For the first time since opening two spaces Sanderson Contemporary Art and City Art Rooms presents a single exhibition which spans across both of their Auckland galleries. FINE showcases fresh works from young / emerging artists including 7 artists brand new to the Sanderson stable.
SERIES NOTES “Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), “Nominalist and Realist,” Essays, Second Series (1844)
Fine investigates meticulous making and tantalizing detail in the works of several emerging and mid-career artists. The medium shifts according to each artist’s particular engagement: obsessive pen drawings, reductive sculptural processes, precise scissor work and collage, traditional oil painting. Time weighs silently over each piece, and the whole is informed by every decision made in the studio – whether intuitively discovered or pre-meditated with exactitude. The artists represented in Fine have gone to painstaking lengths to find the devil in the details. It is clear, however, that these artists’ hands have certainly not been idle. Featuring: Dave Beazely, Caryline Boreham, Matt Coyle, Antony Densham, Candi Dentice, Gill Gatfield, Linda Holloway, Sonia Keogh, Yoshiko Nakahara, Martin Selman, Oliver Stretton-Pow, Tracey Walker.
THE ARTISTS Dave Beazely creates fantasy worlds painted in bright acrylic colours. He provides an intimate view into the frantic lives of odd humans, robots, and creatures that mingle peacefully – sometimes. Caryline Boreham will present traditional black and white photograms and a room full of old-fashioned speakers, which play voices describing memories of their most cherished objects. Matt Coyle shows off his intense line work in lithographs lifted from the pages of his recently published graphic novel, Worry Doll. Meditative, calm, and obsessive, Antony Densham’s modern mandalas are composed of intricate magazine cut-outs of high fashion merchandise – jewellery, perfumes, stilettos. Candi Dentice explores surreal forests in her delicate oil paintings of fictional and optically illusionist landscapes. Is she playing a trick, or perhaps she’s lost too? Gill Gatfield utilises precision in her reflective sculptures and wall objects to powerful effect. Linda Holloway’s organic abstractions in enamel create new forms, relationships, and patterns that evoke the molecular and scientific. Polymer clay allows Sonia Keogh to sculpt visceral, life-like humanimals that defy science and provoke an instant emotional response. Yoshiko Nakahara can do wonders in black. Sensuous layers of ink are pressed against white paper in her meticulous drawings of flora. Martin Selman sculpts seemingly soft, everyday objects out of hard Carrara marble. Creating smooth forms that insist on being touched, he successfully conjures textural contrasts of hard and soft. Oliver Stretton-Pow’s finished works in Kauri wood demonstrate a high sensitivity to material and form. The relentless lines of subdivisions, roads, pylons and the patterns of the urban landscape are combined in the etched and painted works of Tracey Walker evoking meticulous structure and form.
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