Gallery 9 is delighted to present works by Mac Mansfield in his solo exhibition Long days of bad ideas, says the silence. We welcome you to join us in celebrating the opening reception and meet the artist on Wednesday April 10, from 6–8pm at Gallery 9.
Mac Mansfield's practice within painting is primarily focused on the use of gesture, colour and form to build pictorial space. There is a particular interest in the way this can navigate paths through two dimensional space or create resting places for the eye like a kind of visual furniture. Mac has an affinity for the line 'and various ways to tie rope' that Lou Reed eventually removed from the song Wild Child, feeling that if recontextualised it could express the poetics of this process.
Working at a reduced scale than what would be typical for this ward of non-objective painting, an attempt to avoid the ostentatiousness of abstraction is made. Parallel forms and inquiries into certain colour palettes become visible when multiple smaller paintings are combined in the process of installation.
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