Installation View, Ian Russell, Recent Works, 200 Gertrude Street, Naarm Melbourne. Copyright and Courtesy the artist. Image courtesy Gertrude Archive
2 February -
24 February 1990
200 Gertrude Street
200 Gertrude Street, FitzroyFront Gallery
"Contemporary art ahs substituted spray-on deodorant for the perfume. It has denied the need for transcendence. Blind to this, art has been absorbed by a materialistic, two-dimensional world and has spawned thin works sustained only by theory in a desert where nothing of substance can take root.
Behold! These paintings are an oasis, a cool hole in that flat light. The glint of pretty things. Morsels of nothingness. Homages to the unknown."
- Ian Russell
