And 'The Monstrous and the Sublime: James Gleeson & Deborah Kelly':

The Summer Show : Art Now

16/01/2021 - 28/02/2021

Our annual ‘Summer Show’ features stunning new works from the gallery’s established and early-career artists. Showing concurrently is ‘The Monstrous and the Sublime: James Gleeson & Deborah Kelly’. The Monstrous and The Sublime: James Gleeson & Deborah KellyJames Gleeson (1915 – 2008), artist, painter, critic and poet, and Australia’s greatest surrealist, explored the inner workings of the mind through subconscious and mythological subjects and archetypes. Six small psychoscapes featured in the exhibition explore the human form in landscape. These surreal settings also evoke the interior world of the unconscious. Glesson’s works are held in all State gallery collections and the national collection.Deborah Kelly has spent decades accumulating discarded repositories of western civilisation: old books. With tiny, surgical-grade blades she dissects and reconfigures their references into obsessively detailed visions of other possible worlds. She is the recipient of national and international awards, including the Cayte Latta Award for LGBTI Visual Arts, the DuLac Award in Mexico City, the Albury Art Prize and Fisher’s Ghost Award. Kelly is currently working toward founding a queer insurrectionary science fiction climate change religion, called CREATION. Its traces will be exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, from 26 March to 29 August, 2021.For one week, Wagner Contemporary is hosting the ‘Monstrous and the Sublime: James Gleeson & Deborah Kelly’, an expansive show of works from both artists – coinciding with the opening of Mardi Gras week.

WORKS

Deborah_Kelly_Junee Archival Sausage Party Showdown 1_paper collage_nolan book end paper_56x38cm_hi_res

Fairest of the all (from New Years)_40 x 30cm

Gleeson_Captain_Oil_on_board_15.5x12cm_1960_Master

Gleeson_Odysseus_Oil_on_board_15x13cm_1960s_Master

Gleeson_Variation_on_a_Wanderer_Oil_on_board_15x12.5cm_1960s_Master

James Gleeson_Orion Blinded by Oenopian_circa 1968_oil on board_10 x 14cm (2)

Kelly_1 of 2-die-of-love_ArchivalpigmentprintonHahnemuellepaper,goldleaf,crystal_60x30cm_editionvariabl15_master

Kelly_2 of 2-die-of-love_ArchivalpigmentprintonHahnemuellepaper,goldleaf,crystal_60x30cm_editionvariabl15_master

Kelly_Constraints and consolation _1_29x38cm_email

Kelly_coquette_ArchivalpigmentprintonHahnemuellepaper,goldleaf,crystal_60x30cm_editionvariabl15._master

Kelly_Deborah-Sistren_Venus-as-a-girl_2016

Kelly_Fighting Venus_collage, pigments and watercolours on handmade cotton paper_30 x 21cm

Kelly_mer-venus_ArchivalpigmentprintonHahnemuellepaper,goldleaf,crystal_60x30cm_editionvariabl15_master

Kelly_No God No Master_paper collage on paper_48 x 37.5cm_master

Kelly_Paradise in Peril_collage, pigments and watercolours on handmade cotton paper_30 x 30cm

Kelly_Pearly queens_Collage, watercolours, mother of pearl, 24ct gold leaf and natural diamond on St Armand handmade cotton paper_24 x 18cm_

Kelly_Persistence_ArchivalpigmentprintonHahnemuellepaper,goldleaf,crystal_60x30cm_editionvariabl10

Kelly_sea-kings-daughter_ArchivalpigmentprintonHahnemuellepaper,goldleaf,crystal_60x30cm_editionvariabl15_master

Kelly_venus-as-a-boy_ArchivalpigmentprintonHahnemuellepaper,goldleaf,crystal_60x30cm_editionvariabl15_master

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