2 -18 AUGUST Wednesday – Sunday 10 – 5 pm
RALPH STANTON
This exhibition is a continuation of my last show There’s a Crack in Everything (after Leonard Cohen). With this work, there is no obvious crack or rupture in the surface or the picture plane. There are layers of light, glowing through an opaque landscape. The paintings reflect an underlying feeling I have that the light we seek is ephemeral. It appears from behind, from the sides, from above, from below, indirect, yet luminous.
Light is integrated and inherent, rather than something that might be more directly stated. Illumination not via a lightning strike, but rather a glow.
I’m interested in the patterns of light as they play out on the texture of the paint’s surface. The painting becomes like a piece of jewellery, an artefact in itself without the need for illustration or to tell a story.
ALAN ROSE
Alan Rose graduated from NAS (National Art School) in 2009.
His art practice has always involved precise three-dimensional geometric repetitions, employing blocks, tiles, grids or lenticular structures to create his multi faceted sculptures
This art picks up the threads of the conceptual art, op-art and kinetic art of the 1960’s, which was less about the immediate expressionism of the artist and more about the mental state of the viewer.
The works are intended to sit on the boundary between order and chaos. The viewer is encouraged to see repeating patterns where there is only disorder, or to see disorder where upon closer examination it is discovered that patterns exist. It is in this moment of contemplation that the artwork becomes successful.