Directors of The Gallery Eumundi, Karen and Steve Beardsley, recently welcomed excited contemporary art lovers to the gallery on the opening night of the new group show Neo Non-objective.
Collaboratively curated with Studio 26, showcasing minimalistic non-objective reductive, abstraction works by four talented and innovative local artists, Jaime Kiss, Petalia Humphreys, Michael Ciavarella and June Sartracom.
Guest speaker, Dr Kellie O’Dempsey, renowned educator, visual artist and installation aficionado, officially opened the show with eloquent and considered reviews of the works.
Each artist’s work was meticulously observed by Dr O’Dempsey.
“Michael’s work reveals his construction experience as a tradie, displaying beautifully finished semiotic objects paired with subtle conversations of colour and tone creating what could be described as a language of cyphers,“ she said.
“We are blessed to be witness to Petalia’s ongoing debate with the reordering of architectural space. Creating both formalist and playful illusions, her work both challenges and seduces us with clean angles in delicious rich hues of pinks, blacks and the occasional deep blue.
“In a homage to modernist Italian design, Jaime’s considered kinetic constructions are a conversation or a performance of the monochromatic that invites us, the audience, into a sensual and an experiential visual encounter.
“As does the quietly sophisticated works of June Sartracom. This work metamorphizes the flat into the sensitive, presenting the canvas as sculptural relief. When engaging with June’s work in a sea of white we are left with a state of calm considering the unique mathematical puzzle she has offered us.“
The audience was swept along by the prose complimenting the stunning, geometrical, monochromatic forms.
The works of these four artists sit perfectly alone or alongside each other reflecting the beauty of the simple.
What a night of education and thought-provoking journeys of the history and presence of non-objective abstraction.
To appreciate and contemplate the calmness and quietness of the works and your place amongst them, the gallery directors invite you to immerse yourself in the gallery space, open until Sunday 20 November.
Find The Gallery Eumundi at 6/32 Hastings Street, Noosa Heads.
The exhibition can also be viewed online at thegalleryeumundi.com.au/event/neo-non-objective/
