Terri Brooks: Painting is architecture

TERRI BROOKS

Painting is architecture
May 31-June 17

Opening Wednesday May 31, 6.30-8pm
Tacit Galleries, Melbourne
191-193 Johnston St, Collingwood

https://www.tacitart.com.au/collections/painting-is-architecture

Artist Statement

The paintings in this exhibition continue my linear exploration of the grid. But not as grid as straight line rather as grid as motion and construction (building).

One line leads to another. Sometimes works sit for weeks until the next layer presents itself. An intuitive ideology of trust that at some point everything will work out.

That stopping point is always the same. A compositional resolution I could never have conceived prior to commencement.

My current palette is black, white, and brown (light, shade, earths).

Selected works

Grid Work, 2022, oil on canvas, 137 x 122 cm

I had a dream, 2023, oil on canvas, 122 x 153 cm

Open Weave, 2023, oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm

Framed, 2023, oil on canvas 71 x 76 cm

Two Field, 2023, oil on canvas 91 x 61 cm

Orbital, 2022, oil on canvas found lampshade, 40 x 40 x 3 cm

Line and Weight

'In her seminal 1979 essay ‘Grids’, Rosalind Krauss writes that ‘logically speaking, the grid extends, in all directions, to infinity’. The grid within an artwork is therefore ‘a tiny piece arbitrarily cropped from an infinitely larger fabric’. The paintings in Line and Weight convey both this sense of the infinite spatial grid and, through the building up of layers, the infinite and repetitious nature of time. Washed over, painted across, re-written, line by line.' Anna Dunhill 2019.

Over the Edge

`The neglected zones of urban existence – alley ways, awnings, walls, gutters and shutters – occupy a unique place within the history of painting. Perhaps inadvertently, artists have been depicting such insignificant elements as cracked window ledges or the dark recesses of architraves since the time of Giotto. Ubiquitous, utilitarian and often worn down, the marginal nature of such sites and the phenomenological questions they raise has dominated Terri Brooks practice for the past two decades and continues to inform her work today.' Phe Luxford, 2011.