Group Show
COMA is pleased to present Crushed Bone / Wet Rock. Bringing together six artists from differing locations, the exhibition tracks mutual malaise and uncertainty regarding emotion, knowledge and experience in the context of modes and places of living. Looking at the effect that physical positioning has on contemporary art making, this presentation surveys narrative through setting – whether it be grotesque, picturesque, gaudy, urban or fictional.
Empathetic perspectives have become a platform for artists besieged by labels and legacy to tease out and reshape their own personal experience. Cross continental shifts and interactions in a piecemeal process of desubjectification consolidate a slew of individually paralysed yet collectively fragmented viewpoints.
The artists in Crushed Bone / Wet Rock have addressed their own vague identity and role-playing in the included artworks to establish a type of mutual and universal consensus. Here we see a peripatetic self-consciousness and its ability to expose a practitioner to the idea of conjoined worlds where the influence of a grounded physical location and the thought of another at a distance become one.
Artists included are Madison Bycroft, Chen Zhou, Liam Denny, Tania Franco Klein, Jamie O’Connell and Justin Williams.
Justin Williams
Held tightly (grey), 2020
oil on canvas
46.5 x 30.5 cm / 18 5/16 x 12 inches
Justin Williams
Oswald on white horse, 2020
oil on canvas
142.5 x 123.5 cm / 56 3/16 x 48 5/8 inches
Justin Williams
Wolfhound interior, 2020
oil on canvas
142.5 x 123.5 / 56 3/16 x 48 5/8 inches
Chen Zhou
SIGhostNAL, 2018
digital video file HD 2160p
7min 23sec
Chen Zhou
SIGhostNAL, 2018
digital video file HD 2160p
7min 23sec
Jamie O'Connell
Untitled (Date Palm Study) #3, 2018
pencil on tracing paper, collage
38 x 30 cm
Jamie O'Connell
Untitled (Date Palm Study) #5, 2018
pencil on tracing paper, collage
38 x 30 cm
Jamie O'Connell
Untitled (Date Palm Study) #6, 2018
pencil on tracing paper, collage
38 x 30 cm
Jamie O'Connell
Untitled (Date Palm Study) #9, 2018
pencil on tracing paper, collage
38 x 30 cm
Liam Denny
Townhouse, 2020
bronze, Kuari pine, powder coated steel
22 x 12 x 10 cm
Liam Denny
Townhouse, 2020
bronze, Kuari pine, powder coated steel
22 x 12 x 10 cm
Tania Franco Klein
Woman, Palm tree (self-portrait), 2020
decal installation, edition 1 of 7
100 x 125
Tania Franco Klein
The Waiting, 2016
archival pigment print
50 x 75 cm
Tania Franco Klein
Dr Mabuse and Me (Self-Portrait), 2020
archival pigment print
80 x 100 cm
Madison Bycroft
Composed body 4, 2017
pastel chalk, pigment
29.7 x 21 cm
Madison Bycroft
Composed body 3, 2017
pastel chalk, pigment
29.7 x 21 cm
Madison Bycroft
Composed body 2, 2017
pastel chalk, pigment
29.7 x 21 cm
Madison Bycroft
Composed body 1, 2017
pastel chalk, pigment
22 x 15 cm
Madison Bycroft
Composed body (inherent vice) 3, 2020
pastel chalk, pigment, gold gilding paint
59.4 x 42 cm
Madison Bycroft
Composed body (inherent vice) 2, 2020
pastel chalk, pigment, gold gilding paint
59.4 x 42 cm
Madison Bycroft
Composed body (inherent vice) 1, 2020
pastel chalk, pigment, gold gilding paint
59.4 x 42 cm
