SNO 176 - CHEVRON WORKS

Andrew Huston, Billy Gruner, Chris Osborne, Christine Dean,
David Aspden, David Serisier, Joe Wilson + Chanelle Collier, John Firth Smith, John Nixon, Kyle Jenkins, Luna Gui, Mark Titmarsh, Ron Robertson-Swann, Ruark Lewis, Sarah Keighery, Serhiy Popov, Susan Andrews
Curated by Billy Gruner

Backroom | Opens on Oct 3 until Oct 25 | Fri, Sat & Sun

Artist and curator Billy Gruner as founder of SNO revisits core ideas behind the creation of an ongoing post 20th c reductive arts program. In this presentation for the current SNO advisory committee a set of small studio works from a variety of classic post 20thc reductive art makers 'studio paintings' have been specifically chosen. The shows thematic looks at three curious ideas around the concept of the 'chevron'. A form found in these divergent ouevres and includes works from artists now deceased.

As the founder of SNO I am proud to now curate an 'Art & Architecture' grouping. In this presentation for the current SNO board I have chosen a set of small studio works from a variety of classic post 20th c reductive art makers. Studio paintings have been specifically chosen for a show looking at three curious ideas found in these divergent oeuvres.
1. Why horizontal line defines landscape in space.
2 Why vertical line is palindromic by nature, intersecting ground/space/form.
3. Why the diagonal is the mysterious vilsible architect/traveller of the interplannar.

Notes: Either or all by definition or absence as in the pre modern visual language/tradition of Heraldics. For relevance, the idea for the show was inspired by discussions with an Australian nun who is the longstanding curate of Bath Cathedral, UK. The image is the Chevron Hotel Elizabeth Bay, the fitst International Style hotel built in Australia.