dianne tanzer gallery + projects goes overseas…

May 14, 2013

dianne tanzer gallery + projects will be closed Monday 20 May  - Wednesday 29 May whilst we are exhibiting at Art Basel Hong Kong. We won’t be without our iPads so do not hesitate to email any enquiries to dtanzer@ozemail.com.au. Check Facebook and Twitter for continuous updates of our solo presentation with Juan Ford!

Yhonnie Scarce is also packing her bags for the Venice Biennale – opening the last week of May. Watch this space for news and images of Yhonnie’s work at the Palazzo Bembo as part of this prestigious exhibition!

ARTIST TALKS

JUAN FORD @ Art Basel Hong Kong, Thursday 23 May
2pm at Booth 3D-18

YHONNIE SCARCE @ Personal Structures, Friday 31 May
4pm at Palazzo Bembo, Venice

Juan Ford, Entwine and Implode, Detail, 2013, oil on linen, 91x71cm

Yhonnie Scarce, Blood on the Wattle, Detail, 2013, 292 pieces blown glass, perspex, steel, aluminium and fabric, 210x70x60cm

These projects have been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its funding and advisory body.

YHONNIE SCARCE ON TV!

May 1, 2013

The upcoming episode of Colour Theory with Richard Bell will feature our very own Yhonnie Scarce!

Colour Theory is a new art series from NITV looking at cutting edge and developing communities and collectives that are producing contemporary work that reflects the up and coming artistic development within the creative Indigenous community, that up until now has had little exposure to a wider society.

Be sure to watch NITV this Sunday 5th May at 8pm!

CHARLES ROBB + YHONNIE SCARCE @ NGV AUSTRALIA

April 16, 2013

Key works by Charles Robb and Yhonnie Scarce held in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria are now on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia.

Charles Robb’s sculptural work Trophy, acquired by the Gallery in 2003, can be viewed in the NGV Australia entrance foyer, while Yhonnie Scarce’s major works The Collected (2010) and Oppression, Repression (Family Portrait) (2004) feature in the new re-hang of the Indigenous Galleries on the ground level.

Yhonnie Scarce, Oppression, Repression (Family Portrait), 2004, blown glass, photographs and commercially manufactured jars, dimensions variable

Charles Robb, Trophy, 2002, fibreglass, polyester resin, synthetic polymer paint, steel, dimensions variable
installation view, National Gallery of Victoria 

YHONNIE SCARCE – CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS AUSTRALIA

March 26, 2013

Yhonnie Scarce‘s inclusion in Personal Structures, an official collateral exhibition of the 55th International Venice Biennale, has been registered with the Australian Cultural Fund facilitated by Creative Partnerships Australia to allow our supporters to make tax-deductible donations.

As Yhonnie’s unique glass works are being acquired by museums worldwide but are sometimes not readily collectible for art lovers, this is a perfect opportunity to support her career and work by making a tax-deductible donation that will directly benefit Yhonnie and this important cultural project.

If you would like to make a donation to Yhonnie’s project, please visit her profile on the Creative Partnerships Australia website.

Yhonnie Scarce, The Collected, 2010, found wooden boxes and blown glass, dimensions variable
Collection National Gallery of Victoria 

COMING SOON @ DIANNE TANZER GALLERY + PROJECTS

March 6, 2013

CHARLES ROBB
LOSS CONTROL

Loss Control is a solo exhibition of new sculptural works by Charles Robb. Loss Control was conceived as part of an ongoing self-portraiture project, shaped by the artist’s interest in figurative and incidental form – especially the mundane objects and materials that accumulated in the studio during the modeling and casting process.  In bringing these very different orders of objects together Robb seeks to testify to the strange slippages and correspondences that occur in the studio, and the new subjectivities that they produce.

23 March – 20 April 2013
dianne tanzer gallery + projects

Exhibition preview: 21 – 22 March 2013

JUAN FORD
ART BASEL HONG KONG

We are proud to announce that we will be presenting a solo exhibition of new major paintings by Juan Ford at the premier edition of Art Basel in Hong Kong.

23 – 26 May 2013
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC), Hong Kong

Juan Ford, Disobey Yourself, 2013, oil on linen, 91 x 71cm

YHONNIE SCARCE
VENICE BIENNALE

Yhonnie Scarce has been selected to feature in Personal Structures: Time, Place, Existence, a collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale.

1 June – 24 November 2013
Palazzo Bembo, Venice

Yhonnie Scarce, Burial Ground 2012, 224 pieces blown glass, Collection Art Gallery South Australia

To register your interest in any of our exciting projects please email dtanzer@ozemail.com.au.

YHONNIE SCARCE – AUSTRALIAN EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION

Yhonnie Scarce and Colombian artist Alberto Baraya are exhibiting together in Border Plantings at the Australian Experimental Art Foundation.

In conjunction with this exhibition, both artists will be presenting artists’ talks as part of the Unsettling Occupations International Symposium on 13 – 15 March at the University of South Australia. To register for the Symposium please email MnM-Centre@unisa.edu.au.

Exhibition dates: 15 March – 13 April 2013
Exhibition venue: Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

Yhonnie Scarce, The Day We Went Away, 2004, 40 pieces of blown glass, found suitcase, dimensions variable

YHONNIE SCARCE / VENICE BIENNALE / BLOUIN ART INFO

March 1, 2013

An article featuring Yhonnie Scarce has just been released regarding Personal Structures – Collateral Event of the 55th Venice Biennale! Click here to read Nicholas Forrest’s piece about her inclusion in this important exhibition along with Dale Frank, Sally Gabori and Sam Jinks.

YHONNIE SCARCE – VENICE BIENNALE

February 26, 2013

Yhonnie Scarce has been selected to feature in Personal Structures: Time, Place, Existence, a collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale. The exhibition is held at the Palazzo Bembo, Venice and runs concurrently with the Biennale (1 June – 24 November 2013). Curated by the Global Art Affairs Foundation, this exhibition will bring together an international combination of established and emerging artists with a common dedication to the concepts of time, place and existence.

Yhonnie Scarce’s work explores the oppressive conditions used to subjugate Australian Aboriginal people, and the ensuing effects of colonial rule on contemporary Aboriginal culture. Through research into her family’s experiences, Scarce’s glasswork engages with the issue of containment of Aboriginal people, including the forcible removal of these people from their land and the subsequent practice of eugenics. Scarce’s work incorporates her personal histories and research with artifacts from the past, hence highlighting the legacy of issues related to white settlement in dialogue with the present.

Recently in 2012 Scarce has held a residency and exhibited at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum, University of Virginia USA and participated in Aboriginal art symposiums at Seattle Art Museum and the Hood Museum, New Hampshire. In 2013 Scarce is exhibiting at the National Gallery of Victoria, Heartland at the Art Gallery South Australia, the Western Australia Indigenous Art Awards, and the Australian Experimental Art Foundation.

Yhonnie Scarce, Burial Ground 2012, 224 pieces blown glass, Collection Art Gallery South Australia

Yhonnie Scarce – 2012 Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award

November 14, 2012

Yhonnie Scarce is a finalist for the Cicely & Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award 2012. Exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria, the 2012 prize is dedicated to vessels and the notion of containment.
This ‘Award of Excellence’ focuses on contemporary design practice in the state of Victoria and is a reflection of the NGV’s continuing support for and commitment to contemporary design. It is arguably the richest and most prestigious prize ever offered to a contemporary designer in Australia, with a prize of $30,000.

The exhibition opens Friday 23 November.

Yhonnie Scarce, Not Willing to Suffocate, 2012, blown glass, painted metal, 3 parts each 65 x 15 x 20cm, Photography Janelle Low.

Omission – Michael Cook & Yhonnie Scarce

October 13, 2012

Glenn Iseger-Pilkington has curated Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts‘ current exhibition omission. This exhibition explores Australia’s tragic colonial history, in particular the overt culture and practice of division, exclusion and omission of Indigenous peoples, their cultures, their landscapes and the creatures that occupy them. The exhibition continues until 28 October 2012.

Seven indigenous artists Bindi Cole, Michael Cook, Fiona Foley, Sandra Hill, Danie Mellor, Reko Rennie and Yhonnie Scarce   each interrogate these omissions. They give voice to those who did not have that opportunity while simultaneously paying homage to their Indigenous ancestors. They make a loud and unapologetic declaration that such injustices and atrocities shall not go unwritten, unmade or unremembered.

Michael Cook, Stickman, 2011, inkjet print on archival Hahnemuhle cotton paper, 40x100cm, ed 8