Applying modernist sculpture techniques to portraiture and still life painting, Zoe Young creates works that, although nostalgic, domestic and unapologetically feminine in subject matter, are built upon solid structural foundations revealing picture planes that curve and block as sculpture does. Following Euan Uglows approach to making marks, the colour and tone are mixed, considered and carved with conviction at the easel.
In ‘Winter Soundtrack’, Young returns to her childhood, particularly her time spent in ski resorts during the Australian snow season.
Zoe Young, Where It’s At (Beck), 2018, acrylic on Birchwood, 40 x 30cm
Zoe Young, Over the Rainbow (Judy Garland), 2018, acrylic on Belgian linen, 120 x 140cm
Olsen Gallery
8 to 26 August, 2018
Sydney
