... reclining Venus sunburns as she
lies naked in the landscape. Conroy then goes on to challenge
traditional notions of how work should be exhibited as she mails
her postcards directly to the curator or gallery in question.
Conroy therefore relinquishes all control over her work as soon
as it is completed.
Sam Dargan creates small scale paintings that express the
alienation and frustration experienced in contemporary daily
life. Isolated middle income men are depicted in stark
environments with political graffiti often forming the backdrop.
Dargan's work is packed with hostility, commenting on the
imbalance of power systems and the futile existence of the
individual. Dargan's work often responds to cinematic imagery
and 20th Century literature, and more recently to the melancholy
and underlying savagery of the Mannerist era.
Tom Hackney has turned his impeccable photo-realism toward the
awe inspiring romanticism of Casper David Friedrich. Working at
the same canvas size as Friedrich, Hackney has used found or
original photographic sources that correspond to specific
paintings. Each piece undergoes a series of filtering procedures
as Hackney constructs the final translation. |
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