Nick Selenitsch
Pigment pen on paper
83 x 63cm (framed)
&
, 2018–2020Pigment pen on paper
83 x 63cm (framed)
Nick Selenitsch &
24 April –22 May 2021
Nick Selenitsch’s exhibition, &, continues the artist’s interest in refuting Aristotle’s law of the excluded middle – the notion that an idea, or an experience, must be either ‘this’ OR ‘that’. In abandoning this binary logic, his artworks playfully advocate for the importance of indeterminacy and midpoints. In this new series of drawings, the mutability of the ampersand is celebrated – as both symbol and image; language and sensation; singular and multiple.
Selenitsch’s art practice promotes the artistic and social importance of play in the formation of understanding. Through a variety of media – installation, drawing, sculpture, and public artworks – his works create an elemental language out of familiar forms where the impulse to achieve the goal of singular understanding is both continuously acknowledged and endlessly eschewed. He has achieved this by incorporating the aesthetics and motifs of games, sports and civic markings to make artworks that flirt ambiguously with the rules and procedures of their source.
Selected solo exhibitions
Mechanical Horses, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2018; The Mind on Fire, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne, 2018; Kangaroo Court, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Morwell, 2015; Nick Selenitsch – Play, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, 2014; Chalk and Clay, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2014; Folly, Plinth Projects, Edinburgh Gardens, Fitzroy, 2014; Relief, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2013; Felt, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2012; Structural Goals, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2011; Linemarking, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne, 2010; psychic income, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2009.
Selected group exhibitions
Overdrawn, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, 2018; Design & Play, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, 2016; TarraWarra Biennial: Endless Circulation, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, 2016; Merchant Cities, The Substation, Melbourne, 2014; The Gathering II: A survey exhibition of Australian sculpture, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Wangaratta, 2014; Pattern, Glen Eira City Council Gallery, Melbourne, 2014; Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013; Collage: The Heide Collection, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2013; New Psychedelia, UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, 2011; Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2010.
Artist’s profile
Nick Selenitsch
Pigment pen on paper
83 x 63cm (framed)
&
, 2018–2020Pigment pen on paper
83 x 63cm (framed)
Nick Selenitsch
Pigment pen on paper
83 x 63cm (framed)
&
, 2018–2020Pigment pen on paper
83 x 63cm (framed)
Nick Selenitsch
Pigment pen on paper
83 x 63cm (framed)
&
, 2018–2020Pigment pen on paper
83 x 63cm (framed)
Nick Selenitsch
Pigment pen on paper
83 x 63cm (framed)
&
, 2018–2020Pigment pen on paper
83 x 63cm (framed)