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The Pinkness at Tristian Koenig Gallery

Elyss McCleary | The Pinkness | 17.01.19 - 09.02.19

Tristian Koenig is delighted to announce the launch of the gallery’s 2019 exhibition program with The Pinkness - a solo exhibition of new works by Melbourne-based painter Elyss McCleary. McCleary has previously exhibited at the gallery in the group exhibition The Means Make the Ends, with The Pinkness being her first solo project with the gallery.

Elyss McCleary paints from within a vein of lyrical abstraction that is descriptive, as opposed to the proscriptive tenets implied by the quasi-movement within early post-war painting. Fusing memory with materiality, expressive haptics with Art History, along the way McCleary orchestrates a form of physical activity  and moving meditation that is both fast and slow, soft and hard, viscous and unyielding.

The titles of her works veer between evocations of the quotidian and passing, to contemplative archetypal spaces - where seagulls spying hot chips are juxtaposed next to mystical snakes slithering across the sky. Linked by a uniformity of scale, the works share uncanny combinations of hue and thinly veiled and translucent brushwork, with the resultant effect creating a curious circularity - one can clearly demarcate where gestures start and end, overlap and merge, however the works defy an identification of start and end. This effect of eluding elucidation is the mystery of Painting.

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Orchestra of Pink, oil on linen, 140cm x 125.5cm, 2018

Elyss McCleary, Orchestra of Pink, oil on linen, 140cm x 125.5cm, 2018

Summer New at James Makin Gallery

My painting has been included in first exhibition of 2018 at James Makin Gallery, The Summer New Group Show.

Andrew Chan Carla Fletcher Betra Fraval Elyss McCleary Jack Rowland Paul Ryan

Summer New is on from the 17th January to 10th February 2018.

Link http://jamesmakingallery.com/

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Elyss McCleary, Moon in the River, Oil on linen , 157cm x 123cm, 2018.