2 / 12
18th January 2014, acrylic & resin-oilcolour on linen, 650 x 500mm
3 / 12
Installation view
4 / 12
22nd December 2013, acrylic & resin-oilcolour on linen, 650 x 500mm
5 / 12
15th December 2013, acrylic & resin-oilcolour on linen, 650 x 500mm
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Installation view
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20th January 2014, acrylic & resin-oilcolour on linen, 1400 x 1000mm
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8th December 2013, acrylic & resin-oilcolour on linen, 500 x 650mm
9 / 12
27th October 2013, acrylic & resin-oilcolour on prepared paper, 1000 x 700mm
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16th December 2013, acrylic & resin-oilcolour on linen, 700 x 900mm
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23rd October 2013, acrylic & resin-oilcolour on prepared paper, 700 x 1000mm
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Installation view of 23rd October 2013, 25th November 2013 and 1st December 2013
Evan Woodruffe, 7 x 2 = 14, 7 February - 1 March 2014
7 x 2 = 14
7 February - 1 March 2014
Evan Woodruffe titles his paintings with the date they're made. He doesn't want a title to influence how we approach his intriguing narrative paintings; their meanings are puzzling so that we can own them all the more. We use narrative to make sense of existence but while lives may be described, selves do not so neatly conform to a narrative model; they are more complex. Woodruffe employs an ambiguous narrative to offer an ever-expanding, indefinable sense of self.
The exhibition '7 x 2 = 14' opens Friday 7 February 2014, 6:00PM, closing on 1 March. This is the artists inaugural solo with the Gisborne Gallery.