SONIC SURFACES
TONY TARASIEWICZ AND LEE PETTERSON
3 SEPTEMBER - 3 OCTOBER 2010
OPENING NIGHT 7.30PM, FRIDAY 3 SEPTEMBER
TONY TARASIEWICZ
Many of Tony's recent paintings express aspects of nature either terrestrial or celestial and reflect his interest in the formal relationship between sound and painting. He is concerned with the concept of ritual within the painting process, namely making marks with paint and other mediums that translate audible sound into visual form. The marks that are produced are synchronised with an immediate response to sound (usually produced vocally) using specific controlled body movement and fluidity. The sounds he makes or responds to, are rhythmic and repetitive in nature. He chooses to experiment with Euclidean/geometric forms for their intrinsic nature like music, to communicate on a universal level. He frequently take refuge in the circular composition because it possesses its own force of expression and symbolically represents continuation and motion of life in all its guises and seems an appropriate platform to express the intent of organic rhythm.
LEE PETTERSON
In this exhibition Lee reveals the pulsating evolution of his waveform patterns that have references to sound and light. Over the last 5 or 6 years Lee’s art has been evolving intuitively through multiple levels of patterns, layers, systems, processes and textures. Along with being a dedicated and visionary painter Lee is also a drum and bass producer and approaches painting and producing electronic music by evolving similar systems of thought. Instinctively he synthesises many themes, techniques and effects creating refined images loaded with similes and metaphors, and are influenced by computer generated images of sound. This reveals an intriguing exploration and awareness of aesthetics, identity, colour and texture. Lee’s painting is a fusion of neo expressionism (a sub sect of postmodernism) and Tachism (a more controlled or meditative version of Abstract Expressionism) and his latest work has been an attempt to illustrate the patterning of waveforms, i.e. Visualisation of sound.
From 1994 –1997 Lee completed his Diploma in Fine Arts majoring in sculpture / Mixed Media at the Oamaru School of Art, Otago Polytechnic and has completed a Graduate Diploma in Secondary Teaching, (Visual Arts and Art History).
