2nd September - 21st September 2010
Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand
Ph: (09) 638 8965
Katherine Simpson and Anna Perry
nkb Gallery is pleased to announce a new, energetic two person exhibition featuring Katherine Simpson and Anna Perry. Both of these practitioners have their own unique approach to art making; While the chance to exhibit together may highlight some common areas of interest, it will also (perhaps more importantly) amplify their differences, exposing the innate motivations that lie at the very core of their individual practices.
Katherine Simpson graduated from Whitecliffe College of Art and Design in 1997. For more than a decade, Simpson has maintained an impressive program of solo exhibitions at many of Auckland’s top dealer galleries. She had her first solo exhibition at nkb Gallery in 2009. While Simpson’s work is made up from painterly blocks of colour and can feasibly be read as pure abstraction, her subversive paintings always reference the landscape in unexpected ways. Simpson’s works for this exhibition, by and large, mirror the way in which strata form beneath the earth’s surface. By drawing attention towards this constant process of consolidation and submergence, Simpson seeks to illustrate the landscape as living entity with its’ own personal history.
Anna Perry graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2004. Since then, she has not only exhibited all over New Zealand, she has also made the occasional foray into Europe. Perry’s paintings are vaguely realist, they depict various scenes that are quite literally, plucked from the world around her. The way in which she depicts her subject matter gives it an almost dream-like appearance; at times, the ‘painterly’ nature of her mark making is more pronounced than the subject matter. “The process of gathering and collecting is important to my practise,” says Perry, “I collect information that I later rearrange in my work to create new realities; my works are intended to hug or tug at distant memories; they pull information together in the same way that our minds piece our dreams together.”
You are warmly welcomed to join us at the reception for a glass of wine, as we celebrate the opening of this much anticipated exhibition.