Lee Goreas’ painting approaches the medium as a vehicle for social communication, employing narrative and non-narrative strategies including series and multiple-format works whose configuration changes over time. The elimination of painterly persona and the proposal of a mundane, assembly-line approach is intended to subvert painting’s iconic authority, authenticity and originality and address commodification and the mass production of thought and behaviour. This strategy has led Goreas to move towards media outside of painting including text and pre-printed balloons. Eaun Macdonald’s work attempts to get outside the restriction of the language and conventions of the discipline of painting. His current work employs subtle borrowings from the imagery of popular culture, through the references remain ambiguous. Macdonald draws on photography, television, film as well as his immediate urban environment. Thought conceived and presented as paintings, his work frequently involves the use of “unpainterly” materials such as sheet metal, paper, fabric, glass, and spray paint. Darren Millington’s painting proposes a heightened awareness of frozen moments of perception. His paintings explore the relationship of image to individual and collective memory. By balancing and juxtaposing repeated imagery the processing, significance metaphoric interpretation of a collective memory constructed in between the significant events of individual lives is elucidated.
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Thursday, February 29, 1996 to Friday, March 29, 1996
Lee Goreas’ painting approaches the medium as a vehicle for social communication, employing narrative and non-narrative strategies including series and multiple-format works whose configuration changes over time. The elimination of painterly persona and the proposal of a mundane, assembly-line approach is intended to subvert painting’s iconic authority, authenticity and originality and address commodification and the mass production of thought and behaviour. This strategy has led Goreas to move towards media outside of painting including text and pre-printed balloons. Eaun Macdonald’s work attempts to get outside the restriction of the language and conventions of the discipline of painting. His current work employs subtle borrowings from the imagery of popular culture, through the references remain ambiguous. Macdonald draws on photography, television, film as well as his immediate urban environment. Thought conceived and presented as paintings, his work frequently involves the use of “unpainterly” materials such as sheet metal, paper, fabric, glass, and spray paint. Darren Millington’s painting proposes a heightened awareness of frozen moments of perception. His paintings explore the relationship of image to individual and collective memory. By balancing and juxtaposing repeated imagery the processing, significance metaphoric interpretation of a collective memory constructed in between the significant events of individual lives is elucidated.