WHEN : 2 APR – 7 MAY 2011
WHERE : Jan Manton Gallery
Magda Cebokli – Michael Doolan
Michael Doolan lives in Melbourne and works in Sydney where he is a Lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. In 1981, he completed a Bachelor of Arts (Ceramic Design) at Chisholm Institute of Technology, Melbourne, and in 2001, graduated with a Master of Arts at Monash University, Melbourne where he is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Fine Arts.
Light and Edge doesn’t seem to be much to work with, and yet, these are the basic ingredients with which we construct our complex visual world. They are also the subject matter of over a decade of Magda Cebokli’s explorations as a painter. Working with small differences, simplified form, repetition and a restricted palette, she constructs series of nuanced paintings addressing the function of edge, the movement between light and dark and the structure of space. Irrelevancies are whittled away in the analysis of visual experience to produce series of paintings that appear minimal but whose surfaces are built up layer by meticulous layer, each painting speaking to a question raised by another. Points of ambiguity are of focused on: how the hard edge becomes the soft boundary, the straight line a curved space, the square becomes lost to the circle.
