Perceptions and Perspectives

By Andrew Frost

Does being a woman bring a different perspective to being an artist and to the kind of art that is made? This question underscores the exhibition Perceptions and Perspectives that explores individual approaches to various styles and genres of art making, both figurative and abstract. Following on from a number of recent exhibitions that have explored similar questions, the exhibition itself is a bit of a conundrum since the works propose a more ambiguous answer.

Including both King Street Gallery artists and invited others, the exhibition includes the work of Alison Locke, whose large-scale images skirt the abstracted perceptual line between painting and photography. The delicate drapery of works such as Untitled [SixOne] transform a symbol of domesticity into a gorgeous filed of colour while Dai Li’s drawings and sculptures are playful depictions of femininity. Sandra Curry’s hard edge abstracts similarly contrast with Jenny Bell’s landscapes: where Curry’s canvases hint at mythological stories in their titles – and perhaps by extension a connection between the exhibition’s curatorial question – Bell’s bucolic scenes of Australian countryside propose a far more quotidian point of view.

Until February 15

King Street Gallery on William, Darlinghurst

Pic: Alison Locke, Untitled [SixOne], 2013. C type print, 100x120cm.