Group Show : So Red It Looks Black

  • COMA is pleased to present a group presentation, titled ‘So Red It Looks Black’, on view 20 October – 25 November 2023, at the Chippendale gallery. Featured artists include Jack Lanagan Dunbar, Erica Mao, Jared McGriff, Nabilah Nordin, Madeline Peckenpaugh, Shan Turner-Carroll and Li Wang.

     

    Utilising ways-of-seeing and perspective shifts to assess how intimate moments and ideas of closeness become all-encompassing. So Red It Looks Black acts as an access point to the density of feeling and how this is communicated. Presenting a group of artists that address instances of personal significance, this closeness to the creator and their individual circumstance allows a viewer to not only access and rationalise, but also empathise and in-turn possibly desire, or detest. Looking at contemporary art-making as multifaceted and crossing conceptual and material borders, the inevitable conglomeration of ideas and images is a thickness difficult to penetrate. 

     
  • Acting as evocative reminders and warnings of complacency in navigating the world in a superficial and surface-level manner, the artworks...
    Madeline Peckenpaugh
    Overgrown, 2023
    oil on canvas
    150 x 150 cm / 60 x 60 inches

    Acting as evocative reminders and warnings of complacency in navigating the world in a superficial and surface-level manner, the artworks of this exhibition communicate the personal stories and emotions of each artist, encouraging the same level of introspection and openness of the viewer. The exhibition posits that at the nexus of each work, is both a visual and psychological density, a build and layering of conceptual and material objective, that can be found only if the viewer is willing to look close enough.

     

    Through various mediums and practices, each artist conduct enquiries into their own personal lives and broader shared narratives, offering a unique and vulnerable glimpse into their different lived experiences, whether that be through an imaginate landscape, distillation of personal memories, illustrations of the self or the construction of material.

  • So as to encompass but not overwhelm, the exhibition indulges in physical space between the artworks, allowing each work to...
    Li Wang
    State Fair, 2023
    oil on canvas
    122 x 91.5 cm / 48 x 36 inches
    So as to encompass but not overwhelm, the exhibition indulges in physical space between the artworks, allowing each work to retain its own unique sense of artistic intimacy, allowing the viewer to come to an abstract understanding of the importance of artistic expression and self-interrogation, whereby an understanding and celebration of vulnerability and the knowing of oneself begins to emerge.
  • So Red it Looks Black allows glimpses into what it means to be connected, and, what the layered emotional density...
    Erica Mao
    Green House, 2023
    ceramic
    25.4 x 30.5 x 14 cm / 10 x 12 x 5 1/2 inches
    So Red it Looks Black allows glimpses into what it means to be connected, and, what the layered emotional density of humanness looks like in a contemporary world.
    • Madeline Peckenpaugh Overgrown, 2023 oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm 59 x 59 in
      Madeline Peckenpaugh
      Overgrown, 2023
      oil on canvas
      150 x 150 cm
      59 x 59 in
    • Li Wang State Fair, 2023 oil on canvas 121 x 92 cm 47 5/8 x 36 1/4 in
      Li Wang
      State Fair, 2023
      oil on canvas
      121 x 92 cm
      47 5/8 x 36 1/4 in
    • Erica Mao Green House, 2023 Ceramic 25.4 x 30.5 x 14 cm
      Erica Mao
      Green House, 2023
      Ceramic
      25.4 x 30.5 x 14 cm
    • Nabilah Nordin Romance, 2023 structural plywood, epoxy modelling compound, cast aluminium, automotive paint 330.2 x 142.2 x 177.8 cm 130 x 56 x 70 in
      Nabilah Nordin
      Romance, 2023
      structural plywood, epoxy modelling compound, cast aluminium, automotive paint
      330.2 x 142.2 x 177.8 cm
      130 x 56 x 70 in
    • Jared Mcgriff The Jarring Brevity Of This Moment, 2023 oil on canvas
      Jared Mcgriff
      The Jarring Brevity Of This Moment, 2023
      oil on canvas
    • Jared Mcgriff That Night Auntie And Sis Was At The Water, 2023 oil on canvas
      Jared Mcgriff
      That Night Auntie And Sis Was At The Water, 2023
      oil on canvas
    • Erica Mao Sky Opens Up, 2023 Oil on panel 61 x 76.2 cm
      Erica Mao
      Sky Opens Up, 2023
      Oil on panel
      61 x 76.2 cm
    • Shan Turner-Carroll Jump Jump Jump, 2023 Mixed Media 88 x 78 x 58 cm
      Shan Turner-Carroll
      Jump Jump Jump, 2023
      Mixed Media
      88 x 78 x 58 cm
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