The exhibition, 'Plants Dogs Dots & The Spaces Between', at Upstairs Flinders Gallery is Alizon Grays second solo show for 2006.

Gray's practice seeks to explore the materiality and the substance of paint. Drawing on painterly tradition she explores various modes of representation and image making. Each painting is a testing ground where Gray experiments with the juxtaposition of colour, image, and material. Through the use of dots, drips, sprays, brush strokes, and projected image forms begin to develop and emerge. The paintings within this exhibition are an investigation into various processes in mark making and layering to build up rich and lustrous surfaces through the use of vibrant colour and enamel paint.

Gray allows the paint to move and have a force of its own. As it drips and dribbles over the surface chance must play its role as it affects the outcome of the painting. Hence, built into each layer of paint is an element of frustration, the nature of Gray's process forces mistake. Much of what is placed on the surface ends up disappearing under another layer. Yet elements remain and inform the outcome of the paintings. What emerges in these works is a stillness and silence out of the strata of uncertainty and discontent.

Plants Dogs Dots & The Spaces Between opens on the 1st and closes on the 14th of September, 2006. This is an exhibition that explores painterly process, transformation through becoming and disappearing, ornament in mark making, and beauty in the abstract.

For further details or queries please contact the artist on 0408 568 889 or email alizon@optusnet.com.au