{"id":279,"date":"2017-10-14T08:56:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T08:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2020-08-05T06:35:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T06:35:34","slug":"bleak-lines-and-routine-despair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahneyalexandramay.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/14\/bleak-lines-and-routine-despair\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition: Bleak Lines and Routine Despair, George Paton Gallery, September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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George Paton Gallery, October 2017<\/p>\n

Curated by Tahney Fosdike<\/a><\/p>\n

Through simple lines, sketches are phenomenal in their momentous creation, capturing fleeting moments and the mind\u2019s angst in the everyday. Bypassing filtered concepts, the sketch exposes the psych through immediate interpretations of personal worlds. Within frank diarist sketches,\u00a0Bleak lines and routine despair<\/em>\u00a0satirically explores the deeply anxious and fatigued elements of daily life.<\/p>\n

While the backgrounds of the artists are diverse- based in Melbourne, Oregon, New York and Helsinki- their core representation of daily life exemplifies the commonality of the human condition. The artists, mostly practicing on online platforms, don\u2019t ask for meaning within their existential dread. Instead, they damn the frustrating cycles filling their lives; boldly outlining what crawls under their skin.<\/p>\n

Despite outwardly simple content, the sketch provides an acute study of human behaviour and the modern condition. While the work is sharply sarcastic and deeply melancholic, it is reassuring in its square look at routine despair. Despite the monotony of the daily grind, the self is continuously exposed to internal battles and ruthless environments. Rather than continuing to suppress the dreadfulness of the everyday making an honest and cynical retort demandable to expose what powers relationships with the self and others. Within the non-abstract and bold nature of sketch, the savage, disillusioning and exhausting characteristics of life are bared.<\/p>\n

Experimental Art Space-\u00a0Everything, Everyday<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Both autobiographical and a story of common human experience, the sketches in this space impose sardonic observations and encompass the intense emotion bound within the boring, frustrating and repetitive of daily life. Revealing and confronting the unspoken but universal, the complexities of life are boiled down to simple lines on paper.<\/p>\n

Bode Burnout<\/strong> combines written word and sketch through a poetical whilst deadpan technique, articulating battles with identity and anxiety within daily realities.<\/p>\n

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Who Am I<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stupid as Shit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Cute<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I\u2019m currently writing this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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That\u2019s Enough Hope<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lies to get you out of bed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Shirt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See more of her work: Instagram @bodeburnout and http:\/\/bodeburnout.bigcartel.com\/<\/p>\n

Celeste Mountjoy <\/strong>(Filthyratbag) sardonically commentates the unpolished but core aspects of life through observations of human dialogue and behaviour.<\/p>\n

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Follow her work: @filthyratbag<\/p>\n

Sarah Firth\u2019s<\/strong> vibrant, bold palette produces a fluid dreamlike quality to her confronting narratives on the human condition revealed in everyday life.<\/p>\n

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Existential Crises<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Feeling is a Form of Thinking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Humanity is an Ocean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Memory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Multidimensional Life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Responsibility<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See more of her work: @sarahthefirth and http:\/\/www.sarahthefirth.com<\/p>\n

Sofia Kolovskaya\u2019s <\/strong>project \u201cOne Day One Sketch,\u201d now in its fourth year, captures the daily grind delicately and honestly.<\/p>\n

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To follow her project: @sofia.kolovskaya and https:\/\/vk.com\/1day1sketch<\/a><\/p>\n

Brit Ouchida\u2019s<\/strong> diagrams are both aesthetic and conceptually expansive, encapsulating their experience in the world through relational dynamics, mental health, gender, sexuality and humour.<\/p>\n

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Antidote, watercolour, ink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Loneliness, watercolour, ink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Healing, watercolour, ink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Heart + Mind, watercolour, ink, marker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mood, ink, marker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sea of Anxiety, watercolour, gouache, ink<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Orlando, marker on paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See more of their work: @britchida<\/p>\n

Again?<\/em> – West Glass Cabinet<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both autobiographical and a story of common human experience, the sketches in this space impose sardonic observations and encompass the intense emotion bound within the boring, frustrating and repetitive of daily life. Revealing and confronting the unspoken but universal, the complexities of life are boiled down to simple lines on paper.<\/p>\n

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Gorkie <\/strong>provides honest and sharp observations of the pressures of everyday life. Commenting on perpetual juxtapositions and downfalls within human existence, her diarist approach contains tonal elements of existential dread and despair.<\/p>\n

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See more of her work: @gorkiegork<\/p>\n

Liana Finck<\/strong>, although already an established cartoonist with regular contributions to The New Yorker <\/em>and The Awl, <\/em>creates sketches for Instagram to draw on creativity uninhibitedly, minimising her own self-conscious nature and the forcefulness of deadlines. As a result, she explores her different moods through reflecting on her struggles with relationships, work and mental health. Confronting and humorous, her work is jarringly impactful in its simplicity.<\/p>\n

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See more of her work on her \u201cpublic sketchbook\u201d (aka Instagram): @lianafinck<\/p>\n

The Sketchbook <\/em>– Vitrine Space<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.\u201d \u2013 Robert Henri (1865-1929)<\/p>\n

The sketchbook is an understated but central component to artistic practice. While overlooked as preliminary to larger concepts and products, the sketchbook captures momentous creativity and fleeting moments of the inspired mind.<\/p>\n

Sofia Kolovskaya<\/strong> document her frequent travels in an ongoing project she calls her \u201ctravelbook.\u201d Originally from St Petersburg and now based in Helsinki, the nomadic artist uses her travelbook to absorb and depict the diverse characters of places she finds herself in.<\/p>\n

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Antwerpen, Belgium, liners, golden marker on paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hamburg, Germany, liners, fragments from theatre brochure, red pencil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To follow her project: @sofia.kolovskaya and https:\/\/vk.com\/1day1sketch<\/a><\/p>\n

Gorkie<\/strong> is acutely aware of her surroundings, creating about four sketches a day. Her rough, simple works are sharp observations of daily life, especially as a young person navigating the world.<\/p>\n

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Untitled works, highlighter and marker on paper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See more of her work: @gorkiegork<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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