Sydney-siders beware as China Heights Gallery has come well prepared tonight! Chris Town’s new solo show ‘Randy Credit Ruins Daily Contrast’ will be in full swing!
“My latest body of work is made up of two parts. The first are works that combine found object assemblage with painting in gouache. In doing so, I am attempting to illustrate the contrast between a natural world, comprised of the pure, joyous hues of an organic landscape and the urban world, dominated by the grey grime of pollution, where rubbish skirts our ankles at every turn. The seed for these works germinated during two visits to China in 2010. It was in Beijing that I was struck by a city so incredibly polluted and seemingly steeped in an eternal ‘overcast’ state. In stark contrast to this, was the advertising, where packaging was soaked with such intense colours; perhaps a bizarre attempt to fool people into thinking they do not live in this intensely polluted world.
The second are works derived from my daily observations of printed media. Imbued with humour and irony, these works poke fun at, mock, and revel in the daily servings of manipulation the media expels. By choosing an image and placing a seemingly unrelated, hand-painted, headline against it, each works assemblage creates a new, singular narrative; intended to entice, inflame and repel.
These two bodies of work, when placed side-by-side in all their aesthetic contrast, form a visual commentary on what my world has become…” – Says Chris
Come see the show and get into this astutely observant, progressive art that is both pleasing to the eye as it is to the mind.
Who: Chris Town What: Randy Credit Ruins Daily Contrast – Solo Show Where: China Heights Gallery – 3, 16-28 Foster St Surry Hills NSW When: Opening night 30th September 6pm. Show runs til 15th October 2011
Exhibition – Chris Town – China Heights Gallery – Sydney
Sydney-siders beware as China Heights Gallery has come well prepared tonight! Chris Town’s new solo show ‘Randy Credit Ruins Daily Contrast’ will be in full swing!
“My latest body of work is made up of two parts. The first are works that combine found object assemblage with painting in gouache. In doing so, I am attempting to illustrate the contrast between a natural world, comprised of the pure, joyous hues of an organic landscape and the urban world, dominated by the grey grime of pollution, where rubbish skirts our ankles at every turn. The seed for these works germinated during two visits to China in 2010. It was in Beijing that I was struck by a city so incredibly polluted and seemingly steeped in an eternal ‘overcast’ state. In stark contrast to this, was the advertising, where packaging was soaked with such intense colours; perhaps a bizarre attempt to fool people into thinking they do not live in this intensely polluted world.
The second are works derived from my daily observations of printed media. Imbued with humour and irony, these works poke fun at, mock, and revel in the daily servings of manipulation the media expels. By choosing an image and placing a seemingly unrelated, hand-painted, headline against it, each works assemblage creates a new, singular narrative; intended to entice, inflame and repel.
These two bodies of work, when placed side-by-side in all their aesthetic contrast, form a visual commentary on what my world has become…” – Says Chris
Come see the show and get into this astutely observant, progressive art that is both pleasing to the eye as it is to the mind.
Who: Chris Town
What: Randy Credit Ruins Daily Contrast – Solo Show
Where: China Heights Gallery – 3, 16-28 Foster St Surry Hills NSW
When: Opening night 30th September 6pm. Show runs til 15th October 2011
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