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‘Contemporary Painting’ at fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne 7 – 18 May 2013

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Gallery 9 proudly presents Contemporary Painting at fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne: 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne: Tuesday 7 – Saturday 18 May 2013

Simon Blau, Julian Hooper, Suzie Idiens, Tonee Messiah, Jelena Telecki and what   

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Gallery 9 is fulfilling its original intention to exhibit Sydney and overseas based artists in Melbourne, in the same way the Gallery exhibits Melbourne based artists in its Sydney premises. The biennial Melbourne Art Fair provides one opportunity but this, a larger scale exhibition with fortyfivedownstairs offers these Gallery 9 artists both a moment to show together beyond the gallery’s familiar walls and a gateway directly into the Melbourne’s cultural hub.

Contemporary Painting presents the latest works of six artists whose individual practices involve, although not solely, painting. Collectively there is great diversity amongst these artists’ works and each artist in the exhibition was selected to present the multifarious approaches to painting being explored by contemporary artists. Aside from this intention to exhibit a wide range of painting, the exhibition does not inherently imply curatorial aims nor provide a catalogue essay describing one. However, in showing artists, all of whom Gallery 9 represent, it may be possible recognise curious and intriguing points of similarity between their works and these further reinforce why this particular grouping of artists has been chosen.

The exhibition will include figurative paintings by Jelena Telecki, semi abstracts by Julian Hooper and Tonee Messiah, conceptual abstract work by what and Simon Blau as well as non-objective painted objects by Suzie Idiens. These artists have received considerable critical acclaim and attracted curatorial interest from institutions within Melbourne.

Work by Simon Blau is held in the NGV Collection, and what and Tonee Messiah both have works in the Monash University Collection. In 2007, Julian Hooper’s major work Liliu (collection, Queensland Art Gallery) was exhibited in ‘All in an Afternoon’ at The MADA Gallery (formerly the Monash Faculty Gallery) and in 2012 he was included in ‘Post Planning’ curated by Bala Starr at the Ian Potter Museum of Art.

Viv Miller: exhibition – Outcomes 22 May – 15 June 2013

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Outcomes 22 May – 15 June 2013

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Gallery 9 is excited to announce a forthcoming exhibition of new work by Melbourne painter Viv Miller, the artist’s first solo exhibition in Sydney.

Miller works with painting, drawing and animation and confidently employs both representational and abstract approaches to form her distinct imagery. She draws influences from the natural world and sublime landscapes along with computer graphics and cell animation, with recognisable inflections of Japanese, as well as Western traditions. Explaining how much of her recent work has focussed on the sun, she considers it as an omnipresent force which nonetheless cannot be looked at directly. The sun’s sublime qualities render it an impossible subject and therefore perfect for Miller’s painterly enquiries. Miller also explains that she has attempted to develop ways to represent more ethereal qualities in her work, like air and spaciousness.  She makes no claim to having conquered these subjects, but instead allows them to  provide a source upon which to develop modes of her own painterly expression.

The exhibition at Gallery 9 will consist of large and small paintings and works on paper and acetate.  In these, intricate geometric patterns and shiny plastic textures play against more realistic and painterly passages.  The  imagery she develops appears both hand-worked and  synthetic, attesting to a broader consideration of our contemporary visual environment.
Currently living in Melbourne, Miller completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons. 1) at the University of South Australia and a Master of Visual Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts, UMelb where she is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Arts. Miller was a co-founder of artist-run gallery Downtown Art Space in Adelaide and in 2005/06 undertook a two year studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces.  Miller has exhibited with Neon Parc and Ryan Renshaw Gallery as well as a broad range of artist-run and government funded spaces. Her work is held in private collections in Australia and overseas as well as UBS, Brisbane;  Artbank, Macquarie Bank; Sydney and New York, BHP Billiton, Melbourne and Proclaim, Melbourne.

John Aslanidis: exhibition – 20 Mar – 13 Apr 2013

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Sonic Network no. 13: painting + sound installation (collaboration with Brian May)

Exhibition: 20 March – 13 April 2013

Art Month Event: John Aslanidis and Brian May in conversation – Saturday, 23 March 3pm

Gallery 9 is excited to welcome Melbourne based artist John Aslanidis back to Sydney for an exhibition of new work along side of his latest collaboration with Berlin based sound artist Brian May, Sonic Network no. 13.

[LEFT] Sonic Network no. 13 2013
oil and acrylic on canvas
244 x 305 cm

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In the creation of Aslanidis’ Sonic Network series, the artist uses sets of mathematical (algorithmic) intervals to structure the paintings’ compositions. These are relative to a symmetrical grid on each of the four panels which make up the whole. For these collaborations May considers the structural and compositional elements of Aslanidis’ paintings and emulates Aslanidis’ processes by responding to the moiré (wave-like) patterns. Furthermore he demonstrates the multiple sine waves’ interactions via audio interference. To interpret these sine waves May adapts a tonal range to represent the circular forms, geometric shapes, reverberating patterns and colours inherent to the paintings. Order and chaos are present in both the sound piece and the painting and the result is one of synergy between the analogue and digital mediums. Aslanidis explains his intention “is to create imagery with a sonic resonance where there is no start or end point. They capture a fragment of infinity and represent a sense of a perpetual change.”

John Aslanidis has collaborated with Brian May recently on a number of exhibitions: Sonic Network no. 8 at Melbourne arts centre The Substation (Nov, 2012), Sonic Network no. 9 at dr Julius–ap in Berlin (Oct 2011), at White Box in New York City (Mar 2012) and also at Kunsthalle Beacon (NY). Also in the USA in 2012, Aslanidis participated in an exhibition Emergence and Structure touring Pennsylvania and Florida. In the lead up to this exhibition Aslanidis has also recently completed a large scale painting commissioned by the Arts Centre Melbourne, Sonic Network no. 11 (2012) for Hamer Hall.