Fabricated Biophilia - St Heliers Street Gallery

This is the print I completed for a print exchange, Beautiful Soup, curated by Melbourne artist Rona Green.

The exhibition was held at St Heliers Street Gallery, Abbotsford.

Woodblock print and screen print.

Dimensions: 18cm x 13cm

Some images of the edition

Printing the final layer

Choosing prints for the edition

The final step, Signing and editioning the prints.

Constructed Naturally

Constructed Naturally

Screen Printed leaves onto various papers, hand cut.

Dimensions: 170cm x 84cm (Excluding Frame)

Same Same... Folio Exchange

My Specimens... 

A little bit about this project.
Each leaf was relief printed in black onto acetate. These acetate prints were then used as positives for screen printing. I exposed all my leaves onto a screen and printed it three times. Once on fluoro orange cardboard, once on brown paper and once onto purple plastic.

The image above is a photo of all my leaves before they were distributed for the exchange folios. Each participant of the exchange was given one orange, one brown and one purple printed leaf - chosen randomly. Each participant received a completely unique set of prints and each print had its own specimen number.
   

Only Natural - Platform Arts Space

Only Natural 

Platform Art Space, Melbourne

New York - The Whitney Museum

Sherrie Levine: Mayhem
Who knew Levine's photographs of other artists' photographs would have such an impact! Here are a couple of her pieces that have lingered with me....

Sherrie Levine (b.1947), After Karl Blossfeldt: 3, 1990. Gelatin silver print, 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm). Private collection. © Sherrie Levine. Image courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Sherrie Levine (b.1947), Gottscho-Schleisner Orchids: 2, 1964–97. Chromogenic print, 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm). Edition no. 2/10. Published by Winter Works on Paper, New York. Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. © Sherrie Levine. Image courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Both images came from The Whitney Museum website here

I also found the exhibition essay really interesting, you can find it here


While wandering the many impressive spaces of The Whitney, I stumbled across this piece by Eva Hesse

Eva Hesse, No title, 1970, Latex, rope, string and wire, dimensions variable.

This image came from The Whitney Museum website, you can find it here

New York - Brooklyn Museum

My very rushed, and unprepared, visit to the Brooklyn Museum resulted in seeing a ridiculous amount of work, but not very thoroughly.
Of all the work I saw, the Eva Hesse exhibition Eva Hesse Spectres 1960 is what I think of when I remember my time at the Brooklyn Museum.

Eva Hesse, No title, 1960, oil on canvas, 36x36 inches

There's a much better photo, and information about the exhibition here.


I was also very excited to see a Kara Walker piece, Burning African Village Play Set with Big House and Lynching, 2006, painted laser cut steel.

You can see more images of this piece on the Brooklyn Museum website, here

New York - Chelsea Galleries

So much art, so little time!! Some of the highlights from the Chelsea galleries.....

Sarah Braman, Yours, Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Yoko Ono, Uncursed! Galerie Lelong

Andreas Kocks, Re: Paint, Winston Wachter Fine Art

Keith Smith, Book by Book, Bruce Silverstein