Frances Van Dammen: On Closer Examination

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Thu 10 Nov ’11, 6:00pm–8:00pm	Saving
Fri 11 Nov ’11, 10:00am–5:00pm	Saving
Sat 12 Nov ’11, 10:00am–4:00pm	Saving
Sun 13 Nov ’11, 11:00am–3:00pm	Saving
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Where: Letham Gallery, 35 Jervois Road, Ponsonby Show map

Restrictions: All Ages

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Admission: Free

Website:

www.lethamgallery.co.nz

Flowers and nature still lifes have been the subject of fascination for painters for many centuries. Vast arrays of every species of flower, in gardens and in vases have saturated modern art. Frances Van Dammen departs from this convention, smashes the vase and sets free the wildest veins of nature in On Closer Examination, an exhibition of new works by the talented, widely collected New Zealand artist.

Van Dammen presents a visual language that is neither entirely real or completely imagined. While trying to remain faithful to that which she observes, she is seduced by the possible; while her research is anchored in almost obsessive observational studies, the hand creating the work is diverted down a mysterious ‘what if’ path. The result is a sphere of intensely detailed plant life emerging from the deep blackness of the canvas beyond. Colours as beautiful as those plucked from nature itself, sealed in resin in a surreal, imagined reality.