‘Concrete Abstractions’ features Sydney-based artist and educator Nicole Ellis and New Zealand-born Melbourne-based artist Craig Easton. Their practices both address the possibilities of abstract art and stem from a space in art history that has surprising relevancy and impeccable curation. The exhibition brings together two different perspectives, uniting them in an aesthetic of language that uses completely different and unorthodox materials to explore shape and form.
Easton’s works break apart his own approach to formal abstraction, referring to the first stage of his painting process: his preliminary sketches. Ellis works on issues of culture and history, in relation to materiality and site-specific installations that reference colonial history, interdisciplinary practice, landscape and contemporary painting.
Conny Dietzschold Gallery
1 February to 1 March, 2014
Sydney
Nicole Ellis, Skate, Old Linen (grey), 2013, cotton, linen, acrylic paint, backed and mounted on canvas, 99.8 x 74.5cm
Courtesy the artist and Conny Dietzschold Gallery
