Emerging curator Felix Ratcliff takes a closer look at the face in VISAGE – a significant new exhibition of contemporary painting opening at Firstdraft gallery.
Exhibition continues: to 25 April 2009
Artist talks: Saturday 25 April 2009 at 4.30pm
Robert Habel, Paessagio Urbano Italiano, Rogues Gallery, 2008.
Oil on canvas, 170×170 cm.
Curated by Felix Ratcliff as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program
Artists: Robert HABEL, Michelle HANLIN, Julian HOOPER, Matthew HOPKINS, Rob McHAFFIE, Mark RODDA & Jake WALKER
VISAGE showcases recent work by seven contemporary artists who variously and idiosyncratically explore the face, portraiture (including self-portraiture), the figure and anthropomorphism as primary subjects in their current practice. Individual approaches to these subjects and themes range from the geometric and pattern-based to the semi-abstracted, organic, wilfully distorted and surreal.
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Surry Hills NSW 2010
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