Posted on Thursday 5-7-2007
THE AVA
in partnership with Spier
invites you to three solo exhibitions
Mary-Rose Hendrikse
Mostly portraits
Catherine Price
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Paul Painting
Recent paintings
opening at 6 pm
Monday, 9 July 2007
Exhibition closes on Friday, 27 July 2007 at 1 o clock pm
Mary-Rose Hendrikse (b 1963) completed her Batchelor of fine arts at the university of South Africa in 1998 and has gone on to exhibit nationally and internationally. Hendrikse was one of the top twelve finalists in the Winsor and Newton Worldwide Millennium painting competition and twice finalist for the Brett Kebble awards. Hendrikse recent body of paintings entitled MOSTLY PORTRAITS will employ the Main Gallery. This body of work reflects an ongoing preoccupation with the human face, its corporeal and psychological expressions. Hendrikse embraces the inherently volatile language of oil paint and rebels against the urge to subdue it as is often seen in traditional portraiture.
Mary-Rose Hendrikse - Mark Divided
Oil on Canvas 2007
Catherine Price's ceramic installation A000001-A825491 fills the Long gallery. Price (b 1968) completed her Batchelor of Fine Art at Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2006. This body of work was informed by a visit to an abattoir in 2005. Price started working instinctively juxtaposing cattle hair and bones with white clay formed into hand basins, pouring bowls and soap dishes. The impact of the work lies in its ability to seduce and repulse the viewer.
Catherine Price - Untitled I
Installation - Stoneware, Cattle Hair,
Cattle Bone, Wax, Salt, Wire, Glue. 2007
Paul Painting has always found the full nude a powerful, primal icon, more so when stripped of artifice and innuendo, any hint of eroticism pared down to matter of fact objectivity. (b 1974) he studied graphic design at Wits Technikon an embarked on a full time painting career in 2006 the fruits of which form his first Solo exhibition in the AVA Artsstrip.
Paul Painting - Profile I
Oil on Canvas 2006
Gallery hours: Weekdays 10h00 to 17h00. Saturdays: 10h00 to 13h00
Enquiries:
AVA tel: 021 424 7436,
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