KAYE MAHONEY
Paintings and video presentations
OPENED SUNDAY MARCH 15

OPEN TIL APRIL 5, 2009

THROUGHOUT CASTLEMAINE STATE FESTIVAL

Kaye seen her with her large work Score for Falling Notes, oil on canvas , 48 x 60 inches (122cm x 152cm)

and her small triptych works sold individually.

The following image is the series also inspired by musical scores,

all oil on canvas at 12 x 16 inches (30.5 cm x 40.6cm) seen in picture;

Mellifluent Notes 2 (emerald), Mellifluent Notes 1 (ruby)NFS
Floating Notes 3 (gold/ochre), Mellifluent Notes 5 (gold/orange) and Mellifluent Notes 4 (umber) Floating Notes 1 (green)

Opening launched by the Mayor of Bendigo,Councilor Kevin Gibbins, who apologised for his attire having just left the side of attending a birthing mare and foal! Such is the duel life of a country existence.

Kaye and Godwin with Kaye's beautiful work in background Haze 6 (falling notes) oil on canvas 48 x 60 inches

click here to see amusing speech by Godwin Bradbeer on Kaye's work

People who attended the exhibit

 

Jane Barnes (wife of Jimmy Barnes and sister of Kaye) with Pierre Baroni, photographer

Pierre Baroni

(Click here to see excerpt of his opening speech by Kate Ceberano the following night and examples of his work)

www.nexusmodernart.com.au/Artist/65/Pierre+Baroni.aspx

Zoe Amor

click here to see her website and art work www.zoeamor.com

and the wonderful

Godwin Bradbeer. Click link to see images from his show with Gallery Infinart or follow links to find his Melbourne central representation.

www.infinart.com.au/artistexhibitarchive_lge.html

Tim Smith composer for Kaye's progressions

seen here with Laura Hamilton centre, and with Jane Barnes and Laura right.

Craig McDonald sculptor on far left

Click here to see his art work www.green-woodgallery.com/?module=artists&art_id=113

Godwin, gallery owner and artist Samantha and artist Michael Jewel central. click here to see his work

www.michaeljewel.com.au

About this work

GALLERY INFINART is pleased to announce Kaye Mahoney's, harmonic motion, a show of abstract paintings and video progressions of paintings as they evolve.

Kaye Mahoney's paintings and digital video progressions draw from musical inspiration and elements of the natural world, invoking the elemental phenomena of life: a sense of air, water, light or energy in its passage through time. Subtle and evocative, these diaphanous abstractions have a luminosity achieved by the building up of many veils of paint, revealing themselves by degrees, layer by layer, sometimes within a rhythmic grid or structure marked by chromatic and tonal shifts. 

harmonic motion is a reflective and melodic exploration that invites the viewer to look through the veiled tranquility of the surface to a spectrum of possibilities, while encouraging  an improvisational way of seeing. Working with models of abstraction that approach musical, sensory and mnemonic concepts and experiences, each piece is modulated by the balanced structure inherent in the concept of "harmonic motion" on the one hand -- and on the other, the freedom of John Cage's musical strategies in which chance events and the unintended are honored.

The term "harmonic motion" is used in physics to describe an iterative, oscillatory motion under a restoring force that is proportional to a displacement from an initial state of equilibrium. In this body of work, Mahoney recognizes both the blank and finished states of her canvas as states of equilibrium – and her own process as a displacing and restoring force. Once the blank canvas is disturbed by painting there is an urge to apply a restoring force, to affect this displacement with a proportional reverse action. Through a process of oscillation between painterly action and chance, accidental or improvised events, she seeks to restore balance. Her paintings rest when she senses that they feel "in tune", in other words, restored to a state of equilibrium.

 Mahoney's digital video progressions, visual reflections of her paintings, record and replay the unedited, unmediated process of creation. Made during the evolution of the paintings, stop motion animations show the frame by frame blending of markings, additions and cancellations. For the artist, both paintings and progressions are arrangements and visual scores that encapsulate multiple slices of unmeasured time, viewed in the present, as the cumulative register of successive events. Thus she is able to shed light on the incremental revelation of visions as they take on tangible form.  The viewer witnesses a transformation of the nominal to the phenomenal – concept to object to experience - while focusing on the "in between" moments that span the beginning and the end.

 Kaye Mahoney was born in Thailand and was educated in Italy, Australia and the United States.  She lives and works in New York City.  Mahoney has an MFA from the New York Academy of Art, a BA/LLB from the Australian National University, and a degree in Fresco and Mural techniques from Il Lab oratorio per Affresco di Vainella, Tuscany, Italy. Mahoney has exhibited works and installations and undertaken fresco and mural commissions in the United States, Italy, France, Australia, Spain and Thailand.