Twelve Paintings – Nicola Smith & Blue Lines – Josh Foley
Image: Nicola Smith, Twelve Paintings, installation view, Galerie pompom, Sydney. Courtesy the artist and Galerie pompom.
February will be an eventful month for Galerie pompom as the month will exhibit two fantastic art exhibitions by Nicola Smith and Josh Foley.
In particular, Nicola Smith’s Twelve Paintings will stun and amaze onlookers “Each individual painting tells a story but the story changes depending on who they are paired with,” Nicole Smith explains. Twelve Paintings were inspired by Smith’s travels and interactions with people both in reality and on social media through her photography.
With her skill of oil painting, she then transforms and transposes the photograph into a painting. “I thoroughly enjoy painting what I see from a photograph onto a blank canvas,” Smith says.
‘Blue Lines’ – shadows, form, subject and object. ‘Blue Lines’ – a Massive Attack album and a song title off that album. ‘Blue lines’ – a lyric from that song referencing Doctor Who and his time travelling machine, The Tardis. Josh Foley will occupy the designated ‘blue line’ area in Galerie pompom with recent painting experiments. Some of these are small acrylic paintings that aim to create the illusion of a type of paint sculpture, a gestural clump of matter hovering within a void. Other works continue Foley’s investigation into the cultural and structural tropes and instabilities of the still life genre, especially in consideration of digitised platforms.
Both artists explore the ways in which we interact with each other, either in the reality realm or the wires that instantly connect through distance. (EV)
Feb 4-Mar 1, Galerie Pompom, 2/39 Abercrombie St Chippendale, FREE, 0430318438, galeriepompom.com
Written by Erika Vass
