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MISHA HOLLENBACH 

LISTEN TO MENTAL (RADIO) 

OPENING THURSDAY 8 MAY 6 - 8PM EXHIBITION FRIDAY 9 MAY - SATURDAY 31 MAY 2014 Utopian Slumps is pleased to announce the opening of LISTEN TO MENTAL (RADIO) by represented artistMisha Hollenbach on Thursday 8 May, 6 – 8pm.   Listen To Mental (Radio) will feature a series of new paintings and collages from Hollenbach. The exhibition extends his ongoing experimentation with mark making, moving from pared back monochromes to multilayered works with elements of colour. His paintings oscillate between refinement and chaos in a meeting of historical iconography and recurring motifs of eclipses, with gestural brushstrokes. Process collides through expressive movement, with nods to vandalism, harmonised by elements of classicism and the rawness of bare canvas.   As one half of fashion and publishing label P.A.M. Hollenbach has exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include A.T.G.S., Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2013; SHITTY THE GREATEST (with Peter Sutherland), Classic, Paris, 2013; Snagliature, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2012; VENUS (double spout), Utopian Slumps at Art Fair Tokyo, 2012; Holey Hole!, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2011; Do/No/Go Nuts, Family Gallery, Los Angeles, 2011; Pink & Brown, Seems Gallery, NYC, 2010; Forewards, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2010;Snap! (with Peter Sutherland), Target Gallery, Tokyo, 2010; Reaggae (with Peter Sutherland), Utrecht Gallery, Tokyo, 2010; Hot Yoghurt, New Image Art Project Room, Los Angeles, 2009; Stool, Black & Blue, Sydney, 2009; and Indispensable Duties, Y3K, Melbourne, 2009. Group exhibitions include Figure and Ground curated by Melissa Loughnan and Jane O'Neill, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2012; Status, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, 2011; Space Invaders, National Gallery of Art, Canberra, 2010; To the road less traveled – wishing you love and happiness and curiosity forever, V1 Gallery, Denmark, 2010; Smoke Bath Slideshow, 208 E., NY, 2010; why freak? mmm'kay, Y3K, Melbourne, 2009; ONESHOT WERKSTETTE, Dronning Olgas, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009; and Batteries Not included, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, 2009. Hollenbach’s work is held in the National Gallery of Australia collection, as well as various private collections in Australia and overseas. Listen to Mental (Radio) will take place at Utopian Slumps, Ground Floor, 33 Guildford Lane Melbourne, from 9 to 31 May 2014. For further information please contact the gallery via [phone] or [email protected].

UTOPIAN SLUMPS

GROUND FLOOR, 33 GUILDFORD LANE MELBOURNE VICTORIA AUSTRALIA 3000 [phone] WWW.UTOPIANSLUMPS.COM HOURS: WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY 12 - 5PM

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Etel Adnan

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Choi Jeong Hwa Life/Life 

William Forsythe Scattered Crowd 

Martin Creed Half the Air in a Given Space 

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Greene Naftali Gallery New York 

Loveless 

March 25 - April 26 2014 

Images Richard Artschwager Running Man (triple) 2013  David Hammons Untitled 2014  Sherie Levine Lead Knot 2015 Laura Owens Untitled 2014 Katharina Fritsch Postkarte (Franken) [2nd Postcard Franken)] 2006

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Helen Frankenhaler

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Nathan Gray 'Works: Under 30 Seconds and Things That Fit Together'

Utopian Slumps is pleased to announce the opening of Works: Under 30 Seconds and Things That Fit Together from represented artist Nathan Gray on Saturday 12 April, 4 – 6pm.

  Nathan Gray’s Works: Under 30 Seconds and Things That Fit Together are two projects that improvise within self-imposed time and material constraints. They aim to have an economy and lightness of touch that deflects attention from the ‘work’ aspect of the artwork. More generally, they are improvisations with the time limits and economic constraints of the artist's life.

  Gray is currently completing an MFA at Monash University. He studied toward a Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) at Curtin University, Perth in 1994, completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Electronic Design and Interactive Media at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne in 2002. Selected solo exhibitions include Acts,Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2012; Theorist Training Camp/Practice Piece, West Space, Melbourne, 2012; In the year 2525, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2011; Gertrude Contemporary Project Space, Melbourne Art Fair, 2010;Tudo Que Acho/ Everything I Think, The Narrows, Melbourne, 2008; Quem Ao Viu O Vento, Escola Dos Belos Artes, Salvador, Brazil; 2008; Untitled Installation, Mirka @ Tolarno for ACCA, Melbourne, 2007; and Love, Purity, Accuracy, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, 2007. Recent group exhibitions include You Imagine What You Desire, 19th Biennale of Sydney, 2014; Sonic Spheres, TarraWarra Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2012;The Social Life of Things, Monash University Faculty Gallery, Melbourne, 2012; New Psychedelia, University of Queensland Art Museum; and ACCA Art #2, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, 2011. Gray completed residencies at Cemeti House, Indonesia in 2011 and at the Sacatar Foundation in Bahia, Brazil in 2008. He is a member of the improvised electro acoustic group Snawklor and band The French.   Works: Under 30 Seconds and Things That Fit Together will take place at Utopian Slumps, Ground Floor, 33 Guildford Lane Melbourne, from 12 April to 3 May 2014. 

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Gian Manik 'Foils'

PROJECT ROOM Utopian Slumps is pleased to announce the opening of Foils from Gian Manik in the Project Room on Saturday 12 April, 4 – 6pm.   Manik’s paintings explore vibration, an in-between or liminal space that is created when a painting borrows from a number of visual devices, as opposed to simply recording in a singular style.

Manik completed a Bachelor of Arts, Visual Art (Honours) at Curtin University of Technology, Perth in 2007 and a Master of Fine Arts at Monash University, Melbourne in 2012. Solo exhibitions include Big Recorder, Alaska Projects, Sydney, 2013; The Retreat to Representation, Venn Gallery, Perth, 2012; Decorative Backings, Artbeat, Melbourne, 2011; Heinous Armani, with Thomas Jeppe, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne, 2011; and The Second Blow, Black and Blue Gallery, Sydney, 2009. Selected group exhibitions include 4th Artist Biennial, curated by Christopher L G Hill, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, 2013; Fresh Paint, Sutton Project Space, Melbourne, 2013; Pool, Compound Interest, Collingwood, 2013; Pre-Mix, Galleria, Perth, 2011; Dialogues With The Landscapes, Perth International Arts Festival, University of Western Australia, Perth, 2011; Soft Copy, Coastal Shelf, Perth, 2009; The Yellow Vest Syndrome: Recent Western Australian Art, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle, 2009; and Hatched 2007, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, 2007. Manik was resident at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2008 and Artspace Sydney in 2009. His work is held in the Art Gallery of Western Australia and Artbank collections as well as various private collections in Australia and internationally.

Foils from Gian Manik will take place in the Utopian Slumps Project Room together with Nathan Gray's Works: Under 30 Seconds and Things That Fit Together from 12 April to 3 May 2014. 

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TEE MANY MARTOONIS

Oscar Perry at Trisian Koenig 

Chipping the Flannel, 2014

Poor Snooker, or Poor Physics?, 2013

Feel like a Winner, Look like a Loser, 2013 

until 30 March 

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Barbara Marks, “1 blue + 3 green” (2014) Acrylic gouache on paper. 8.25 x 8.25 in. www.barbarammarks.com

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Vivienne Binns at tcb inc. 

Andre Piguet at Westspace 

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Jess Johnson Studio 12 Gertrude Contemporary

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Yvette Coppersmith 'Love and Light'

Julia Kristeva’s Black Sun (1989) raises the idea that melancholy from loss of love can be transformed creatively by giving visibility where there is a void; that art can be an object replacing the love that was lost.

For Love and light Yvette Coppersmith has produced a new series of still life paintings which also function as self-portraits. Collaborative in nature, the project began through the exercise of asking former lovers to create a model of a reclining nude in remembrance of the artist’s body.

Exploring ideas of memory, loss and desire, the resulting figures served as the subjects for a series of paintings that distort notions of the male gaze. Presented as a reclaimed trove of relationship artefacts and a gestural recollection of the self, the artistic interpretation of the figures serve to assert the artist’s body and reframe the memory of each relationship – a transference of love from the transient exchange to the artwork itself.

On view at Utopian Slumps in the project room until 5 April 

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Rhys Lee 'A Bag of Ears'

Rhys Lee’s latest exhibition showcases new, ambitious ceramic work alongside his works on paper and canvas. Picking up where his last solo left off, Lee pursues the darker tones suggested in his practice.

Lee’s paintings evoke a half-forgotten memory, rendered with broad brushstrokes and populated by sparse but pointed elements of detail, which serve as focal points to the vague totality of the imagery. His ceramic works are likewise populated by enough detail to provide focus but blurry enough to leave much to the imagination.

On view at Utopian Slumps until 5 April 

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Fergus Binns 'Rarities, Scarities, Ruins and Ripe Fruit'

Rarities, Scarities, Ruins and Ripe Fruit  is a playful assortment of works from Fergus Binns ranging from figurative to abstract, housed within an installation environment. The exhibition will include an assemblage made during the heat wave and works made with friend and peer Kim Henenberg.

Binns is a conceptual painter whose work has explored depictions of Australian icons, national identity, the environment, art history, consumerism and popular culture. These combine to depict multiple narratives that are at once personal and universal, and often comedic.

Fergus Binns Rarities, Scarities, Ruins and Ripe Fruit on view at Utopian Slumps Feb 15 - March 8 2014 

More about Fergus Binns here 

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Steven Asquith 'Midnight Drone Lullaby'

Steven Asquith’s latest body of work embraces the contradictions of an optimistic apocalypse in response to recent global socio-economic, political events and our post-internet, 24-hour news cycle society. This dissonance is evoked by a contrast between clean lines and the rougher touch of an imprecisely wielded can of spray paint. Brushstroke interventions and grid systems are used to articulate the reckoning of contemporary issues of surveillance, drone strikes, environmental degradation and economic regression. Asquith’s gestures are decisive, precise in their chaos and inexact in their measurements, colourfully hopeful in their visions of doom.

Asquith’s Midnight Drone Lullaby continues with his abstracted exploration of the contemporary interplay between technology, society and the primordial brutality that lurks beneath these human endeavours. Within his gestural works lay the everyday misfires that characterise any activity; the rough practical outcomes of refined theoretical ideals. Devoid of figures these works bring the viewer into abstract environments, generating space for the contemplation of individual standpoints. Free of political leanings they merely hold a mirror to the viewer’s own joys and horrors amidst the impact and influence of new technologies and global perspectives.

'Midnight Drone Lullaby' on view at Utopian Slumps Feb 15 - March 8 2014

More about Steven Asquith here 

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Enoc Perez

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Misha Hollenbach, New Collages, mixed media on found image, dimensions variable  More about Misha Hollenbach here