Kristy Gorman's 'drawn' at Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland
Opening Tuesday 14 November, 5.30 - 7.30pm
Exhibition: 15 November - 2 December 2017
Folding, shifting and overlapping - geometric inhabitants of indefinite scale drift and dwell in pale spaces. Expanding
hexagons, tilting stripes, crystal-like structures and even harlequin patterns are carefully painted by this subtle yet
accomplished painter and realised in her refined and precise style. Parallelograms permute, hexagons slowly solidify and
bands of colour are repeated. Patterns and constructions are formed from small shapes, areas of colour, voids and
traces. Like secret signals, shards march upright and flag-forms drop, creating a language of mathematical semaphores.
Gently adding, sometimes subtracting colour, KRISTY GORMAN's paintings are lightly layered and layered again.
Primed and prepared board is the product of a gradual building up of surface, a light ground. With her new body of work,
Gorman adds veils of muslin, stretching, subtracting and distorting them across the surface - pushing and pulling them
into submission to create new forms - a new and unique drawing language.
Fractured glimpses of forms encourage one to linger, we are invited to look and look again. Testaments to complexity and
restraint, Gorman's paintings are contemplative and tremendously subtle. Teetering, they are ephemeral, yet evocative-
they resist fixed meanings. They function as exquisite vestiges and we are beckoned to witness painstaking details,
empty spaces, alluring colours and cunning configurations.
Due to overwhelming demand HENRIETTA HARRIS | I GAVE YOU ALL THE CLUES
has been extended by a week. Ends this Saturday 11th November at 3pm.
Please note that Melanie Roger Gallery has relocated to 444 Karangahape Rd in Newton. The gallery continues to work with
its roster of both established and emerging artists with an exciting line up of exhibitions planned for 2017 and beyond.
We thank all our artists, clients and friends of the gallery for supporting us at our Herne Bay location and we look
forward to welcoming you to our new space!
Melanie Roger Gallery, 444 Karangahape Rd, Newton, Auckland
Wednesday - Friday 11 - 4pm & Saturday 11 - 3pm, or by appointment
info@melanierogergallery.com
www.melanierogergallery.com
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