Adrian Baiada Elyss McCleary Mignon Steele

The Egg & Dart presents recent works by three abstract painters. Adrian Baiada and Mignon Steele join invited Melbourne artist Elyss McCleary for Otherworldly. Their works variously summon vivid densities and atmospherics through gesture and overlay. Each artist uses the brush to build marks, synthesise layers then knock back and resurrect depth. Surprising colour associations emerge, unfurling landscape spaces where the transcendental exists within the everyday.
The show brings together three divergent approaches that adjust our spatial understanding in landscape painting. With Otherworldly, we expect an immersion into a shifting realm of spatial colour as our eyes move from one sensibility to another.

The Egg & Dart, Shop 2, 1-3 Raymond Road, Thirroul, NSW, 2515 | (02) 4268-4885

Wednesday, September 25, 201910:00 AM
Saturday, October 19, 20193:00 PM

https://www.egganddart.com.au/exhibitions-1/2019/9/25/otherworldly-adrian-baiada-elyss-mcclearey-and-mignon-steele

Elyse McCleary,4:40pm Sof Eyelids, we wereRunning and Jumping around the Creek, oil on linen, 2019

Elyss McCleary | The Pinkness | 17.01.19 - 09.02.19

Tristian Koenig is delighted to announce the launch of the gallery’s 2019 exhibition program with The Pinkness - a solo exhibition of new works by Melbourne-based painter Elyss McCleary. McCleary has previously exhibited at the gallery in the group exhibition The Means Make the Ends, with The Pinkness being her first solo project with the gallery.

Elyss McCleary paints from within a vein of lyrical abstraction that is descriptive, as opposed to the proscriptive tenets implied by the quasi-movement within early post-war painting. Fusing memory with materiality, expressive haptics with Art History, along the way McCleary orchestrates a form of physical activity and moving meditation that is both fast and slow, soft and hard, viscous and unyielding.

The titles of her works veer between evocations of the quotidian and passing, to contemplative archetypal spaces - where seagulls spying hot chips are juxtaposed next to mystical snakes slithering across the sky. Linked by a uniformity of scale, the works share uncanny combinations of hue and thinly veiled and translucent brushwork, with the resultant effect creating a curious circularity - one can clearly demarcate where gestures start and end, overlap and merge, however the works defy an identification of start and end. This effect of eluding elucidation is the mystery of Painting.

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Elyss McCleary, Orchestra of Pink, oil on linen, 140cm x 125.5cm, 2018

Otherworldly at the Egg&Dart

The Pinkness at Tristian Koenig Gallery