TWFA's Rebecca Norton is one busy lady with multiple exhibitions on the roster for 2014. Norton is currently in Kentucky for the opening of her exhibition In Between, where her work will be featured alongside fellow artist Nicolas Jorcino. "The exhibition In Between features paintings by Rebecca Norton and Nicolas Jorcino. The artists bring both modern aesthetics and timeless ideas to the centuries-old medium of painting. They test the spatial limits of two-dimensional art through the feeling of depth that they infuse in their compositions. This illusion of depth often makes us feel as though we could walk into and physically explore the painted worlds that they create and the scale of their paintings further accentuates the idea that their artworks are actually extensions of the space we inhabit. In addition to this interplay between two- and three-dimensional representations, their works cross the boundaries between painting and other disciplines – architecture, mathematics, music, urban planning, and poetry."  

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Next month we feature the work of Veronica Ibanez Romagnoli in the TWFineArt Gallery. A major theme in Veronica's work '4:36PM' is the transformative quality of light and the way it shapes how we perceive the world. Veronica's light box installations are created using multiple photo frames of the same interior scene taken over time. Each photograph is printed on glass and superimposed over the other to create a 'cross section' of moments. The work highlights the impermanence of the instant and the transient nature of our existence as our senses navigate reality moment by moment.

Working in a different medium all together, yet linked by the transformative theme, Rebecca Norton is occupied with the hidden geometric transformations of spatial reality. Affine transformations describe the constant movement of spatial planes as we move through reality. Recently Norton has been working on paintings & animations that capture the dynamism of this hidden spatial reality. View Rebecca Norton Animation here.

[caption id="attachment_8639" align="alignleft" width="338"] Untitled, Rebecca Norton 2014[/caption] [caption id="attachment_8642" align="alignleft" width="339"] Untitled, Rebecca Norton 2014[/caption]

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We have just added a new series of art in print by TWFineArt's Julika Lackner. This series is a gorgeous abstract representation of the American landscape in locations like Yellowstone National Park. Like the impressionists, Lackner captures moments of light and color. What she sees around her is depicted in layers of horizontal bands that reference the horizons of landscape. Like layers of sediment, the bands pile on top of each other to create complex abstract visions of the environments around her. Visit Juilka's PORTFOLIO to view the full collection. [caption id="attachment_9827" align="alignleft" width="356"] Color Bands - Yellowstone, 2014. Print by Julika Lackner[/caption] [caption id="attachment_9828" align="alignleft" width="357"] Color Bands - Yellowstone Light, 2014. Print by Julika Lackner[/caption]

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It's sometimes nice to see into the kitchen while your meal is being prepared (so to speak). We feel the same way about our business. TWFineArt's Print Factory is where the artwork from our PORTFOLIO comes to life. We proof, print, mount, frame, package and deliver from our location here in Brisbane. Our team comprises of print specialists and precision framers with decades of experience to ensure that our finished fine art prints are the same quality if not better than you find in a high street gallery. Our artist monographs are shelved in our back office and provide an insight into the work of the world renowned artists that we represent. If you register with us, we will keep you up to date with their careers and give you regular behind the scene glimpses into our Factory and the studios of our artists.

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  [caption id="attachment_9780" align="aligncenter" width="701"] The Print Factory[/caption] [caption id="attachment_9779" align="aligncenter" width="698"] Print being Framed[/caption] [caption id="attachment_9783" align="aligncenter" width="700"] TWFineArt Artist Monographs[/caption]  

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Chris Trueman describes his current body of work as a way of exploring a long-standing interest in the difference between the physiological process of sight and the psychological facet of perception. He is fascinated by the way people interpret visual spaces, extract meaning and build narratives from their perceptions.

In the words of Chris Trueman:

[caption id="attachment_9235" align="alignleft" width="600"] Art by Chris Trueman 72" x 72"[/caption]

"My paintings fuse various styles, gestures, marks and methods of paint application onto the same surface, mixing them with diverse sources from art history and references to popular culture.

Fundamentally, the paintings search out and explore the limitations of parallel processing within our perception. Parallel processing encompasses the ability of our brains to process simultaneous stimuli. In everyday vision the brain processes and analyzes color, motion, shape and depth. Together this set of characteristics is compared to stored memories to identify what we are looking at. Not so long ago, scientists and theoreticians speculated that exposure to technologies such as the Internet and mobile communications would help our brains develop the ability to simultaneously digest multiple sets of parallel processes. Recent research has found that this has not happened. Rather, we are learning to switch trains of thought more quickly and to find connections in a greater number of ways.

I am taking advantage of both aspects by constructing paintings that can not be processed at once; they are intended to remain multiplicitous, and refuse resolution into one unified object. When first viewing the artwork, the viewer’s eyes follow lines, shapes or compositional elements. As one moves through the painting the changes between styles are integrated into a common space, allowing the viewer to slip between styles.

[caption id="attachment_9236" align="alignleft" width="550"] Art by Chris Trueman 46" x 36"[/caption]

By the time the viewer realizes they are no longer looking at the same style, they are following another modality.

As I construct the paintings I work with each style or methodology as a system of ideas revolving around a set of formal devices. By sampling from diverse sources, I am able to tap into a familiarity and cultural memory. I mix color, style and art historical references from hard edge abstraction, architectural rendering, abstract expressionism, pop art, manga, Los Angeles flow painting, and representational painting. I can undermine the essential logic by which each school operates, clashing the appearance and behavior of each system. The finished painting is an irresolvable space that fluidly changes systems of thought as each system begins to contradict its own logic, resulting in greater clarity of the differences between the various systems.

We will be featuring Chris in a solo exhibition in the month of October. Be sure to see his work in person at TW Fine Art!

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