"In Focus"
Judy Millar
Sullivan+Strumpf
799 Elizabeth St Zetland Sydney NSW 2017 Australia
P +61 2 9698 4696 e-mail:
from 18 July, 2020
"Without our body we don’t exist, this to me is our experience of the world and this is what paintings can directly address."
The gestural and abstracted surfaces of Judy Millar’s practice is both intensely physical and highly mediated structures, reflecting the paradox we face of inhabiting both corporeal and cognitive realms. Millar, a distinguished and internationally acclaimed artist, employs the processes of erasure – wiping and scraping paint off the surface of the work – to create visceral canvases that invoke a sense of the body. Millar’s painterly practice also incorporates various printing techniques and digital reproduction, which allow her to push the possibilities of scale by enlarging and exaggerating the painted surface. Through exaggerations of scale, her expressive paintings saturate the viewer and become commanding expressions of embodiment.
Millar represented New Zealand at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 and exhibited again at the 54th Biennale in 2011.
The gestural and abstracted surfaces of Judy Millar’s practice is both intensely physical and highly mediated structures, reflecting the paradox we face of inhabiting both corporeal and cognitive realms. Millar, a distinguished and internationally acclaimed artist, employs the processes of erasure – wiping and scraping paint off the surface of the work – to create visceral canvases that invoke a sense of the body. Millar’s painterly practice also incorporates various printing techniques and digital reproduction, which allow her to push the possibilities of scale by enlarging and exaggerating the painted surface. Through exaggerations of scale, her expressive paintings saturate the viewer and become commanding expressions of embodiment.
Millar represented New Zealand at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 and exhibited again at the 54th Biennale in 2011.
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