Under the Surface

Four emerging artists get under the surface of people’s everyday encounters and environments in a new exhibition at Artstation from 2 to17 February.

Under the Surface brings together recent Auckland University of Technology visual arts graduates Carolin Casey, Juliette Laird, Nyle Major and Stephen McWilliams in an exhibition set to challenge our common assumptions and understandings of the world around us.

Carolin Casey’s dramatic photographs of suburban streets by night question our perceptions of suburbia. The eerie photographs suggest hidden layers beneath the ordinary street settings. “They connect the emotional and the psychological to the real,” says Ms Casey.

Juliette Laird uses worn-out household items as her raw materials. She reshapes and unpicks materials and objects from the domestic realm to bring new artistic life to the mundane.

Nyle Major explores the notion of “the hero”. His paintings of heroic characters reveal close connections between real and ideal perceptions of the hero, or as Mr Major says, “what we dream a hero to be and what a hero actually is”.

Stephen McWilliams examines the nature of information, language and symbols in his vivid, abstract paintings.

Under the Surface is Artstation’s first exhibition of 2007. For more information about upcoming exhibitions please contact Artstation on 09 376 3221 or visit www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/artstation

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