Artabase New Exhibitions

Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront at The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA

anonymous — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:12:31 +0000

Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront is a major, eight-month initiative that will bring together teams of architects, engineers, and landscape designers to address and create infrastructure solutions to make New York City more resilient in response to rising water levels and to protect endangered eco-systems.

Tim Burton at ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image

anonymous — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:00:01 +0000

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) joins Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2010 with an Australian exclusive exhibition direct from The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

re:render

anonymous — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:58:30 +0000

an exhibition of computer generated 3D works and pen and ink drawings

Something Else at Freshly Baked Gallery

anonymous — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:17:42 +0000

This six-artist set is the final in a series of tangibly virtual group shows from Freshly Baked Gallery. New works on wood, paper and canvas by ground-breaking Australian and New Zealand artists form a collection that is truly "Something Else"...

Art Break

anonymous — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:45:58 +0000

Joint Council Access for All Abilities presents Art Break - A collection of works created by participants during JCAAA's Holiday Arts for Adults program.

KATE ROHDE at Karen Woodbury Gallery

anonymous — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:09:02 +0000

Kate Rohde’s upcoming solo exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery is her first commercial exhibition in Melbourne. The work for the exhibition is largely inspired by a three month residency in 2008 as a creator-in residence at Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan. Decorative wood carvings of zen and shinto shrines in Kamakura and Nikko were particularly influential.

Outcasting at Outcasting

anonymous — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:39:02 +0000

Season 10 of Outcasting features work by Antonello Faretta, Gregor Rozanski, Kim Walker, Louise Adkins, Marianna & Daniel O’Reilly, Pascual Sisto, Dana Cooley, Rebecca Lennon, Tetsushi Higashino & Tina Willgren. Seasons 4 - 9 will be available in the Archive section.

doppelganger at National Portrait Gallery

anonymous — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:50:57 +0000

doppelgänger is the second in a series of virtual exhibitions held by the National Portrait Gallery that explore contemporary notions of portraiture in the online realm. Based in Second Life the exhibition features the work of five artists interested in exploring the concepts of constructed self, beauty and likeness, truth and illusion in self representation.

Dwell

lauren — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:28:55 +0000

Dwell is an exhibition that explores what goes on behind the backlit curtain, the shut door at night and the transient, temporary inhabitation of public places to reveal the quiet tension that exists in suburbia. With slight voyeuristic curiosity and her camera, Lauren Hewitt captures the inhabited spaces of our everyday lives.

PAUL SLOAN at Until Never

anonymous — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:48:31 +0000

Paul Sloan studied painting at R.M.I.T in Melbourne where he received a bachelor of visual arts, honours. In 2008 he was also offered a residency in Shangai and exhibition in Dublin. Paul Sloan has exhibited widely in Australia and also in London, Prague, Dublin, & Shanghai. His work is held in private and public collections.

Super Human at RMIT Gallery

RMIT Gallery — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:26:04 +0000

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s Evolution of Species, RMIT Gallery and ANAT present Super Human, an exhibition dwelling on technology, the body and the relationship between the two.

Polixeni Papapetrou at Nellie Castan Gallery

anonymous — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:17:12 +0000

Polixeni Papapetrou's fascination with masks was first revealed in her series Phantomwise, 2002. In her most recent work, Between Worlds, she adopts the animal mask to explore the magical affinity that children have with animals.

Graham Guerra at Nellie Castan Gallery

anonymous — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:14:46 +0000

A recent series of drawings representing an amalgamation of both ideologically and ascetically conflicted subject matter and media.

China Daily at fortyfivedownstairs

fortyfivedownstairs — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:35:04 +0000

Chinese Contemporary Art Consultants (ccartc) brings everyday China to Melbourne’s door. After the April success of Yang Yongliang’s premier Australian exhibition ‘On the Quiet Water’ ccartc is excited to continue to bring dynamic contemporary Chinese art to the Melbourne.

In Your Face at fortyfivedownstairs

fortyfivedownstairs — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:27:14 +0000

In Your Face is a series of portraits of the residents of a Rooming House in St Kilda, Melbourne. It is a study of faces, gnarled and worn, frantic and joyful, faces perhaps rarely appreciated and often overlooked in the western world.

“The Russian Ark and Turkish Tales” by Pamela Irving at Pamela Irving Studio + Gallery

anonymous — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:25:59 +0000

Mosaics and Paintings on paper inspired by her residency in St Petersburg, Russia, and presentation at the International Association of Contemporary Mosaics’ Conference 2008 in Turkey

First Aid for Birds / Wanswan at Guildford Lane Gallery

Guildford Lane Gallery — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:58:45 +0000

Artists Jennifer Lea and Melissa Koh explore their identity, memory and belonging in their respective shows at theGuildford Lane Gallery.

This Annoying Life at Lamington Drive

anonymous — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:36:52 +0000

Hurrah! Angst returns to the gallery walls! This Annoying Life will feature original drawings, many of which have appeared in The Age, alongside high quality prints, rarely-seen sketches and a healthy slew of occasionally funny cartoons, all laced with the bitter bile of modern angst

Slight Inclusions at Lamington Drive

anonymous — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:59:15 +0000

Slight Inclusions comprises a collection of Kat Macleod's original drawings, and features pieces from commissions by publications such as Vogue Entertaining + Travel, The Cocktail and Real Simple Magazine. Macleod's works have been exhibited in their raw form, complete with unique imperfections that are typically cut for commercial purposes.

SIMRYN GILL: INLAND at Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP)

anonymous — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:33:50 +0000

_Simryn Gill: Inland_ is a survey of photography and takes place in a photography gallery. It is important to declare at the outset, that while photography forms a significant and wondrous part of her practice, Simryn Gill does not consider herself a photographer.