally and armed with the tools of parody and a 2b pencil, will re-assess received wisdom and dominant Australian culture through the satirical vehicle of the illustration montage. ‘The Death of Molly Jones’ illustration series, inspired by eighties soap A Country Practice is a part camp, part punk review of the Australian contemporary condition. Kerlogue illustrates for a variety of formats including mobile phone, large scale digital projection, packaging, fabric printing, illustration performance, the World Wide Web as well as the traditional gallery setting.

Throughout her imagery Rossanne Pellegrino explores the notion of place, memory and our emotional connection to our surroundings. Utilizing various photographic techniques, the artist aims to create a memory on paper effect; to translate images from one’s memory to a physical medium for audiences to experience. Her surreal and dreamlike imagery aim to evoke feelings of nostalgia and curiosity within the observer, leaving one to question where such scenes exist, how they were discovered and perhaps even reminding them of a time and place within their own memory. The artist also explores the impact of human emotion, imagination and the passing of time on our ability to record places of our past.

Eleanor Zecchin’s paintings explore the idea that the everyday may be a catalyst for experiencing the sublime. Within the paintings I seek to capture moments in my daily life and present not only the physical subject matter but also the emotional environment that relates to each moment.

In 2009, Joanna focused her painting tonal realist still life compositions, utilizing inherited objects which included pristine porcelains, vintage fabrics, an old wind vane and old kitchen tins. Her new paintings now also explore the silhouette of objects with the silhouette containing other related objects. In doing so, Joanna is creating new objects through oil on canvas - a dog made of leaves, a dolls head made of buttons and porcelain figurine made of fabric. For all these new objects, Joanna also shares with the viewer paintings of the original source objects and in effect answers some of the questions the viewer has about the silhouette paintings.

Naomi Oliver’s video works centre on bodily / psychic sensation – in particular that familiar feeling of flying during the dream-state. If I can fly when I’m asleep, I can fly when I am awake, and Flight before Flight play on the term ‘flight’ in a number of ways in addition to physical flight: imagination, voyage, departure, and escape.

Eleanor Zecchin Flying Lark.

Shota Kawahara

2009-12-01T17:21:00.006+10:30

December 5 to 19 2009

Opening Night 7 to 9pm Sat 5th December

Image: Babble Maze acrylic on canvas 102x72cm

Shota's paintings are inspired by nature and his life as a travelling artist. Shota has been attending residencies and exhibiting in Australia and New Zealand, with a trip to Samoa in between. His abstract landscapes are vibrant, highly worked in colourful detail and unique.

"When we make art we communicate with ourselves alot. It is an intense conversation. It happens between our conscious and unconscious. Then we put our own idea, story and philosophy on canvas or some other material. Art is a means of visualizing ones philosophy" Shota Kawahara

Butterfly Valley acrylic on canvas 102x72cm

NORTHEY/ ROEDEL

INTERFERENCE

5 to 19 December VIDEO ROOM

Video & Sound Work

video still Interference v65

Sam Songalio Paintings about Techno AND Sarah Grillo Natural Reality

2009-11-01T00:30:00.008+10:30

Dual Pitch 122x227cm acrylic on canvas

Fire Track 152x152cm acrylic on canvas

What About Now 84x84cm acrylic on canvas

Sarah Grillo

Natural Reality

7 to 21 November

Mezzanine Gallery

20x20cm Giclee Print on German etching paper

TAKESHI IUE

DESIGN

Nov 7 to Dec 19

Black Gallery Bench MDF Polyurethane

http://www.takeshiiue.com/

THE DEVIL

2009-10-02T13:33:00.035+09:30

Max Dawn Presents
The Devil
10 to 24 October 09

Featuring art works by
james dodd, harmony nicholas, driller jet armstrong, tom phillips, tai spruyt, sarah grillo, ruben h bermudez, deidre but husaim, michaelgarrett, nick thompson, naomi oliver, luku and roedel/northey.
image : Tom Phillips Ends of Days 156x136cm oil on canvas

47 Phillips Street Thebarton SA
0882347625

Tai Spruyt Christadelphia C type photograph 50x50cm

Naomi Oliver Productivity Loop video still

Roedel/Northey Hail Satan (Tassie Devil Wheel) video still

Ruben H Bermudez Lovers of the Arctic Circle C type Photograph 70x100cm

Luku Kukukukukuku Luku's Lakeside Lucifer Love-in

Deidre But-Husaim Peter Oil on Linen 122x112cm

Michael Garrett Lucifers Lounge Resin coated Cow Bones

James Dodd Ram Skulls acyrlic on board

Gallery installation, But-Husaim, Dodd and Garrett.

Chris Tamm Hail Cthulhu 40x45cm mixed media on board

Sarah Grillo Devil Bride C type photograph 30x40cm

I Used to be an Artist

2009-09-07T15:19:00.002+09:30

Driller Jet Armstrong
New Daubist Works
Max Dawn Gallery

September 4 to 26 09

“Daubism is based upon individual limitless freedom.
It is through unfettered freedom that great discoveries
are made. Music sampling is the example of that.
Whole new doors are opened.In the 21st century
Daubism exists everywhere you look and yet ironically
Daubist art is entirely unique.”Driller Jet Armstrong 09

“Daubism began like a 14 yr old child in a dysfunctional
family. It was angry, it had Punk attitude and it was raw.
The more I experimented with this modus operandi the
more refined and beautiful it became. The ways in which
a painting can be changed are virtually endless and
along the way I’ve made some interesting discoveries.”
Driller Jet Armstrong 09

JUST IS

2009-08-08T16:18:00.004+09:30

Shaw Hendry and Rachel McElwee

SALA Festival August 09
Just is
Beverly Southcott
Sera Wateres
Shaw Hendry (image)
Ed James
Rachel McElwee

This exhibition describes moments of otherness within the daily patterns of our lives. The artists’ new, experimental works reference the social and human condition mainly within the urban environment. It is about the almost unseen justices and injustices, ‘small’ heroics acts, cultural influences and the daily communications with others that often go unnoticed, unsaid or discounted within the every day.

Shaw Hendry’s recent installation works have the ability to innately transcend the ordinary into some thing else of joyful hope and delight. There is a strong element of play in the Provisional objects installation which allows for emotional observation and interaction by the viewer. This work makes reference to home-made toys. The Hermano Fan Club installation of hand painted ukuleles is a playful, yet contemplative piece that relates to fandom and notions of authenticity. With references to folk art, memorabilia, and artefacts of contemporary celebrity that are then enshrined, re-adorned for display by their fans. (Image above)

Edward James’s photographic images are often re-worked from low resolution imagery using mobile phones. When enlarged, these photos bring new meaning and philosophical analysis of the common usage of digital communications systems. James’s further exploration of the fragile veneer of ‘acceptable’ everyday behaviour is evident in the Fuse photo media series. The gaff tape over the face symbolizes societal prejudices that tolerate only seemingly nice behaviour and where other behaviours by people that are not considered ‘the norm’ are then ostracized by others.

Rachel Mc Elwee’s skilful photography and installation works in I never promised you a rose garden reflect the demands of living in ‘the burbs’ and ‘fighting’ drought conditions by undertaking DIY make overs to the gardens. Smothered with unnatural products the ‘consumer’ landscape becomes alive again with bright, colourful natural enhancements.

Mc Elwee’s works can be seen as humorous and yet are serious depictions of our need to humanize our urban environments according to social conditioning and peer pressures.

Sera Waters’ stitched cushions are timely and conceptual. With undertones of black humour they describe ‘small acts’ of discomfort in the seemingly undisturbed fabric of suburban living. These pieces map new ventures into the fabrication of disastrous drama. Each is a threatening scenario; terrifyingly awesome bodies of water, frozen conditions and fierce gales with electrical lashes, made squishy, softened and covered in stitches, lace, sequins and beads. Harrowing circumstances either human-made or natural disasters (or a mix of both), or internal tumult, are featured on these soft, ‘comfortable’ cushions.

Tsunami by Sera Waters

Beverley Southcott’s photo imagery describes where perception can change one’s thoughts from discomfort to hope that occur in transitional events such as re-locating to a new interstate city to live. The Day by Day photo media series were taken through two small holes, punched on paper thus capturing circular portals to the new home space. Creating that sense of not quite participating and feeling slightly apart from the 'world around'. During this settling in time, the unfamiliar becomes familiar and that ‘silver lining’ appears again as seen in the ready made, beige curtain drop that accompanies the photographs.

Max Dawn The First Show

2009-03-08T16:43:00.013+10:30

James Dodd Tom Phillips James Cochran Gareth Brown
Tegan Empson Matt Gray

JAMES DODD

Dumped Car with Stolen Wheels acrylic on canvas 61x46cm

Stolen Wheels Study 1 acrylic on canvas 61x46cm

2 Besa Block acrylic on MDF 30x43cm

TOM PHILLIPS

Two Boys oil on canvas 136x156cm

Skater Boy oil on canvas 78x136cm

Lost in the Suburbs oil on canvas 136x166cm

JAMES COCHRAN

Wild at Heart acrylic lacquer on canvas 120x152cm

City Forms acrylic lacquer on canvas 120x163cm

Becoming acrylic on canvas 80x110cm

TEGAN EMPSON

Rockerfella hand sculpted glass 26cm h

Gareth Brown

Gareth Brown Design Credenza

MATT GRAY

Matt Gray super 8 video still

new works by Tom Phillips 2010