‘Parallel Universe’
2nd – 26th February 2012
Private View Wednesday 1st February 6-9pm
Following on from the
recent Crash Open Salon show, the Charlie Dutton Gallery invites 4 artists
from the Salon exhibition to show new works and asks them to select
another artist of their choice as well.
Isha Bohling has selected Ian Monroe
Nigel Massey brings along Joel Tomlin
Selma Parlour has invited John Chilver
Gavin Toye asked Laura Bygrave
This exhibition brings
together artists and their chosen representative artists that have in
some way subconsciously engaged together to create another dimension,
where works can be ambivalently connected.
In Selma’s work thin washes of extremely subtle colours have been
handled with such exactitude that they create an illuminating sense
of depth whilst acknowledging the flatness of the canvas. This notion
of flatness is parallel in Gavin’s brushwork; explosive marks
that point to a subject elsewhere and paint that is removed and moved
on the surface of the picture plane. The surface is explored in Isha’s
work, where dripping wax balances upon paint, paint striving for a sense
of harmony. Nigel is the inter-disciplinarian of the group, transcending
the boundaries of painting and developing his work through the act of
squashing hidden areas of our surroundings in Perspex; creating containers
of space.