17 February to 14 March 2022
115 Hay St Subiaco
I had my first solo show in 1966 and in every year since, one thing has obsessed me…… the potential of geometric abstraction and optical colour, as a means of artistic expression.
Artist Statement:
In 2020, the Mossenson Gallery planned an exhibition to be called The Pandemic Effect-Twelve Months Lockdown in an Artist’s Studio. The show would track the effect of isolation on my work. We naively believed that the Pandemic would wane and life would soon return to normal. This show would document a significant moment in my career. But it was not a moment. The pandemic went on and on into 2021 and remains an omnipresent shadow over the immediate future. And in my studio the Pandemic Effect continued.
I had my first solo show in 1966 and in every year since, one thing has obsessed me…… the potential of geometric abstraction and optical colour, as a means of artistic expression.
But that search took me in many directions, many experiments in composition. What the isolation of lockdown did was prompt a backward look at some of these diverse directions and experiments as starting points for new experiments in visual expression. That was the Pandemic Effect which began in 2020, continued in 2021 and goes on into 2022. The result is a melange of works, all firmly anchored in geometric abstraction but in groups, whose varied compositions emphasize the diversity possible within the discipline demanded by that mode of expression- a fact ignored be those who dismiss geometric abstraction as clinical and without emotional power. This Lockdown Melange refutes that superficial judgement.
Col Jordan