Encounters @ Glen Eira City Council

Karen Woodbury Gallery artists Jane Burton and Simon Obarzanek have been included in an exhibition Encounters to be held at the Glen Eira City Council Gallery.

Curated by Diane Soumilas, the exhibition will investigate how each of the artists respond to themes of personal history, memory, identity, ritual, presence and absence, responding to specific sites in public, private, staged and natural environments.

Encounters offers a diverse mix of media (photography, performance, drawing and video installation) and is linked by each of the artists shared sense of the interrelationship between the body, space and time. 

The exhibition opens on Wednesday the 30th of May 2012 for drinks at 6.30pm and will continue until June 24th 2012.

Click here for more information about the show.

Jane Burton, White Stain #9, 2011, pigment print, 110.0 x 110.0cm

Simon Obarzanek, Untitled movement no.2 #6, 2010, C-type hand print, 100.0 x 120.0cm

Call out for portrait participants

Call-out!

Simon Obarzanek is looking for participants to have their portraits taken in his latest video project The 'Movement'.

The 'Movement' is a close-up portrait of subjects who will be shot exercising on a cross-training machine located at West Space gallery, Melbourne.

He is looking for people who:

Are willing to exercise to a state of complete exhaustion for between 10 and 20 minutes and are aged between 18 and 60 years old.

Subjects do not need to be fit to participate in this project. All you need is a black T-shirt.

If you are interested please email Simon Obarzanek to arrange a time for filming: videoportraits2012@hotmail.com

Simon Obarzanek | Ipswich Art Gallery

Simon Obarzanek's 80 faces (2006) body of work will feature in, Face in a crowd: new portraiture at Ipswich Art Gallery from today until 13 November.

The exhibition will present works by four contemporary artists, including Justine Khamara, David Rosetzky, Simon Obarzanek and Denis Beaubois examining the complex issue of individual identity within today's ever-changing, global and consumer focused culture.

Simon Obarzanek: Photofile

Kirsten Rann has written a feature piece on the work of gallery artist, Simon Obarzanek, titled Unperfect Bodies in the current and final print issue of Photofile 91: The Body and Space.