Fever Dreams
27 May — 9 Jul
2023
Counihan Gallery
233 Sydney Road,
Brunswick VIC 3056
Kerbstone (Detail), 2022, 36 × 28cm, Oil on Archival Gessoboard
Fever Dreams explores the fertile and shifting borderlands between abstraction and figuration. In the work of ten contemporary artists, figuration swells and ebbs away. Figuration surfaces here and there like alligators from the hot dark of the swamp.
Colour is lurid and mutable. It is the catalyst for the combustion of figurative imagery out of abstraction. Colour is also the vehicle by which that imagery becomes alien and elusive.
Nothing is stable in Fever Dreams. The works offer a fertile playground of shifting visions. In these visions, uncertainty and ambiguity are positive, even optimistic properties.
Things that should not have been forgotten 2022, 36 × 28cm, Oil on Archival Gessoboard
Ingmar Apinis,
Naomi Bishop,
Mitchel Brannan,
Harley Ives,
Luke Kind,
Elyss McCleary,
Ted McKinday,
Valentina Palonen,
Bundit Puangthong
and Paul Yore.
Curated by Mitchel Brannan.
Fever Dreams
27 May — 9 Jul
2023
Counihan Gallery
233 Sydney Road,
Brunswick VIC 3056
Kerbstone (Detail), 2022, 36 × 28cm, Oil on Archival Gessoboard
Kerbstone, 2022, 36 × 28cm, Oil on Archival Gessoboard
Unified Field, 2022, 61 × 45cm, Oil on Archival gessoboard
