BODIES OF WORK - MARY WENHOLZ

Third International Conference on the Arts in Society
Birmingham, UK

I will be presenting a paper entitled Paintings you can walk through: the contemporary expansion of medium specificity, at this years conference.
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Painting with Vinyl -
MOP Gallery

Group exhibition exploring the shared interest in materiality between the work of artists Bonita Bub, Sarah Newall and Mary Wenholz.

The Painted Surface Horus and Delorus

Group exhibition of artists whose work explores the role of surface in relation to contemporary painting. Curated by Meredith Francis Lynch.

SCA Post Grad Exhibition - SCA Galleries

Exhibition of work submitted for Master of Visual Arts examination. For this exhibition a 4.2 x 4 m painting was installed on the back wall of the Main Gallery. Ten sheets of clear vinyl on which swathes of pink, purple, green and grey paint had been applied were hung in overlapping layers.

By leaving areas free of paint the wall underneath remained visable in some parts of the painting, thereby incorporating the gallery itself into the overall composition of the work.

This work generated a dynamic internal space and thereby disrupted the traditional relationship between foreground, middle ground and background. By allowing the wall behind the work to become a part of the painting's composition there was a visual re-ordering of the space contained within the work.

How to make Grey Painting
- Exit Gallery

For this exhibtion three grey paintings on clear vinyl were hung in three walls of the exit Gallery. In addition to the different tonalities of grey used in each work, the overhead spotlights were used to produce shadows behind each painting, thereby creating an additional layer of grey gestural marks.

These shadows in conjunction with the areas of wall visible through sections free of paint within each work, created a dialogue between painting and gallery space. Untitled (acrylic on vinyl ) III, 2007 Acrylic on vinyl, 1.5 x 1.4 m. http://www.atthevanishingpoint.com.au/index.p

How to paint Grey Paintings
- Vanishing Point Gallery

26 April - 6 May 2006

With this exhibition I was interested in how aspects of a gallery space such as wall colour and lighting alters the appearance of a work. The paintings for this show were made using only grey, first neutral grey and then purple tinted greys. This limited palette allowed for the impact of the fluro lights with their yellowish tint and the off-white of the walls to rebalance the purple tinted greys, thereby producing a neutral grey painting.

As with my other paintings made on transparent vinyl, areas within each painting were left free of paint, thereby allowing the wall to remain visible and become an overall part of each work's composition.

Reading the Mark
- Exit Gallery

For this show I made to large paintings on white synthetic material. Each work was 2.5m high and 1.8m wide. For these works I mixed the grey paint on the surface of the artwork, as I painted it. With these works I was interested in how the gestural action of transferring paint onto a surface could be enlarged while retaining the sense of bodily movement produced within the action.

CONNECTED: ATVP / SCA Fold

MVA students Meredith Frances Lynch and Mary Wenholz recently shared an exhibition space at one of Sydney’s newest emerging artist galleries: A.T.V.P – Contemporary Art in Newtown. The work exhibited by the pair was consistent with the ongoing studio investigations undertaken as the work represented a blurring of the common held understandings of what painting is as a medium, in a contemporary context. www.usyd.edu.au/su/sca/pdfs/SCAfold_August_07.pdf

Honours Graduation Exhibition - SCA Galleries

Work submitted as part of examination for BVA Honours candidacy. This painting Untitled (acrylic on tracing paper) 2005 consisted of 18 sheets of A3 tracing paper hung in a grid format. On each piece of paper I placed a formation of black vertical lines, allowing the experience of drawing the paint across the paper to determine the final composition. With this work I was interested in the relationship between the simplicity of a repetitive action and the inherent variation produced by this task.


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