Painting - Look - Brisbane Art Galleries
People who say that there is no such thing as bad art are lying. LOOK takes an objective view of the subjective world and, with a free drink in our hand, guides you through Brisbane's best galleries and art exhibitions. From institutions to artist-run initiatives, installation to illustration, photography to painting, LOOK is an ongoing document of Brisbane's ever engaging and growing arts culture.
Bryan Spier: Dots and Pithy Sequences
Bryan Spier is making math rock cool again through the medium of painting. Not that math rock ever became that uncool, now it's just even more erratic and unpredictable - aka cool-er. Armed with a swagger of masking tape, brushes, colour, and a keen ear for psych and krautrock, Spier works with the impeccable precision of a lone swordsman, creating frightful geometric paintings in his exhibition Dots and Pithy Sequences.
Time Over Yield, Brandon Specht
Visual junkies: looking for an art show to capture the full extent of your aesthetic attention span? Bat your lashes no further than Brandon Specht's debut exhibition tomorrow night.
Specht's creations are a plethora of abstract formations, vanished surfaces and pools of colour. Playing outside the conventional with hardly a brush-mark in sight he mixes enamel, acrylic and water-based paints together at different stages of the drying process.
Chris Langlois
Whoever said postrocking and shoegazing were out of style must have had their wires crossed with, I don't know, lets say steampunk or nüfunk. Christopher Langlois, who is showing his paintings at Heiser Gallery starting this weekend, will tell you postrock's equivalent in painting really is where the dime's being shined.
Rob Scott and Georg
Att: Sleepless night stalkers and scavengers.
Re: Two of Brisbane's illest painters under one roof.
If you haven't had much of a chance to check out what's happening at NineLives, now is the perfect chance to stumble up those narrow stairs above Mellino's and check out what they've been up to.
S(K)INFUL
Calling all goddesses, sirens, pin ups and glamazons: a lustrous tribute is being made to you right now at a delightful gallery in Paddington. It's a bit tribal, it's a bit cheeky, it's playful and it's definitely vibrant and seductive. A smile emerges out of the corner of our mouth just taking a peek at these spirited pieces.
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Once upon a time watercolour felt very feeble and inferior as an artistic medium. It just sat there all forlorn and dried up in its packet; a real lonely little mixture of pigment particles and surfactant. It experienced just one moment of exhilaration in its lifetime, when it was mixed with water and spread gently over the canvas.
Jack E. Pemble
It was surprisingly hard to track down any information about this remarkable artist called Jack Pemble. All we've got for you this time around is basic demographic information like: Jack Pemble lives in Brisbane. Jack Pemble studies at the Queensland College of Art. Jack Pemble is twenty-one years old.
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