‘Annemarie Grgich – archaeologies of the extraordinary everyday’
Curated by Professor Colin Rhodes, Dean, Sydney College of the Arts
Open October 4, 2009 – December 13, 2009
Born in Portland, Oregon in 1961, Annemarie Grgich began making spontaneous art at the age of fifteen, mostly by clandestinely painting in her family’s books, or making junk constructions. She first introduced collage into her work around 1988, but took it to a higher level in 1997 during a period of illness. When she had recovered, later that year she began to produce collage paintings – images of people encountered over time in the street and in mind journeys that manifest themselves and recombine, according to her mood, in the process of creation. Collage helps to effect an almost alchemical transformation in the works, through its function as sign, to its active involvement in the dialogue between paint, drawing and resin. Anne’s works rarely include text, yet they are narrative-driven, reaching a kind of apogee in her magnificent handmade books, in which image and physicality combine as analogues of living experience. Though well-known in the USA, this will be Grgich’s first solo exhibition in Australia.
The University Art Gallery is located in War Memorial Arch, the northern end of the historic University of Sydney Quadrangle, Science Road, The University of Sydney. It is open Monday to Friday, 10am to 4.30pm and Sundays, 12 to 4pm. All are welcome and entry is free. Phone: (02) 9351 6883. For further information please contact Nerida Olson, Public Relations and Marketing Manager, Sydney College of the Arts on (02) 9351 1016 or n.olson@sca.usyd.edu.au
Annemarie Grgich – archaeologies of the extraordinary everyday