BORDERLINE (beyond a rational aesthetic) Curated by Laurence Noga

21 Feb-22 Mar 2015

Overview

Jake Clark, Katrina Blannin, Tim Renshaw, John Crossley, David J Batchelor, Sophia Starling, Laurence Noga, Alexis Harding, Paul Verheul. The artists in this show explore borderlines through a geometry of boundaries. They ask questions about their comfort zones and question the in-between through an expanded notion of painting. That expanded notion often takes an intuitive or anti-intuitive position between two conditions, which impacts on the density of surface facture, and allows judgement in breaking of a system. There is a deliberate provocation through flatness uneasily composing itself with what it sits upon, or a mechanistic strategy that is hard won, testing viscosity and matter through protracted physical engagement. The atmosphere and specificity of colour realign the reading of the works, asking questions of the site as a model for the in-between, shifting the idea into material form, asking transformative questions of space and place.