Exhibition24.11.06 - 16.12.06
Melbourne-based Katherine Huang’s sprawling assemblages explore and extend the inherent poetic and formal qualities in found materials. Huang, who was selected to participate in this year’s Primavera at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, uses a range of materials including wood, coloured plastic, watercolours and tapestries in her sculptural installations. Kate Just has described Huang’s working process as “fervent interactions with dormant objects”. As Just claims in the catalogue accompanying this exhibition, Huang “works by moving objects around and around and around until they feel active, as parts and as a whole. Unfolding spontaneously and involving seemingly unrelated elements, the process is like automatic writing, only with objects.” Huang, who was the recipient of the prestigious Australia Council Greene St residency in New York in 2004, has made new work for this exhibition. Huang graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1996, and has had a number of solo exhibitions including Landscape File Under Furniture, GCAS (2004), and Chair with corn-yellow sock plus one cloud, EAF, Adelaide (2001). Her group exhibitions include, Primavera, MCA (2006), Vécu, Conical (2003), Concrete Living Room, First Floor (2000). |
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces is pleased to present new work by acclaimed young installation artist Katherine Huang in Studio 12 from November 24 – December 16 2006.