MOP will open in 2014 with three shows to kick off the new year with a bang!
James Lieutenant‘s work uses text, pattern and colour to create graphic and playful compositions that challenge the conventions of contemporary art. His new body of work, SUPER, opens at MOP Projects on January 15th, and will present a new series of unconnected images and words. Using the traditional exhibition format of paintings hung on a wall, James’ work motivates questions about the artist’s idiosyncratic tendencies when dealing with images. With the hyper colours and layered surfaces of James’ process the only consistent link between works, the gallery space in SUPER is complex, confused, and disorientating.
Also showing at MOP for their first show of 2014 is Ben Denham with his show ‘Dimensions of line: I/O U in material thought’, and ‘Dwelling’ by Paul Wells.
Ben Denham‘s show involves a dynamic interplay between drawing machines and programmed works. He has used a custom built drawing machine to make drawings produced with direct corporeal and gestural control, and programmed works that use high resolution positioning as part of a material investigation. It explores the variations that can emerge out of the interface between paper and mark making implements, but also thinking of the machine and the code that runs it, as materials.
Paul Wells’ photographic work examines the ambiguous space where the body ends and the rest of the world begins. Investigating the simple and fundamental transactions between people and spaces, this exhibition involves the relationship between the body and architectural space. It explores how architecture has developed as an extension of the body; thresholds, stairs, scale and proportion of materials all persist even when the body is absent.
MOP Projects
15 January to 4 February, 2014
Sydney
Image: James Lieutenant, SUPER, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 18 cm
Photography: Kate Vassallo
