Justin Andrews and Kyle Jenkins (Australia)
COLOUR AND FORM 1

Exhibition 12 - 22 July 2006

For the second time in as many weeks the mid-semester break has delivered Canary Gallery a stellar two person collaborative installation. This week's out-of-town tutors are: Justin Andrews from Melbourne andKyle Jenkins from Queensland.

Through the COLOUR AND FORM exhibition series, Andrews and Jenkins attempt to develop an abstract visual language through the reiteration of recognized minimalist techniques. Employing expansion of the painted field, repetition and re-interpretation within changing geo-social and environmental locations, both artists are exercising colour and form in installation, site-specific and architectonic fields of inquiry.

"Australia's analytical/intellectual conservatism has bred a form of geometric abstraction that has moved towards the graphic, to the technical, to the process driven. New Zealand, in addition, has also fed its strong sense of repeated deign and motif into this equation." JA

Each COLOUR AND FORM exhibition is a meeting point between both of the artist's signature styles. It aims to realize works that encourage the viewing of colour as form. At Canary Andrews and Jenkins have employed a deliberately constrained amount of materials and time to produce concentrated outcomes. The result of this condensed process is a form of work that is partially designed, and partially effected by the physical dynamics of the space it is constructed for. Both artists are in Auckland to install the works from scratch over a two day period.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Justin Andrews and Kyle Jenkins are Australian artists who have worked consistently within the field of geometric abstraction for a number of years. Both are associated with artist-run spaces - Sydney Non Objective, and the Inverted Topology collaboration project. Both maintain a multi-disciplinary art practice, and are active in research that is specific to their field. Following Colour and Form1 at Canary Gallery, the last exhibition shows some of the luminary artworks that have been seen at Canary in nearly three years. Justin Andrews also has a show opening 19 July at rm 103, 'Wall Drawings' with Stephen Bram.