Kim Adams and Greg Curnoe – the everyday

Kim Adams, Condo Box, 2003, HO scale model parts, 9" x 44" x 10"

Kim Adams, Condo Box, 2003, HO scale model parts, 9″ x 44″ x 10″

Kim Adams has over the years harnessed his and our imaginations, melding the everyday, the hardware store, the wrecking yard, the model maker’s store, to create substantial and thought provoking works such as Condo Box.

Here he has refined his materials to the essential elements, as part of a series of works from the early 2000′s that combined simple structures, minimalist art practice and the dockyard–the piling up of the containers–a nod towards a futuristic condo development on a barge at waters edge–the reflective surface of the black plastic mimicking the water.

Kim Adams, Condo Box, 2003, HO scale model parts, 9" x 44" x 10"

Kim Adams, Condo Box, 2003, HO scale model parts, 9″ x 44″ x 10″ (detail)


Greg Curnoe, Blue Sky, 1962, mixed media, 16" x 13"

Greg Curnoe, Blue Sky, 1962, mixed media, 16″ x 13″

Blue Sky and Richmond St. in London on this day of 1962. Curnoe’s studio was on Richmond St. where he created lists on lists and collages of the everyday–telling a story, a diary perhaps, a landscape, a still life, and an autobiography.

American art critic John Chandler claimed Curnoe had been making conceptual and process art before the terms were coined.

Curnoe chronicled his day-to-day routines – striking and ‘colourful’.

Posted February 7th, 2019, by admin.