Deborah Poynton - The Human Abstract
Mar 24 - May 4 2018
46 7th Ave, Parktown North
Named after a poem from William Blake's Songs of Experience, Poynton uses Blake’s assertation that every virtue requires an opposite to exist, such as good and evil, as a starting point. Using loose brushwork and unpainted spaces, figures and objects are isolated within finely-detailed realistic canvases as Poynton explores the paradoxes present in modern-day living.
Poynton describes the paintings as having an absence of certainty and being filled with only the smaller reassurances that she craves in a world filled with often painful contradictions. “Passages lead to and from nowhere in particular, and yet everything is particular. I can only offer those small reassurances that I crave for myself: light at the end of the tunnel, nostalgia for the idea of an image, funny moments, an attachment to place and stuff."
Opening event Sat March 24 from 10:00.