Ryan Renshaw Gallery

2011-09-06T11:32:00.001+10:00

Michael Johansson

2011-09-06T11:28:00.001+10:00

Jose Castrellon

2011-09-06T11:19:00.001+10:00

James Turrell

2011-09-06T11:17:00.000+10:00

Isa Genzken

2011-09-06T11:14:00.000+10:00

EVOL

2011-09-06T11:06:00.001+10:00

Élise Morin

2011-07-22T22:30:00.000+10:00

Petrit Halilaj with Chert Berlin @ Art Basel 2011

2011-07-22T20:54:00.001+10:00

Rashid Rana

2011-07-17T22:46:00.001+10:00

Christian Marclay 'The Clock' (2010) WhiteCube

2011-07-15T13:34:00.000+10:00

Ivan Navarro, Chile.

2011-07-15T13:29:00.006+10:00

New work by Glenn Brown.

2011-06-18T22:19:00.000+10:00

Xavier Chassaing 'Scintillation'

2011-06-18T21:34:00.000+10:00

Hunter Jonakin 'Jeff Koons Must Die!!!'

2011-06-18T21:33:00.001+10:00

Ai Weiwei

Please take the time to fill out the petition in call for the release of Ai Weiwei from Chinese prison.

2011-06-18T21:31:00.000+10:00

Jan Kempenaers

2011-06-18T21:29:00.000+10:00

Ethan Breckenridge

2011-06-18T21:27:00.000+10:00

Hassan Rahim

2011-06-01T22:25:00.003+10:00

Adam Schreiber

2011-06-01T22:14:00.001+10:00

Best show for me in NYC during April...

Erik Wysocan @ Andrea Rosen Gallery

2011-06-01T22:10:00.002+10:00

New Work by Artie Vierkant

2011-01-20T15:34:00.001+10:00

Jørgen Leth 'The perfect human'

2010-12-08T15:56:00.003+10:00

Yochai Matos 'Eclipse' (Turning on) (2007)

2010-12-08T15:45:00.002+10:00

YOCHAI MATOS 'Flame (Gate)'
Light installation, 2009, 850 x 530 cm
photo: Lovis Ostenrik

2010-11-05T15:57:00.001+10:00

RAY LAMONTAGNE

2010-11-05T13:46:00.000+10:00

Ujin Lee

2010-10-09T14:40:00.001+10:00

Artie Vierkant

2010-10-09T14:36:00.002+10:00

Lindy Lawson

2010-10-09T13:51:00.002+10:00

JESSICA LABATTE

2010-10-07T11:38:00.003+10:00

ALEX PRAGER

2010-10-07T11:35:00.002+10:00

Marie Koetje

2010-06-17T10:45:00.000+10:00

2010-06-17T10:42:00.000+10:00

Photo Artist - Mary Frey

2010-05-15T00:18:00.002+10:00

Unmissable! Watch all 13 eps on Vimeo if you have the time....

August 4, 2006, the personal search queries of 650,000 AOL (America Online) users accidentally ended up on the Internet, for all to see. These search queries were entered in AOL's search engine over a three-month period. After three days AOL realized their blunder and removed the data from their site, but the sensitive private data had already leaked to several other sites.

I love Alaska tells the story of one of those AOL users. We get to know a religious middle-aged woman from Houston, Texas, who spends her days at home behind her TV and computer. Her unique style of phrasing combined with her putting her ideas, convictions and obsessions into AOL's search engine, turn her personal story into a disconcerting novel of sorts.

Over a period of three months, a portrait of a woman emerges who is diligently searching for likeminded souls. The list of her search queries read aloud by a voice-over reads like a revealing character study of a somewhat obese middle-aged lady in her menopause, who is looking for a way to rejuvenate her sex life. In the end, when she cheats on her husband with a man she met online, her life seems to crumble around her. She regrets her deceit, admits to her Internet addiction and dreams of a new life in Alaska.

Directors:
Lernert Engelberts
Sander Plug

2010-05-15T00:00:00.002+10:00

Video directed by Sou Ootsuki

2010-05-14T23:35:00.002+10:00

Installation view of new work by Brisbane-based collaboration DavisThomas at NoFrills* Gallery: Studio 3.10 109 Edward Street Brisbane

May 5 - May 23, 2010.

Following text courtesy of NoFrills Gallery Artist-run Initiative, Brisbane.

UnRaveL created by collaborative team DavisThomas (Adrian Davis and Lubi Thomas) is an ambitious kinetic work, being housed in the No Frills* gallery.

This immense mechanical artwork will systematically engulf the gallery, prompting causal relationships between media, space, viewer and artistic creation. Through form and function the work alludes to the industrious nature of the site, corporeal encounters and sublime sensorial responses.

DavisThomas have exhibited widely across Brisbane, including The Block, !Metro Arts, QUT Art Museum and Soapbox, as well as internationally at Beijing’s Today Gallery. They also have an expanding public arts practice, with commissions from both private and public sector clients.

2010-05-10T15:32:00.001+10:00

TEDxAmsterdam: Merlijn Twaalfhoven from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo.

2010-05-10T15:20:00.001+10:00

Le Monde des Montagnes (The World of Mountains), an ECAL graduate project by Camille Scherrer

2010-05-10T15:17:00.000+10:00

VIDEO DIRECTED BY TAKAFUMI TSUCHIYA (TAKCOM)

Ida Walked Away from takcom™ on Vimeo.

2010-05-10T15:13:00.001+10:00

THE WAY OF THE WORLD

2010-05-10T14:54:00.000+10:00

2010-05-10T14:39:00.003+10:00

Rodney Glick @ 2010 Sydney Biennale

Sydney Biennale Website

2009-08-15T08:25:00.004+10:00

James and Eleanor Avery | Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow @ Nell ie Castan, Melbourne

August 27 - September 18, 2009

James & Eleanor Avery, Laresa Kosloff, Sanne Mestrom, Dorota Mytych, Izabela Pluta, Amelie Scalercio, Matthew Watts

Peter Madden | My Own Private Idealogue @ Gertrude Street Contemporary Art Spaces, 2009

2009-08-11T12:59:00.005+10:00

My Own Private Idealogue | Gertrude Street Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia

Curated by Emily Cormack

Peter Madden

Rohan Wealleans

Joanna Langford

Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces is pleased to present a new exhibition My Own Private Idealogue. This exhibition combines the work of three artists, Joanna Langford, Peter Madden and Rohan Wealleans. Each of these artists employs a highly subjective language to describe personal mythologies, fictional histories and symbolic landscapes.

Whilst these artists employ distinct materials and methods, they are connected through their impulse to appropriate objects, artefacts and historical accounts in a highly personal manner. In their sculptural installations, the often-everyday materials used are imbued with new identities, and become implicated in vast mythological environments.

Peter Madden employs collage to distil meaning from found images, lifting creatures and scenes from National Geographic magazine and reassembling them in vast accumulations and installations. Madden instils his cut-outs with an energy that is all their own – employing the language of connotation to give movement, meaning and combustion to his dislocated creatures as they inhabit their ideographic landscapes.

Joanna Langford’s vast impossible landscapes often feature small wooden ladders and buildings that traverse billowing plastic bag mountain ranges, catering to the needs of a civilization known only to the artist.

The totems, tools and props that populate Rohan Wealleans’ work seem to have been created to cultivate a primal landscape of protrusions and intrusions, constructed from layers of paint, teeth and shark’s jaws that take on Indiana Joneseque tribalism.

Conceptually My Own Private Idealogue fleshes out the relationship between psychoanalysis and post colonialism, examining the extent to which these three artists are responding to our contemporary de-colonised position, in which symbols and histories are readily detachable, and identities and mythologies are personalised as much as they are polemic.

This exhibition features a major selection of work from across Wealleans’ and Madden’s careers and invites the viewer to contemplate the spectrum of their practice, as well as featuring a large-scale, site-specific installation by Joanna Langford.

My Own Private Idealogue will occupy both gallery spaces at GCAS, with the gallery space activated by a collaborative architectural component that will mimic and highlight the unique interplay between these artists’ innovative expressions of their personal, interior worlds.

Bryan Spier exhibiting at RRG in September 2009

2009-08-11T12:04:00.006+10:00

Bryan Spier | September 10 - 26, 2009

BRYAN SPIER 'The Dark' (2009)

BRYAN SPIER 'Permanent' (2009)

BRYAN SPIER 'Overlapping' (2009)

BRYAN SPIER 'Modular' (2009)

BRYAN SPIER 'Giant Ocean' (2009)

BRYAN SPIER 'Dots' (2009)

BRYAN SPIER 'Chromatherapy' (2008)

BRYAN SPIER 'Blood with Reeds' (2009)

Pat Foster & Jen Berean Open @ Ryan Renshaw

2009-08-11T11:42:00.007+10:00

Melbourne-based collaboration Pat Foster and Jen Berean

open @ Ryan Renshaw Gallery | Friday 21st August, 2009. 6-8pm

PAT FOSTER & JEN BEREAN

The Problem with Stability, 2008

NEW09, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

SCAPE Biennial, Christchurch, New Zealand.

The Public are the Police, the Police are the Public, Installation View,

Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces - Studio 12, 2008

Low Expectations, Murray White Room, Melbourne, 2008

Martin Smith | Inheritance @ ACP

2009-07-29T15:23:00.004+10:00

INHERITANCE with Bindi Cole, Tamara Dean, Lee Grant, June Indrefjord, Bronek Kozka, Ka-Yin Kwok, Tracey Moffatt, Fiona Morris, Aaron Seeto, Martin Smith and Toni Wilkinson.

For more information click here.

Christopher Langton | Soft Sculpture @ NGA

2009-07-29T15:12:00.003+10:00

Plastic is cheap, lightweight, flexible, ubiquitous and politically unsound—a synthetic material, derived from petroleum. Formed by industrial methods, with limited application to craft and handforming techniques, it is a perishable material best suited to mass production of cheap consumer goods. Plastic is a material of the kitsch object—a debaser of the ideals of high culture and high art.[1]

Christopher Langton uses plastics technology initially developed for the aeronautic industry.[2] The introduction of high-frequency PVC welding in the 1960s―allowing sheets to be joined with thin, air-tight seams—resulted in a huge increase in the number and types of inflatable items produced.[3] Claes Oldenburg, Jeff Koons, and especially Japanese and Korean artists subsequently employed pneumatics to a remarkable range of effects.[4] Looking at Langton’s sculptures, however, it is mass-produced toys, blow-up pools, beach balls and jumping castles that come to mind. Kitsch, sugary and sometimes spooky, irresistibly consumerist and undeniably desirable―we can’t help but want to join in the fun.

Langton’s oversized toys and other objects are bright, overwhelming and often of frightening proportions. They loom over us, crowd into our space, ignoring the traditional distance between art and viewer. Sugar the pill was originally installed in the basement of a nineteenth-century apothecary’s shop, arranged as if tumbling out of a dispensary. The architectural setting of Sugar the pill may thus be imagined as standing in for the body. The artist has remade components for the 2009 installation—a few repairs were necessary, and he also took advantage of more sophisticated techniques—and some pills are now more colourful, or composed of multiple capsules. From the classic 1960s ‘mother’s little helpers’, to an age when a plethora of substances in capsule form is available to combat anything from weight-gain to depression, we sense that the element of fun masks darker meanings. A spoonful of sugar does indeed make the medicine go down.

Lucina Ward

Curator,
International Painting and Sculpture
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

For the NGA website click here.

James Dodd @ Cast

2009-07-29T14:45:00.005+10:00

During June and July, CAST Gallery in Hobart, Tasmania, will play host to the Cryptophilistinism group exhibition. The show was first presented earlier in 2009 at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne. It has been curated by Amita Kirpilani and features work by Stuart Bailey, James Dodd, Sarah Goffman, Scott Morrison and Justin Trendall.
More shots can be seen on the CAST site.

James and Eleanor Avery @ Studio Trisorio, Rome, Italy

2009-07-29T14:35:00.002+10:00

FEEDER was constructed specifically for the space at gallery Studio Trisorio in Rome. It consists of a central mirror laminated sculpture and a series of smaller satellite works. FEEDER is a cult group stageset, part sci-fi iconography, part belief system idealogy. It brings together ambitious ideals of discovery and utopian existence, feeding into the prescribed entertainment of contemporary society. For more information go here

Ryan Renshaw Gallery

2009-07-28T14:07:00.001+10:00

Ryan Renshaw is a commercial art gallery located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery exhibits Australian and International emerging and mid-career artists.

Artists who have exhibited at Ryan Renshaw include Justin Andrews, James Avery, Eleanor Avery, Daniel Askill, Stephan Balleux (Belgium), Bianca Barling, Hannah and Aaron Beehre (NZ), Christopher Bennie, Peter Booth, Matthew Bradley, Andre Brodyk, Kirsty Bruce, Joanna Callaghan (UK), Claudia Damichi, Karl DeWaal, Mark Dean, James Dodd, Jon Dowding, Craig Easton, Franz Ehmann, Leah Emery, Ena (Japan), Christian Flynn, Nicholas Folland, Pat Foster and Jen Berean, Ben Frost, Diena Georgetti, Rodney Glick, Kim Guthrie, Ippei Gyoubu (Japan), Ian Haig, Chris Handran, Irene Hanenburgh, Jessica Herrington, PJ Hickman, Wilkins Hill, Katie Jacobs, Kirra Jamison, Jess Johnson, Jumpei Kawamu (Japan), Mari Kubota (Japan), Kaoru Kuwajima (Japan), Christopher Langton, Saskia Leek, Owen Leong, The Long Way Round (UK), Jennifer Lowrey, Alasdair Macintyre, Peter Madden (NZ), Jordan Marani, Yoshiro Masuda (Japan), Mio Matsumoto (Japan), Scott Miles, Clare Milledge, Viv Miller, Jennifer Mills, Sebastian Moody, Archie Moore, Mimi Murai (Japan), Tom Muller, Ben Murrell, Simeon Nelson (UK), John Nicholson, Michelle Nikou, Takeshi Nitta (Japan), Danielle O'Brien, Shaun O'Connor, Ryuji Otani (Japan), Pandarosa, PCP (Japan), Sonya Peters, Luke Pither, Marisa Purcell, Caitlin Reid, Bruce Reynolds, Nick Robba, Luisa Rossitto, Giles Ryder, David Sequiera, Tim Sharp, Kate Shaw, Neko Showgun (Japan), Sam Smith, Martin Smith, Bryan Spier, Justin Stephens, Masato Takasaka, Regan Tamanui, Emma Van Leest, Re:Verse (Japan), Akira Wakui (Japan), Anne Wallace, Daniel Wallwork, Darren Wardle, Louise Weaver, Phil Williams, Martin Wilson, ZanPon (Japan)