Deborah Poynton to exhibit large scale paintings at KZNSA.Deborah Poynton’s Everything Matters follows the artist’s first solo show in the United States last year at the Savannah College of Art and Design’s galleries in Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, and a solo exhibition at Michael Stevenson in Cape Town also in 2009.
The exhibition at the KZNSA will comprise large-scale paintings from her Everything Matters series as well as her new series entitled Arcadia. In the Everything Matters paintings, Poynton creates highly defined spaces, detailed with furniture, drapery and accumulations of objects in which she placed her subjects. Her subjects, whether on their own or in relationship to each other, challenge our engagement as they look out at us, looking in. Every element in her compositions contributes to an overall tautness that amplifies the emotional ambiguity and power of the scenes depicted. At the same time, her spare use of realism avoids the seductions of surface itself, to focus on what is communicated. For the first time Poynton will also be showing two landscapes from her new cycle of ten large paintings entitled Arcadia.
Everything Matters opens on March 23 at 18h00 to runs until April 17 at the KZNSA Gallery at 166 Bulwer Road, Glenwood, in Durban. More information on 031 277 1703, fax 031 201 8051 or cell 082 220 0368 or visit www.kznsagallery.co.za
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