Judy Millar: Rock drop, reminiscent of Roy Liechtenstein's colourful pop art works such as the famous “brushstroke”. Millar extends on ideas of abstract surrealism of
something not being what it really is, to visualize the brushstroke and the
movement of the artist, and the three dimension nature of creating art you
would expect the piece to use paint itself as a medium. However, ironically satirically the
brushstrokes are jet-printed from her original paintings, to give a cartoon
like feel, and the idea of dimension is created from the large size of the
sculpture. The sculptural shape itself is injected and conjoint with pieces of
plywood that piece to together, like a puzzle, and give an aerial like
appearance.
Millar says she was inspired by Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ at the
start of making the creation. T he main character wanders through shipwrecks
and sees natural rock formations. Millar says, “they think the rocks move…which
of course is not true, it’s just the perception of them is so difficult. So
this idea of wandering rocks and how perception alters or challenges us was
really a lot to do with the title.[1]” ‘Rock
drop’ installation is available to view on level one of the Auckland City Art
Gallery on Lorne street in the city.
Further along Lorne
street, is the Gow Langsford Gallery which houses several other paintings by
Millar, which is noted to display “the gesture of painting.[2]”
1 https://www.noted.co.nz/culture/arts/artist-judy-millar-creates-a-show-stopper-at-auckland-art-gallery/
2 https://www.gowlangsfordgallery.co.nz/artists/judy-millar
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