Jenny Watson’s paintings on Belgian linen and Japanese chintz are being presented at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in a solo exhibition titled "Peripheral Vision."The exhibition features seven large-scale paintings on Belgian linen, together with two smaller pieces on Japanese chintz that the artist sourced from a small sewing shop in Tsukuba, Japan. Embedded in feminism and punk, the readily recognized autobiographical and fictional aspects of Watson’s oeuvre are delivered in these works through her distilled conceptual approach, distinct vernacular vocabulary, and the intimate details of her personal life. These earnest yet playful paintings combine color, text, recurring figures, and subtle humor to create a powerful narrative. Though deliberately naive in style, the paintings are acerbic in their emotional detail; a signature, rudimentary expressionistic style that Watson continues to master since her strategic abdication of realism in the 1970s.The exhibition is a clever combination of the revelation of small and individually, seemingly insignificant fragments of her experience, using them as a framework to suggest a fuller, more complete, and revelatory account of life, work, thought, and feeling.Jenny Watson is one of Australia's most significant contemporary artists whose conceptual painting practice spans more than four decades. Most recently Watson presented “The Fabric of Fantasy,” a major museum survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2017). The exhibition later went on tour to Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2017-18). A survey exhibition titled “Chronicles” was also held at Griffith University Art Gallery in Brisbane (2016). Jenny Watson has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally since 1973, representing Australia at the 55th Venice Biennale in 1993. Watson has been included in prominent group exhibitions and biennales in Australia and overseas, including “Prospect” 1993 at the Schirn Kunsthalle, and Popism, curated by Paul Taylor, at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1982. Watson's works are held in major state and regional galleries in Australia, and in a number of overseas collections, including Ghent Museum, Belgium; Ulmer Museum, Germany; Yokohama Museum, Japan; Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan; and Vienna Academy of Arts and Craft, Vienna. Jenny Watson has exhibited with Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery since 1982.“Jenny Watson: Peripheral Vision” will be on view through June 2, 2018 at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, 8 Soudan Ln, Paddington NSW 2021, Sydney, Australia. For details, visit: www.roslynoxley9.comClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition. http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin
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