Gallery Two
Kendal Heyes
Polynesia
New Paintings on Velvet
Friday 2 – Saturday 17 September
Artist Talk: Saturday 17 September from 3pm
These paintings connect to visual experiences associated with Polynesia, in particular, the paintings on velvet of Polynesian women by Edgar Leeteg, popular in the 1930’s and 40’s, and tapa cloth works, especially the freehand works from Samoa and Niue.
These paintings take from both Leeteg and the Polynesian artists an emphasis on optical effects as an aspect of painting. And like the tapa cloth works they take the form Rosalind Krauss identifies as centripetal grids: ‘Concentrating on the surface of the work as something complete and internally organized,’(1) each work consists of a series of departures and variations of the grid that frames it.
(1) Rosalind Krauss, Grids, October, Vol. 9 (Summer, 1979), p63
Image: Kendal Heyes, Polynesia #10, 2016, oil and crushed marble on velvet, 120 x 91.4cm. Photo: Kendal Heyes
List of Works
1. Polynesia #5, 2015, oil and crushed marble on velvet, 122 x 92cm
$2,800.00
2. Polynesia #4, 2015, oil and crushed marble on velvet, 122 x 92cm
$2,800.00
3. Polynesia #6, 2015, oil and crushed marble on velvet, 122 x 92cm
$2,800.00
4 – 13. Polynesia Sketches: ix, viii, iii, v, vi, xii, i, iv, xi, x, 2016, Inkjet prints on Ilford Galerie paper, 29.7 x 21cm, edition of 10 $80.00 each
14. Polynesia #10, 2015, oil and crushed marble on velvet, 122 x 92cm
$2,800.00
15. Polynesia #13, 2015, oil and crushed marble on velvet, 56 x 46cm
$640.00
16. Polynesia #2, 2015, oil and crushed marble on velvet, 122 x 92cm
$2,800.00
17. Polynesia #3, 2015, oil and crushed marble on velvet, 122 x 92cm
$2,800.00
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