OPENINIG RECEPTION: Friday, August 27, 2004; 6-10 PM
SPECIAL PUBLIC VIEWING: Friday, September 10, 2004; 6-10PM
ON VIEW: Friday, August 27 until Saturday, September 25, 2004
Australian artist David Noonan will complete his two month residency at ThreeWalls with a culminating exhibition of new work entitled “they became what they beheld.” For this exhibition, Noonan will present a series of paintings and a short film that he completed over his summer at ThreeWalls in Chicago, Illinois. The work is characterized by a psychological anxiousness communicated through nostalgic images of late 1960’s and early 1970’s motifs. Depictions of youth of the era wearing then contemporary design motifs, ornate brocades and macramé, are synthesized with more idiosyncratic images of Tudor-style homes in wooden settings and Balinese shadow puppets to create a masked and sinister recollection of that era’s loss of sunny idealism. His unique painting technique of bleaching black cloth to reveal these images reinforces both the work’s dark overtones and craft references. Additionally, this style of painting shares similarities with the exposing of film, another frequent medium for Noonan.
This exhibition will be on display at ThreeWalls residency and exhibition space between August 27 and September 25, 2004. There will be a reception of the artist on Friday August 27 from 6 until 10 PM. The gallery will also be open on Friday, September 10 form 6 until 10 PM to coincide with receptions at other West Loop area galleries scheduled for that evening.
ThreeWalls is a nonprofit organization dedicated to contemporary art and art education. Our mission is to provide workspace for emerging artists who are at pivotal points in their careers, and to offer the public new approaches to contemporary art-practices through unconventional exhibitions and educational programming.
Links:
they became what they beheld exhibition booklet 1 of 2 (pdf)
they became what they beheld exhibition booklet 2 of 2 (pdf)
Noonan online at Saatchi Gallery
Noonan at Palais de Tokyo, Paris
