Presents a duo exhibition featuring new and archival wall-based works by London-based artist, musician, and poet, Stuart McKenzie; together with a series of new drawings and sculptural works by New York-based artist, Brad Kronz. Craftsmanship is employed by both artists in their respective ways, where techniques are developed out of habit rather than regiment, the motives loosely allude to domesticity and popular culture of the past.
McKenzie’s orange framed works showcase the artist’s archives from the last three decades, including paintings and collages. The works often feature domestic objects, such as envelopes, plastic bags and supermarket receipts, many of which are sewn together by way of a welt—particular to pocket making, which underscore his past as a studio assistant for Vivienne Westwood during the early 90’s, where he specialised in the construction and development of her corsetry line. The exhibition also features a series of new works where poems take the shape of collage, hand cut out of food packaging and printer tape.
In Kronz’s practice, the relationship between art and display is complicated, yet the work remains dry of relational attachments instead highlighting the material itself. Kronz’s drawings on display here are framed in either cedar blocks or hand-folded mat paper. The sculptures can be viewed as abstractions of furniture or domestic architecture—the large stage-like modular structure was built on site, unlike the other works in the exhibition. Similarly, the green standalone box-like sculpture was made with the same materials and also removable walls, but at a different pace and psychology.
The two practices overlap at the end of the gallery. The meticulousness within both of the artists’ practice is subtle but clear. Although different in form and craft, the impulse implies a likeness of sensitivity towards art making.
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