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Kevin Malloy: Press Release

August 2005
Annandale Galleries

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Saccadic Spaces is the latest exhibition of new works by Kevin Malloy. Over the last five years Annandale Galleries has had the pleasure of showcasing Malloy's work as it flourished from pieces austere in their execution and feel, featuring brighter colours amongst muted greys, to paintings that are truly celebratory in nature, featuring thousands of multicolour circles that, rather than hiding amongst subdued tones now spring forth, their presence exaggerated by the white disks that illuminate the fresh joyful colours.

The introduction of enigmatic figures sometimes deep within the ground and sometimes more clearly discernible is also a new departure. The tripods and chairs are still there in some works but include shadowy figures in some works lending an atmosphere of mystery. There is clearly an early point in their execution where the artist has entirely let himself be dictated by intuition and feeling and left his head behind. This is not to say that the rigour he is known and respected for has not disappeared - quite the contrary - but a breakthrough has definitely occurred. These new paintings are a revelation.

Unlike Malloy's last show where the objects depicted signify the absence of the viewer but confirm the present conditions of viewing., these paintings come straight at you like an arrow and surround you at the same time.

KEVIN MALLOY (born 1956 USA) studied art in London and migrated to Australia in 1990. He has had a dozen solo exhibitions since 1982 and his work is in numerous public collections in Australia and the UK, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Art Gallery NSW and the National Gallery of Australia. This is his third solo exhibition at Annandale Galleries.

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» View Kevin Malloy: Press Release exhibition

Saccadic Spaces is the latest exhibition of new works by Kevin Malloy. Over the last five years Annandale Galleries has had the pleasure of showcasing Malloy's work as it flourished from pieces austere in their execution and feel, featuring brighter colours amongst muted greys, to paintings that are truly celebratory in nature, featuring thousands of multicolour circles that, rather than hiding amongst subdued tones now spring forth, their presence exaggerated by the white disks that illuminate the fresh joyful colours.

The introduction of enigmatic figures sometimes deep within the ground and sometimes more clearly discernible is also a new departure. The tripods and chairs are still there in some works but include shadowy figures in some works lending an atmosphere of mystery. There is clearly an early point in their execution where the artist has entirely let himself be dictated by intuition and feeling and left his head behind. This is not to say that the rigour he is known and respected for has not disappeared - quite the contrary - but a breakthrough has definitely occurred. These new paintings are a revelation.

Unlike Malloy's last show where the objects depicted signify the absence of the viewer but confirm the present conditions of viewing., these paintings come straight at you like an arrow and surround you at the same time.

KEVIN MALLOY (born 1956 USA) studied art in London and migrated to Australia in 1990. He has had a dozen solo exhibitions since 1982 and his work is in numerous public collections in Australia and the UK, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Art Gallery NSW and the National Gallery of Australia. This is his third solo exhibition at Annandale Galleries.

For more press, information or visuals please contact Annandale Galleries

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