Post 38 - Summer Break
In preparation for the Summer seminar and my final year of MFA at Whitecliff I am revisiting the art I have seen over the summer break.
Micheal Lett gallery
Group Portrait Exhibition 22 Nov - 20 Dec 2023
Anoushka Akel
Group Portrait, 2023, oil, acrylic and wax pencil on canvas 1410 x 2000mm
Anoushka Akel at Micheal Lett Gallery
Anoushka Akel, born in 1977, is an artist residing and practicing in Tamaki Makaurau. Akel explores the realms of painting and printmaking, delving into diverse areas such as embodied knowledge, cognitive psychology, and the aesthetics and philosophy of care. Her artistic endeavors contemplate the interplay of pressure and plasticity concerning the body, behavior, and the artistic creation.
Gallery associate and academic Victoria Wynne-Jones, who also has a long connection with and interest in Akel’s work, describes Akel’s painting practice as singular; her paintings as objects that “work through and intuit entities and felt states that verbal language cannot keep pace with”. 1
Philip Guston - Tate Modern London
Philip Guston
Fable
1956-7
Oil paint on Canvas
Philip Guston, Anxiety,
1975, oil on canvas
Private collection
Amy Silman speaks of the “thicket of heavy air, weighted by strokes of crimson, clumps of grey patches of Orange and glowering pinks (In Guston’s work, pink often seems to indicate something menacing).2
Guston was a complex artist who took inspiration from the nightmarish world around him to create new and surprising imagery. This exhibition explores how his paintings bridged the personal and the political, the abstract and the figurative, the humorous and the tragic. 3
David Hockney - National Portrait Gallery
Detail
Oil On canvas
The many sitters portrayed show his working methods that were absorbing him at the time, for example studying the techniques and tools (camera obscurer for example), of Ingres and learning to employ them himself.
Hockney also discusses how different artists draw at different speeds as individuals and within an individual art work. Pace is something I enjoy changing and have used music to energise my gesture and brushwork.’4
In the Studio
Recent Work
Sally Barron
Horizon
1200 x 1500mm oil on canvas
2024
Re working old canvases
WaterLily remembered
1650 x 1800 mm Oil and ink, gouache and glue on canvas
2024
Sally Barron
Childhood sea
2024
1650 mm x 1800mm
Oil and Printers Ink and Pigment on canvas
wip 2024
650 x 800 mm
oil on canvas
wip
2024
Oil on canvas
100 years ago sketch
A2 Oil on Paper
100 years ago sketch
Oil on paper
https://www.metromag.co.nz/arts/the-painting-of-anoushka-akel
pg 63 Philip Guston Exhibition Catalogue Tate Modern 2023
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/philip-guston
National Portrait Gallery. "Drawing from Life: David Hockney." Past exhibition archive. 2 November 2023 - 21 January 2024. Accessed March 19, 2024. https://www.npg.org.uk/assets/uploads/files/hockney-drawing-from-life-large-print.pdf
