- Venue
- The Works Gallery
- Starts
- Tuesday, February 23, 2010
- Ends
- Friday, February 26, 2010
- Address
- The Works Third Floor Jubilee Works 130 Pershore Birmingham B5 6ND
- Location
- West Midlands
The SUR-FACE exhibition represents a visual response to the word ‘surface’. This theme captures the essence of the exhibition as the ambiguities of the word ‘surface’ allows for wider expression and interpretation of the concept. Saranjit Birdi: Explores social dynamics of territory and freedom through the surface of a life-size,action-painting installation combined with dance,movement and mark making as an art form.Live performance 7pm at Private View. Marie-Claire Calatraba: focusing on ink drawing techniques, deconstruction and reconstruction of images, re-working layers, development of detailed layered drawings and built-up surfaces.Karen McLean: questions what lies beneath the surface in an installation that interrogates the historical and contemporary evolution of African Caribbean kinship organisation and the marginality of the father.Janice Talifero: demonstrates the use of protective surfaces in contemporary art like animal coats, skins and feathers, use of latex, colour and spatial aspects of large format abstract paintings.
