LISA PANG (LISA SHARP)

art & musings on art

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EXHIBITION

DRAWING

Locust Jones; Magic Sauce

1 June – 2 July, 2023. Drawspace, Enmore, Australia.

What I connect with…

The expressive mark making and energy, as well as the music. Reminds me of every work space I’ve ever had, singing at the top of my lungs but without an audience. I respect the courage it would take to pull something like this off.

This is Locust Jones during a live drawing performance at the opening of Draw Space in Enmore. Jones is working on a big canvas with oil sticks, referring to a note book, and sometimes reading from it through a microphone, while bouncing around off a drum accompaniment. What a way to kick off this exciting new drawing focused exhibition space, surely the birth of something unique in the Australia art landscape. Big drawing community vibes. Well done!

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Bouncing around drawing - a great little review of Locust Jones’ ‘Magic Sauce’ by Scott Elk. Thanks Scott.

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Repost from @articulateprojectspace • We are open tonight! 6-9pm‼️ ARTICULATE TURNS 12 #AT12 Dec 3 until Dec 18 Thu 6-9pm & Fri, Sat & Sun 11am -5pm CLOSING DRINKS SUNDAY 18 Dec 3-5pm 🥂🥂 Andrew Simms, Anke Stäcker, Anya Pesce, Aude Parichot, Beata Geyer, Billy Gruner, Brenton Schwab, Carlos Velasquez, David Helmers, Dell Walker, Diane McCarthy, Elizabeth Day, Elke-Wohlfahrt, Ira Ferris+11 others, Isobel Johnston, Jan Handel, Jennifer Chua, Jo Rankine, Juliet Fowler Smith, Kendal Heyes, Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger, Lesley Giovanelli, Lindy Yoannidis, Lisa Pang, Lisa Stonham, Lynn Godfree, Maria Constantinescu, Molly Wagner, Murray&Burgess, Noelene Lucas, Paul Sutton&Steve Simpson, Ro Murray, Steven Fasan, Sue Callanan, Sue Murray, Wai Ting Daisy Ng, Zorica Purlija Articulate celebrates twelve years of spatial, experimental and project work in art under a new board and collective. More info +online room sheet on our website 👆🏻link in bio 👆🏻 #opentonight #articulateprojectspace #turns #12 #groupexhibition #annual #sydney #sydneygallery #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #notforprofit #thursdaynight #art #artists #community #AT12 #experimental #innerwestsydney #gallery #projectspace #twelveyears #celebrate https://www.instagram.com/p/CmKuB86Bbyv/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Last show of the year‼️ Delighted to be participating in #AT12 @articulateprojectspace with this work, ‘Night, Light and Half-Light’ a found antique patched tenugui cloth, stitched and patched again with Edo paper thread and cloth scraps, 90 x 30 cm (detail) Opening drinks 3-6 pm this Saturday 3 Dec❗️(have one for me) and exhibition is up until 18 Dec. Opening hours 11 am - 5 pm Th-Sun and extra Thursday nights 6 - 9 pm 🧵🪡🧵🪡🧵🪡🧵🪡🧵🪡🧵#articulateprojectspace #12 #sewingaboutpainting #tenugui #kamiito #sashiko #groupexhibition #artistcommunity (at Articulate project space) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClnjpNJhXKo/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Such a pleasure to meet Leah and Charles Justin of @jahmmuseum recently, to see and discuss their current exhibition ‘Art & Gender’, a selection of visually paired works from their collection. Last weekend of tours coming up - engaging, discursive and interesting! 面白いですね #artandgender #greatwomenartists (at Justin Art House Museum - JAHM) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkhdAIGBZ18/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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LAST WEEK - Exhibition closes this Saturday 29th October. Repost from @gcsgallery • LAST FEW DAYS Borders closes 29 October 2022 • Murray and Burgess, Sarah Fitzgerald, Jan Handel, Michelle Le Dain, Ro Murray, and Lisa Pang • “I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven't said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.’ : Tove Jansson • A border can be seen as a hard edge, a definitive division between things. However much of my approach as an artist has been to explore borders as a space of porosity. I am more interested in borders as transitional spaces of exchange and movement between things. As an artist, I have been making works situated in the border between painting and sculpture, between surface and object but also between art and craft, and so ultimately, between familiarity and strangeness. I am interested in exploring narratives where things don’t fit, whether into disciplines, cultures or expectations and the tension of awkwardness that can result. The GCS Gallery provides an opportunity to present works that particularly, but playfully, discourse between the domestic and the gallery space. • With thanks to my wonderful artist colleagues: @sarah.fitzgeraldd @janhandel_artist @jolibeol @michelleledain @romurray @murrayburgessart and @gcsgallery for having us. #paintingaboutpainting (at Grace Cossington Smith Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkKC2KwBnkn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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LAST WEEK - Exhibition closes this Saturday 29th October. Repost from @five_walls • Continuing in Gallery 2a is “Soft Paintings” by Lisa Pang: I like to think of painting as action, object and discourse, all at once. Going from word to vocabulary, my practice explores the ways in which the form of painting can express those conflations and contradictions, as a visual language. With a materially reductive approach, I situate my work in the gap between expanded and contracted painting. Traditional materials and conventions are placed alongside unconventional ones to enable a playful and process-driven approach. In my mind’s eye, I try to make work that is – but isn’t – or merely resembles – painting to capture that elusive nature of formal identity, in form. The exhibition Soft Paintings contains a series of works that consider the role of textiles as support for painting. The possibilities of cloth as canvas unfolds a myriad of evocative social, cultural, and material histories. Textiles are an intrinsic aspect of our everyday material culture however as creative expression were historically gendered and relegated as craft. Metaphorically, as surrogate canvasses sourced from the domestic realm, these works play with that ambivalence. They suggest human rituals of support; the drinking of tea, the resting body, the private space. Soft Paintings addresses the concept of surface whether in painting or life by speculating on what may be under or behind it. In absenting and substituting some of the formal elements of painting, an exchange arises about what it is to have support, put on a surface, or enter a threshold space. Soft Paintings invites you to consider the minimum material conditions for a household textile item to perform as a painting. The exhibition positions painting within fragile frameworks; of familiar materialities made unfamiliar. Is it an art object, decoration or commodity? As textile architecture, Soft Paintings muses about shifting meaning and form between the private (domestic) and public (gallery) spaces. - @jolibeol @missy_u_ (at Five Walls) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkIzKVghL_I/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I’m in a group exhibition opening next week in Sydney: BORDERS 7-29 Oct 2022 @gcsgallery Working with @murrayburgessart @sarah.fitzgeraldd @janhandel_artist @michelleledain @romurray We six artists have come together with an exhibition built around the idea of ‘Borders’. This exhibition will show new work made specifically and approached in a broad sense that explores notions of borders between physical spaces, people, ideas, politics, things, and art itself. 1st image: @romurray ‘Fallen Sky,’ 2021, Linoprint, 56x228cm 2nd image: my work, a series of 3 ‘Halves’ 2022, gesso, cotton stitching and mineral pigments (marble, crystal, calcite) on cotton gauze Noren curtains, 150x85cm ea Opening reception: 2-4 pm Saturday 8th October 2022 #borders #groupexhibition #circlesquaretriangle #whitepainting #paintingaboutpainting (at Sydney, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci_7jFLLvZr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Softly delighted to whisper about my solo exhibition opening next month at Five Walls Projects in Melbourne: ‘Soft Paintings’ 12-29 October 2022 A series of works that consider the role of textiles as support for painting. Objects that are, but aren’t, or merely resemble, painting. Soft paintings plays upon the elusivity of formal definitions, in form. Opening: 6-9 pm Friday 14 October 2022 Image: Curtain Painting (detail) 2022

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My ‘Incineratorscapes’ series 2021-2 (Triangle, Square, Circle) triptych - thank you to a collector who acquired all 3 from the ‘Architecture and Beyond’ exhibition, June 2022 at The Incineratorscape Art Space in Willoughby. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 #architectureandbeyond #jolibeol #lisapang #artandarchitecture (at The Incinerator) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeyWt3gB_pk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Opening next week at the Incinerator Art Space in Willoughby. Delighted to be showing with these artists: @mandybur @michelleledain @nicola.mcc @romurray @sarah.fitzgeraldd ⛺️🛖🛕🏗 Our exhibition playfully explores the enduring impact of Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin and more broadly, of Modernist architecture through the discourse of contemporary visual arts. The artworks will explore perceptions of interior and exterior spaces within the Incinerator and other Griffin-designed sites. 🔺🟡🟦 Open from next Wednesday 25 May with opening event + drinks 2-4 pm on Sunday 29 May. Please join us. … #architectureandbeyond #beyondarchitecture #griffin #artandarchitecture (at The Incinerator) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdryGWzhvcI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Repost from @tetsuya_chiba_artist • 【English text is below】私とLisaPang @jolibeol さんが共同キュレーターを務める展覧会の御案内です。皆様の御来場をお待ち申し上げます。 ◆「ザ・パドック―東京への便り」展 <シドニー・ニューヨーク・パリ・ヨハネスブルグ・香港・東京 > 世界の6都市から77名のアーティストが参加し、ポストカードサイズの作品を展示いたします。 ◆日時：4月23日(土)〜29日(金)　11時〜19時 ◆オープニングパーティー：4月23日（土）17時〜19時 ◆会場：101-0021 東京都千代田区外神田6-11-14 アーツ千代田3331　地下1階 B108 　ギャラリーIN ◆入場無料・会期中無休 ------------------------------------------------ Upcoming exhibition co-curated by @tetsuya_chiba_artist and I. We look forward to your visit. ◆The Paddock: Posted To Tokyo <Sydney, New York, Paris, Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Tokyo> 77 artists from 6 cities around the world will participate in the exhibition of postcard-sized works. ◆Date and time: April 23 (Sat) -29 (Fri) 11: 00-19: 00 ◆Opening party: Saturday, April 23, 17: 00-19: 00 ◆Venue: 101-0021 6-11-14 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Arts Chiyoda 3331 B1F B108 Gallery IN ◆Free admission. Open daily during the period. (at 3331 Arts Chiyoda) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccq5kOIhObi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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at11 artists talk (via Vimeo)

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'I waited for a long time', Catalogue essay, 'Que des femmes / Only women' exhibition at Factory 49

Catalogue essay written for 'Que des Femmes / Only Women' exhibition at Factory 49 (AU) a satellite exhibition of the 6th Biennale of International Non-objective Art (FR)

I wrote a thing for this show, co-curated by Anya Pesce and I.

Online for now (Sydney lockdown) - hope to have a real show on Nov 24.

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Hankachi はんかち 2021 Gesso on canvas on board ... It all began with a konbini hankachi... Made in Japan, hope to show it in Sydney. Soon... #paintlesspainting #lisapang #abgeo https://www.instagram.com/p/CPnLAQDjGA6/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The quiet power of monochrome paintings

I wasn’t looking for it, which made the encounter all the more meaningful. So delighted to be published again in Tokyo Art Beat.

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( ) a parenthesis of eight, now seven, spaces: hold everything dear more than ever

Exhibition Essay 'Hold Everything Dear More Than Ever' - Ro Murray, Michelle Belgiorno, Mandy Burgess, Deborah Burdett, Renuka Fernando, Jo Meisner, Michelle Connolly, Tilly Lees at Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby 10 June - 4 July 2021

I'm pleased and saddened at the same time to have written this exhibition essay 'for Jo xx' -  Congratulations to the artists. 

 The 'Hold Everything Dear More Than Ever' exhibition continues the original premise of the first exhibition in 2019, arising from John Berger’s book of essays of the same name, to formulate visual responses to a world become "hard to look at, let alone think of". Like the Berger essays, these artists are drawn to express the qualities of personal, intense moments of daily living and thinking, often using them as a source of broader social commentary. Through their diverse work, they address universal themes; of grief, memory, connection, joy, shelter, failure and play. The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of artist (and friend) Jo Meisner, who passed away unexpectedly in 2019 and whose works are included. 

Artists are Ro Murray Michelle Belgiorno Mandy Burgess Deb Burdett Renuka Fernando Jo Meisner Michelle Connolly Tilly Lees at the Incinerator Art Space, 16 June - 4 July 2021. 

 Image: work by Jo Meisner. 

Cover design by Annelies Jahn.