These Days - COMA Gallery

These Days
Curated by Sebastian Goldspink

CATHERINE CLAYTON-SMITH, EMILY GALICEK, ZARA JUNE WILLIAMS,
JASPER KNIGHT, JACK LANAGAN DUNBAR, TANYA LINNEY, ELYSS MCCLEARY,
MARILYN SCHNIEDER, LAURA, SKERLJ, ELENA ORTEGA TOLOSANA,
JULIA TRYBALA, BRADLEY VINCENT

6 March - 28 March, 2020

These Days is a group exhibition focused on painting that is juxtaposed with
archival Video 8 elements. When I was 13 my family purchased a Sony Video 8
                                         Camcorder to document our holidays.

      I took to the new technology and began using it to document daily life as
opposed to just travel. Through using this device I made my first explorations
   in composition, colour and making meaning through images. Watching the
hours of archival footage back I saw how much my 13-year-old self struggled
  with the technology. I remember inviting my friends to watch this seemingly
    incoherent footage. Footage that was only unified by the fact that it purely
represented my eye. What I was personally interested in even if I struggled to
                                                                articulate why.

          Painting is about lots of things but perhaps fundamentally it is about
 problems. It takes a very specific mindset to grapple with all the physical and
  conceptual rigours required to render an idea visually. This exhibition brings
   together a seemingly disparate group of young Australian painters who are
   united in their passion for embracing the challenges of painting, of working
    through the problems. Painting is a great game that is ultimately between
        the artist and the surface. As a curator, I work with images and artists
    concurrently. I am fundamentally interested in artists’ relationship to their
  work. I am captivated by being given insight into these conceptual battles or
     the ever-present wrestling with materials that occupy and propel artists.

   This exhibition is idiosyncratic. It’s a selection that is based on threads and
     connections between artists. These Days looks at what is happening now
  but also what has passed. It is a screening. Lights on. My hand fumbles with
   cables on the back of the television. The screen pops and the footage fades
                                                               into view. Lights out.

                                                            – Sebastian Goldspink

Elyss McCleary
Behind Eyelids with Music,
green rainbow pulser
split, 2020
oil on linen
107.5 x 122 cm
42 5/16 x 48 inches

Elyss McCleary
Behind Eyelids with Music,
aluminum silver stains by us, 2020
oil on linen
122 x 107.5 cm
48 x 42 5/16 inches

Julia Trybala
Sleeping Child, 2019
oil on canvas
107 x 122 cm
42 x 48 inches

Tanya Linney
After Dinner Mint, 2020
household paint, tablecloth, unprimed
canvas, linen perspex and wooden
stretcher bars on canvas
102 x 122 cm
40 1/8 x 48 inches

Tanya Linney
Xerox Hermit, 2020
acrylic and beach towel on canvas
37 x 47 cm
14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches

Tanya Linney
Two peas, 2020
acrylic, enamel and velvet on canvas
37 x 47 cm
14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches

Tanya Linney
Semantic Algebra, 2020
acrylic, enamel and curtain remnants on linen
37 x 47 cm
14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches

Tanya Linney
Twins, 2020
acrylic, beach towel and gel medium on canvas
37 x 47 cm
14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches

Tanya Linney
Expanded painting (Domestic), 2020
chair, acrylic, enamel, material and net
Dimensions Variable

Bradley Vincent
I watched the sun rise in the rear
window of his car, 2020
acrylic and ink on silk
40 x 30 cm
15 3/4 x 11 13/16 inches

Bradley Vincent
(Swim out) to the shark net
in your home town, 2019
acrylic and ink on silk
40 x 30 cm
15 3/4 x 11 13/16 inches

Bradley Vincent
Terrazzo, 2020
acrylic and ink on silk
54 x 42 cm
21 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches

Bradley Vincent
A road sign in a bushfire sunset,
last September, 2019
acrylic and ink on silk
46 x 54 cm
18 3/32 x 21 1/4 inches

Jasper Knight
Marked Painting No.1, 2016
enamel, acrylic, perspex and
aluminum on board
60 x 55 cm
23 5/8 x 21 5/8 inches

Jack Lanagan Dunbar &
Zara June Williams
Untitled, 2018
acrylic, oil, copper, pencil, board
69 x 65 cm
27 x 25 inches

Marilyn Schneider
148-8PLC-A/90005803, 2019
gouache on stretched canvas
70 x 50 cm
27 9/16 x 19 11/16 inches

Marilyn Schneider
Visual Comfort & Co, 2019
gouache on stretched canvas
70 x 50 cm
27 9/16 x 19 11/16 inches

Marilyn Schneider
Prawn Cocktail, 2019
gouache on stretched canvas
70 x 50 cm
27 9/16 x 19 11/16 inches

Emily Galicek
What Do U Want For Breakfast, 2019
acrylic on canvas
122 x 92 cm
48 x 36 7/32 inches

Elena Ortega Tolosana
Little Wallet, 2019
oil on canvas
51.4 x 61.5 cm
20 7/32 x 24 7/32 inches

Elena Ortega Tolosana
Reach, 2019
oil on canvas
48.6 x 64.2 cm
19 1/8 x 25 9/32 inches

Laura Skerlj
Necklace I, 2020
oil on paper
59 x 79 cm
23 7/32 x 31 3/32 inches

Laura Skerlj
Necklace II, 2020
oil on paper
59 x 79 cm
23 7/32 x 31 3/32 inches

Catherine Clayton-Smith
Sleep Pattern (4), 2019
acrylic on canvas
66 x 66 cm
26 x 26 inches

Catherine Clayton-Smith
Sleep Pattern (3), 2019
acrylic on canvas
31 x 31 cm
12 3/16 x 12 3/16 inches

Catherine Clayton-Smith
Sleep Pattern (2), 2019
acrylic on canvas
31 x 31 cm
12 3/16 x 12 3/16 inches

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