Yang
"Yang" - The Exhibition
Opening on the 25th of August 2017, from 6pm.
There will be a door prize for the best dressed male.
Free admission.
Invitation for Artists to exhibit in "Yang".
Serpentine Community Gallery
is proud to offer an opportunity to exhibit in
"Yang" - an investigation/celebration
into the masculine energy Yang
and it's many MANifestations.
Open to Artists who live in the Northern Rivers.
Bring artworks to the Serpentine by the 22nd August.
Exhibition will run until 18th September.
Yin Yang is the Tao expression of opposites in nature,
such as light/dark,
hot/cold,
negative/positive,
female/male.
The word Yin comes out to mean “shady side”
and Yang “sunny side”.
The symbol for Yin Yang is two teardrop shapes
nestled within each other,
as a white growing crest (male)
folded over a black valley or dark trough of a wave (female).
Contained within each is a part of the other
(white dot on dark female,
and dark dot on light male).
Serpentine Gallery is proud to present "Yang",
an exhibition investigating and celebrating the "masculine" part of the gender duality.
Here, artists are invited to present the light yet impregnable male,
balanced with a little touch of the dark, fecund feminine.
This upcoming exhibition will represent the wholistic masculine in all his MANifestations:
fatherhood, passion, growth, brightness - all that is structured and firm: our inner-strength.
Artists are invited to represent the full potential as male containing female,
or an amalgam of these forces, balanced as sacred energies.
“The Hindus say that without Shakti, the personified feminine life force,
Shiva, who encompasses the masculine ability to act, becomes a corpse.
She is the life energy that animates the male principle,
and the male principle in turn animates action in the world.” ~ Clarissa Pinkola Este.
Opening night entertainment:
a spontaneous jam session of clarinet, guitar, percussion
and the wonderful jazz tones of Janelle Buckely.
'Hello Daddy'
charcoal on paper
- This drawing aims to capture moments of a new father bonding with his child. -
Artist's Statement
'Masked'
is the 2nd piece from my "Initiation" series.
Our unspoken pact.
Our culture has a superficial and
narrow idea of what masculinity is,
and it requires men to constantly
prove their manhood by adhering to it:
"real men" do not feel or express emotions
and do not show weakness.
Once boys have been taught to
wear this mask, it is not easy to take it off
and connect to others and oneself.
Is it surprising then, that men are more likely
to be the perpetrators and victims of violence?
The exhibition "Initiation" took place
'A lot of water over the bridge'
acrylic on canvas
'Ekhart Tolle and the pain bodies'
mixed media
'Blue Henry'
High-definition print on ACM*
Henry Rollins
Pastel Art Portrait Print
A3 size (12 x 17 in. or 30 x 42cm.)
Created for Henry Rollin's
Lismore, N.S.W. Australia performance
on his 2016 World Tour.
This artwork hung on location
as a giant (ACM) digital Print
at the Starcourt Theatre
where Henry's performance took place.
by James DeWeaver
(*Aluminium Composite Material
- smoke, sunlight, water & humidity resistant)
'Lovers in my Country'
acrylic on canvas
- This painting depicts two gay Aboriginal men celebrating sexual diversity in
Aboriginal communities. -
by Michael Philp
'The Budgie Smuggler'
Giclee print
by Neil Howe
(... found a new home to go to
on the opening night of "Yang.")
'Heavenly Father'
acrylic on canvas
- This painting depicts my father leaving this earthly realm
Going to Heaven, the dream time crossing over. -
by Michael Philp
'Where gods lived'
'City of the Gods'
'Waves'
artworks by Leigh Arnold
Artist Statement
Four sweltering summers ago,
I sat in the hot little warehouse studio painting this.
Jackson came in and said he could feel a tingling in his arm
- “should I call mother?”
“I don't know? Perhaps, yes”.
We were to do a collaborative exhibition
called “Reflections”.
It was to be Ray Moller, Jackson Gooch and myself.
We had picked the colour scheme tones of blue and ochre.
I lay the last strokes for the day, put away my brush
and thought to myself “I hope Jackson is ok.”
That night Jackson had a stroke.
This was the last time I laid brush on canvas.
This piece is unfinished.
I call it 'The last Stroke'.
August 2017
'The last Stroke'
oil on canvas
by Janelle Buckley
'Dragon', 'Dragon Fighter' and 'Dragon 2'
'Dreamer'
ceramic artworks by Ray Moller
'Tatarmi Dreaming'
'Tatarmi Dreaming 1'
mixed media artworks by Vicki Grey
