Meat After Meat Joy, curated by Heide Hatry – 16 October – 15 November
DANEYAL MAHMOOD GALLERY 511 WEST 25 ST, 3FL NEW YORK CITY 10001
If the flesh disturbs you, then the reality behind the issue would disturb you far more if we opened our eyes long enough to see it. We live in a culture disconnected from what it is doing to itself and others, we choose to ignore rather than deal with the reality we have created for ourselves. – Adam Brandejs
Meat After Meat Joy brings together the work of contemporary artists who use meat in their work (raw meat, the concept of meat, its symbolism and viscera) in order to investigate the paradoxical relationship meat has to the body.
Image: Adam Brandejs, Animatronic Flesh Shoe, Latex, Steel, Gear motors, Printed circuit, Rio MP3 Player, Batteries, Staples, Roommates Hair.
15 October-1 November Entanglement exhibition at Manningam Gallery (Doncaster, Victoria)
Entanglement is a word that implies an interweaving of ideas, objects or possessions that cannot be easily separated. In partnership with Monash University Art & Design, the Manningham Gallery has invited several prominent weavers and glass artists, including Brook Morgan, Sara Lindsay, Jennifer King, Ilka White, Ruth McCallum-Howell, Des Fankhauser, and Yhonnie Scarce to participate in this thought provoking show.
This group of artists explore the notion of entanglement from individual and collaborative perspectives. What they share is an understanding of the interconnectedness of all things, whether it is from the point of view of science and mathematics or psychology. The concept of dualism is abandoned and replaced with endless, simultaneous creative possibilities.
Image caption: Rodney Love, I Am Because We Are, Socks, cotton, polyester ribbon, on wooden frame
Kate Just is a Melbourne based artist known for her sculptural knitting practice informed strongly by emotional and autobiographical references. Experiences of childhood memory, migration, and the death of her brother influenced early works. Imbued with a sense of melancholy and disconnection that came with leaving and losing family. … Recent works mark a conscious turn toward reinterpreting mythologies connecting women and nature and focus on physical change as a metaphor for personal struggle, awakening sexuality and creativity.
check out her solo show The Garden of Interior Delights, at Don’t Come Gallery, (Melbourne), Royal Arcade, (enter Lt Collins Street, and go all the way up stairs after Cafe Torta), Opening: Friday October 17, Show runs until 1 November 2008. Kate Just website and more of her previous work here.
Post Chrysalis at Sullivan+Strumpf Fine Art, 7 – 26 October 2009.
Post Chrysalis, a reference to the emergence from the cocoon, describes this exhibition of six remarkable emerging artists
working in various mediums, from crocheting, weaving, meccano construction, to painting. Three of the artists include:
Annie Aitken: uses plastic fruit and vegetable nets to ‘draw’ delicate vessels through stitching.
Helle Jorgensen: uses plastic bag yarn and crochet to make an ecological statement while celebrating nature’s marine beauty and commenting on its fragility.
Edward Waring: uses discarded meccano pieces in is sculptures which relate to docklands and the primary colours and graphics on the weatherworn hulls of ships.
Image caption: Helle Jorgensen Sagarita (2008) discarded plastic bag yarn, variable size – approx 8 x 16cm
Here’s to my sweet Satan’ from Julia Robinson, soft sculpture, on at Uber Gallery, Melbourne, 1 October to 4 November 2008
In Here’s to my sweet Satan, Robinson’s creatures are reminiscent of those superstitious constructs that seduced and revolted the saints with perverted whispers. The exhibition is replete with darkness, torture and a strong sense of sadism, but thankfully no moralistic overtones. Robinson’s compulsion towards the conflicts and complements that occur when objects or themes of corruption, debasement and nefariousness are met with exquisite beauty, continues in this extraordinary exhibition.
Image caption: Julia Robinson, Untitled, 2008, Variable dimensions, Flywire, fibreglass, felt, fabric, fixings, flocking, thread, resin and paint
