Our next exhibition at YAVA, Quiet Complexity, brings together abstract works that explore simplicity and restraint, allowing the viewer's interpretation to develop in response to the pared-back techniques and execution.
A deceptively simple work of art is arresting: the restraint in white space, spare lines, use of colour. These elements provoke our curiosity; they work with our senses and emotions.
The beauty of restrained simplicity speaks to our experience of what it is to be, in this moment. It's an uncomplicated conversation, but it leads to wonder and contemplation: a quiet complexity.
Featuring works by:
Dawn Csutoros
Is a contemporary Australian artist currently based in Melbourne who exhibits both nationally and internationally.
Csutoros’ artworks range across a variety of mediums, from subtle, luminous pigment pieces to contemplative ink works on traditional handmade papers, dynamic acrylic paintings and, more recently, video projection and sound installations.
Her work is phenomenological in essence.
The artist’s long-term interest in Eastern philosophy, Daoism in particular – with its underlying tenet of the harmony of opposites, and her exploration into quantum theory, is the underpinning foundation of her art making.
Her art pieces explore the notions of time and space on universal and existential levels, resulting in abstract imagery and the exploration of the sensuality and energy of the medium in the purest way possible, both in its physicality and its conceptual capacity.
David Bennett
David’s work is generally landscape-based – of his immediate environment of the Yarra Valley, and further afield to the You Yangs, Grampians, Flinders Ranges, and different countries he has visited. He works from memory, something he has absorbed by being in the landscape rather than working directly from it, endeavoring to portray the feeling that it evokes.
His main influences are Toss Woollaston, Fred Williams, Sidney Nolan and Willem de Kooning.
Jenny Davis
Is a professional artist living in Victoria, Australia and has intermittently lived in Paris, London and Spain, where she was awarded an arts residency in Barcelona.
Jenny has worked on several creative and research projects throughout Europe and the US over the past 20 years. Her practice encompasses painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, photography, book arts, textiles, installation‚ video‚ sound and virtual worlds. Jenny's artwork has been exhibited in Australia, Berlin, Paris, Spain, the UK and the US, and is represented in numerous private and public collections.
She has received awards and residencies both nationally and internationally, and her digital artworks have been projected onto buildings in Times Square, New York, and at the 2017 Venice Biennale 57. ‘In researching and documenting under-structure, abandoned buildings and marks left behind in the built environment, I find beauty in decay, random marks, aerial perspectives, graffiti and weathered surfaces.’
Her artworks link to the contrasts of imperfections, found in the urban environment, highlighting insignificant marks, weathered surfaces and cast-offs. She is influenced by abandoned, underground and derelict spaces, vacant industrial sites, structures, old walls and graffiti. Jenny currently works from her studio in the Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia.
Jerry Osadczuk
Jerry has studied Sumie painting in Japan. He describes himself as an abstract contemporary artist with surrealist overtones. He doesn’t take himself too seriously and couldn’t imagine life without art.
Brenda Meynell
Is an abstract artist originally from the UK, but after living in Spain for 12 years on the beautiful island of Ibiza, she now lives in the stunning Yarra Valley in Australia. As she is surrounded by mountains, rainforest and rivers, her work in her country studio cannot fail to be influenced by such outstanding beauty.
Her intuitive work is a slow process of painting layers, stripping away and mark marking until finally the imagery she has been searching for is revealed. Her paintings and fine art prints sell worldwide and she has a particularly loyal following in the USA.
6 August 2020
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