A Matter of Perspective
A Matter of Perspective
June 28 – August 13, 2022
Reception: Saturday, July 9, 2 – 5pm
Lonsdale Gallery is pleased to present a matter of perspective, featuring Andrew Ooi’s geometric abstract relief sculptures and Tyler Matheson’s dynamic concrete paintings. This exhibition explores questions of identity, transformation, and perception. In the words of English art critic John Berger: “The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.” Ooi and Matheson’s respective material explorations, combined with their use of mirroring and repetition patterns, invite viewers to open themselves up to new modes of seeing the world, which in turn has the potential of reframing one’s concept of self.
Tyler Matheson’s latest series ‘Oblivion’, builds upon the artist’s sustained invagination of identity and performativity. Presented alongside a selection of the artist’s ‘Parallax’ series, of vivid and colourful concrete paintings, Matheson sheds light on the complex relationship between selfhood and perception. Matheson creates highly textured rich paintings using unconventional industrial material, like tiling grout. The artist utilizes thick and gestural applications of grout, forming a rigid and uneven texture on the surface of the canvas.
As an artist, Matheson carefully considers his chosen materials and how they will be viewed to encourage an embodied energetic exchange between the viewer and the work, to create what the artist refers to as a “codependent performance”. What emerge are eye-catching dynamic compositions, which shift and transform depending on the position of the viewer.
Similarly, Matheson’s ‘Oblivion’ series plays with spatial relationships between the viewer and the work. In lieu of a vivid saturated colour pallet, Matheson adopts more subdued industrial grey hues, accentuated with inlays of reflective iridescent forms. These reflective zones mirroring the viewer back to themselves. As the series title suggests, the pieces evokes an unconscious state of limbo, caught between being and becoming.