IN HOUSE presents salient ideas and current trends in the practice of individual artists associated with Anna Schwartz Gallery. Beginning each gallery year, commissioned and existing works are placed in a new context, animated through conversation between diverse materiality and approach.
From London, Berlin, New York and Melbourne, the inaugural _IN HOUSE _exhibits works by Oliver Beer, Angela de la Cruz, Emily Floyd, Jan Nelson, Rose Nolan, David Noonan, Chiharu Shiota and Taryn Simon. In precarious times, each work has a sense of fragility.
Emily Floyd's shining Night Parrot, a critically endangered and elusive species, is here, very present, cast in monumental bronze, a material to endure the future. Oliver Beer's Resonance Painting (Cloud Memory) creates a painting from thin air_,_ translating musical harmony into a visual language; the 'shape of sound'. Chiharu Shiota evolves an entire universe from a single cell, then piles layer upon layer of cut, tangled, knotted thread; building a universe within the frame. Angela de la Cruz' _Split _weaves old canvases into the new, now eager to break free from their confines. Loop creates an illusion of many images with each canvas; however, they are all the same. Taryn Simon's work from Paperwork and the Will of Capital signifies the precarious nature of survival, with powerful men next to 'impossible bouquets' signing political accords, contracts, treaties, and decrees. Jan Nelson continues her Black River Running series with an intimate material response to a world full of unfathomable contradictions. David Noonan, in the traditional medium of tapestry, draws upon key aspects of his practice: collage, theatrical themes, found imagery, the relationship between figuration and abstraction and the monochrome palette. Rose Nolan's Big Words - One thing after another one thing leads to another, projects from the wall into the world, challenging the experience of perception and resisting apprehension in a single glance.
IN HOUSE is a clue to new projects, a new year, and significant things to come.
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