An open secret: repositioning abstraction
The Pandora Group has been enthusiastically supported by Dr. John Barnes, the director of the Cessnock Regional Art Gallery, where he will be curating a new exhibition of their work in January 2014. This will provide all artists with an opportunity to show new work and once again demonstrate that their commitment is to making work that is energetic, intelligent and forward looking.
The work will explore a range of experiential, metaphysical and sensory issues using a range of media – painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and sculptural ceramics. Each artist is committed to working within a very speculative and open-ended framework.
An abstract work of art is an open
secret….
Susan
Deat[1]
The Pandora Group has been enthusiastically supported by Dr. John Barnes, the director of the Cessnock Regional Art Gallery, where he will be curating a new exhibition of their work in January 2014. This will provide all artists with an opportunity to show new work and once again demonstrate that their commitment is to making work that is energetic, intelligent and forward looking.
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| New work by Annemarie Murland |
The work will explore a range of experiential, metaphysical and sensory issues using a range of media – painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and sculptural ceramics. Each artist is committed to working within a very speculative and open-ended framework.
The group will
present work that examines new theoretical meanings and understandings of
abstraction. This is achieved because
each artist consistently works towards keeping their research and awareness of
current developments very up to date – they are travelling, reading, doing
artist-in-residencies and exhibiting regularly.
The Pandora Group is also very aware of positioning their practice so
that it forms a significant force in repositioning women at the forefront of
what is now known as New Abstraction”.
Many of these artists are interested in the
physical properties of their works where artists are exploring that “edge”
between object and form, where 2D works are becoming almost three dimensional
creating an ambiguity – a key factor in making sense of our increasingly visual
world.
[1] Stuart Ashman & Susan
Deat Abstract
Art: The New Mexico Artists series Fresco Fine Art Publications Albuquerque
NM 2003 p. 218
