joe wilson: Echo Chamber - 4th to 27th July

Rush 09 Before the Distance
2013
Acrylic on canvas
160 x 280cm •

The echo chamber effect in media discourse refers to the way information is exaggerated or distorted as it disseminates further from its source. In this environment, echoed opinions reinforce social norms and create barriers to critical discourse. Alternatively, artists often put information and their subjects through an echo chamber to de-stabilise normative thinking and create opportunity for discovery and debate.

In this exhibition three contemporaries explore genres of landscape, portraiture, sculpture, and abstraction. Joe Wilson, Dan O’toole, and Bennett reinforce each others individual practice through a close working relationship. Visual ties disclose a new generation of experimentation, aimed at developing themes and compositional strategies that seek to distinguish the as new Sydney painters.

Joe Wilson’s simplified representational landscapes are idealised analogues of an Australian tradition and art culture. Dan O’Toole reinvents himself by integrating his passion for portraiture through reproducing Polaroid photographs in oil paint. He captures a disquieting inner world of his subjects through a painted lens. He places them in a feedback loop of digital and physical distortions. http://earstotheground.net/ Bennett continues to refine compositional abstraction through a open ended formal studio practice. His experimentation resolves collage and painting into planes of complex and ambiguous beauty. http://b-e-n-n-e-t-t.com/