By stripping bare all signifiers from appropriated advertisements, the paintings in ‘Skeleton Makes Good’ emerge as ghostly and enigmatic post-painterly abstractions. They are exercises in delineated areas of colour that emphasise the flatness of the painting surface, a type of reverse expressionism.
This new body of work presents paintings that occupy a space on the opposite end of the visual spectrum, relying on colour, form and other aesthetic hooks often employed by mass advertising.
Sullivan+Strumpf
October 16 to November 3, 2012
Sydney
Cerebral Tactics #2, 2012, acrylic on canvas, 183 x 130cm
Courtesy the artist and Sullivan+Strumpf
