Short Stories, Tall Tales, and the Way They Wore Them
Alvaro Alvarez
Not titled2002
graphite and pastel 330 x 250 mm
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday 16 July – Saturday 23 August 2008
APA Gallery 24 High Street Northcote VIC 3070
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm, Sat 10am-1pm
‘Short Stories, Tall Tales, and the Way They Wore Them’ is a group exhibition at Arts Project Australia, to be opened by Rose Chong, on Tuesday the 15th of July 2008. The exhibiting artists explore narrative through the figure and costume in art.
All the works subtly segue between fact and fiction; the short story and the tall tale. The figure is turned to, and dressed, in a way that moves us from reading the work as an individual portrait about a particular sitter. Instead, these figures come to symbolize, like characters in a story, something universal; expressing ideas and broaching themes much broader then themselves.
Artists: Maryanne Agius, Alvaro Alvarez, Samantha Ashdown, Monica Burns, Kieren Carol, Alan Constable, Leo Cussen, Brigid Hanrahan, Kelvin Heffernan, Paul Hodges, Adrian Lazzaro, Anne Lynch, Miranda Millane, Jodie Noble, Robin Plowman, Lisa Reid, Barbara Veheary, Terry Williams and Steven Worrell.