Gippsland Art Gallery  |  18 May to 28 July 2019  |  Free Entry

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Gippsland Art Gallery is delighted to present Good Vibrations, an exhibition of colourful recent works by Swifts Creek-based artist Allan Fox.

Good Vibrations comes fifty-two years after Fox’s first exhibition of hard-edge geometric abstraction in Sale—the first of its kind anywhere in the region. Fox returns to Gippsland Art Gallery in a blaze of energy and precision, wrought through razor-sharp planes of colour that jostle within tight picture frames. Good Vibrations is an exhibition of visual pop and fizz; of spring-loaded pressure and release charged with an electric potency.

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Image Caption: Allan Fox, Untitled, 2016, gouache on paper, 55.7 x 53cm. Courtesy the artist.

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While the echoes of 60s abstraction linger on, Fox’s work represents an elegant evolution of one of art’s greatest revolutions: geometric abstraction. He says:

“My work strives for the depiction of energy fields by the use of meaningful design, colour, and a dynamic, forceful geometry.”

Visitors to the exhibition will discover colours and shapes within complex but beautiful compositions that dance to a brazen, though disciplined, energy. There will be much to see, with over seventy works spanning the last decade. Remarkably Fox’s work has not a mark or a line out of place. The hand of the artist is carefully removed to produce a smooth, immaculate finish. Yet for all their ‘hard edges’ Fox’s paintings radiate warmth and humanity. They reveal a sincerity and a quirky humour that is utterly at odds with the current culture of fine art.

An exhibition celebration for Good Vibrations will be held on Friday 31 May at 6.00pm, with opening remarks from artists Colin Suggett and Paul Satchell. All are welcome to attend, and refreshments will be provided.

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