Sunday 11 December 2016

TWINS


Acrylic, ink and Posca on board, 2016. [diptych / dimensions variable]

These paintings were made for display in a group show at Articulate Project Space, Leichhardt.

TWINS is a revision of the first mirrored pair I made in 2015 during my MFA titled Situs Inversus. Utilizing my now refined geometries while reworking a known outcome, using the same colour scheme was an enjoyable exercise and I am happy with the (updated) result.

Articulate Turns Six is on until the 24th of December and includes work by: Adrian Hall, Adrian Hobbs, Alan Schacher/Mike Leggett, Alexandra Mitchell, Anke Stäcker, Anya Pesce, Barbara Halnan, Cecilia White, Chantal Grech, Christine Myerscough, Danica Knezevic, Elizabeth Ashburn, Elizabeth Day, Jennifer O’Brien, John von Sturmer, Julie Brooke, Kirsten Drewes/Elizabeth Rankin, Lesley Giovanelli, Liz Coats, Margaret Roberts, Marlene Sarroff, Marta Ferracin, Niall Robb, Nola Farman, Noelene Lucas, Pam Leung, Paul Sutton, Raw Contemporary (Ryuichi Fujimura, Linda Luke, Gideon Payten-Griffiths, Kirsten Packham, Angela French, Renay Pepita), Ro Murray, Rose Ann McGreevy, Rox de luca, Steven Fasan, Sue Callanan, Susan Buret, Sylvia Griffin, Vivienne Dadour, Toni Warburton and Yvette Hamilton.

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Saturday 19 November 2016

RE-ATTEMPTS


Mutant, acrylic, ink and posca on board, 2016. [40 x 30 cm]


RE-ATTEMPTS is a group exhibition to be held at gWilson Gallery, Lewisham and opening on Sunday 20th November 3-6pm.

I will be showing new work made recently at 411 studios.

Also included in the exhibition is work by Ciaran Begley, Priscilla Bourne, Simon Lawrence, and Kasane Low.

Thanks to Ciaran Begley and Priscilla Bourne for organizing it all.

The exhibition will run until the 4th of December 2016.

©ADG2016

Monday 17 October 2016

Ogre



Acrylic and ink on board. [40 x 30 cm]

The second in a new series of paintings. A strange hypnotic flow of free association.

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Friday 16 September 2016

Joker


Acrylic, ink and spray paint on board. [40 x 30 cm]

New work / odd face.

This is the first painting I have finished after moving in to my new studio. It took some time to set up my work-space, but I am really feeling at home there now. After finishing this first piece I look forward to building a new series, upon such a foundation.

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Tuesday 9 August 2016

Unknown Potential




Acrylic, ink, coloured pencil and marker pen on binder board.


These studies continue from drawings that were focused on thinking about patterned coloured grounds and utilize a known technique working with marker pens.

Starting the pattern with a straight line at the top, moving down line by line and alternating through a series of colours repeatedly. As the pattern progresses the lines begin to form natural waves as your hand wobbles tracing the previous line across the surface.

The results of placing two knowns together produce an offspring rich with unknown potentials.

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Friday 1 July 2016

Test Patterns




Digital vector graphics with colour ramp.

These patterns are digital experiments that continue from drawings previously made with coloured pencil. Here the focus is on whole shapes or negative spaces, while looking at how they interact and overlap. Static images that stand still like television test cards, used to assist viewers in the calibration of their TV set.

Sustaining this work has altered my understanding of composition, within the restrictions of the isometric geometry, and I continue with the intention that these techniques will be applied to painting.

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Monday 27 June 2016

Fixed Air


Fixed Air, 2015 (Acrylic and ink on board). [115x60cm]

This was the final painting I made during my MFA, and was shown in the graduate exhibition held in December 2015 at the SCA galleries. Utilizing the vocabulary developed during my studio research, I feel this painting is the culmination of everything I learned. 

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Wednesday 15 June 2016

La Boîte-en-téléphone





8.0 Mpx iPhoneography.


I always liked the idea of Marcel Duchamp's La Boîte-en-valise (Box in a Suitcase), a leather suitcase containing miniature replicas and photographic reproductions of his work. This portable miniature gallery, including sixty-nine reproductions of the artist's own work is perhaps today analogous to an online gallery, website or Instagram account.

Outside of the function of an omnipresent portfolio of work, I am particularly interested in Instagram as an accumulating series of photographs that reflect unconscious sensibilities of colour, form and subject matter back at me. When looking at these miniature tiles in totality, apophenic connexions become visible.

The ongoing nature of the account provides an impetus to look and consider my environment in new ways. While adding more images gives a greater total picture to discern, and reveals further qualities that would possibly remain hidden without the aid of this technology.

Visit Instagram @adriandegiorgio for all images.

©ADG2016

Thursday 7 April 2016

ROGUE I



Acrylic and ink on canvas, 110 x 88 cm (approx).


This is my first painting of the year, and my first work on canvas for many years. I had previously turned away from canvas in the search for pure hard edges.

Working on canvas requires a different approach, but I was still able to utilize knowledge gained from my previous work on board. The canvas facilitated a new desire for an in-between state of soft/hard edge, where the hard edge bleeds into soft edge as you approach it.

Different to all others, an impostor among it's peers. This is the result of changing conditions. An adaptation was needed, and this has arrived to fill the nothingness.

©ADG2016

Tuesday 29 March 2016

Lock Screen II


Composition for iPhone V, vector illustration with digital collage.

With a larger screen (1136 x 640 326 ppi) the dimensions of the iPhone5 offers a new format, requiring a new composition.

Displaying this image on the lock-screen maintains the illusion that this is my phone. I know the hardware is not unique. It may be replaced entirely and like some kind of  Ship of Theseus it will remain identical. The image (among other user settings) is like the crew of the ship, the consistent element that sustain a sense of familiarity through time.

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Friday 25 March 2016

Metropolis I



Digital collage.

"So let’s build a building of light: it could be a bundle of light, loops of light — or it could be points of light, the ends of extending tubes of light, like periscopes of light.  When a plane comes in, these lights guide the landing…"
Vito Acconci.

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Wednesday 16 March 2016

From Beyond



I have now passed through the threshold know as the Master of Fine Art program.

This is an installation shot of my work from the postgraduate degree show held in December 2015 at Sydney College of the Arts.

This was the culmination of two years work, an evolution in form through persistent critical thinking and reflexive studio practice.

Big thanks to my supervisor Mikala Dwyer, for her constant support, frequent insights, and generous loving energy.