Depthless Flatness

TUESDAY 6-8PM JULY 22nd 2014
INCIDENTS ABOVE A BAR
The Alderman
134 Lygon Street
Brunswick VIC 3056
curated by Steven Rendall & Bryan Spier

Rendall & Spier introduce Depthless Flatness as the inaugural exhibition for the Incidents Above a Bar project.

Depthless Flatness collects together the work of eight artists. The exhibition shows the result of a series of conversations between Rendall & Spier regarding aspects of range, spacing, differentiation, depth of meaning and flatness of surface in relation to what it means to paint today.

Building on a comment by Vito Acconci that there is a bias towards depth in Western culture, and that range could be just as good as depth, Rendall & Spier exchanged a series of views about painting, exhibiting and curating today. This exhibition is a partially distorted reflection of those views: a way of drawing upon the working conditions and parameters of the selected artists in relation to range and depth, flatness and the contradiction of the depthless.

Danica Chappell
Andrea Eckersley
Danny Frommer
Madeline Kidd
Sam Martin
Dionisia Salas
Hayden Stuart
Mark Wingrave