Review
Wes Hill on Elizabeth Newman
Artforum International, Vol.59(5)
01/03/2021
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Abstract
Elizabeth Newman Griffith University Art Museum “No, no, no,” Elizabeth Newman is constantly stating in her work, while hinting at an ebullient “Yes!” The Melbourne-based artist asks us to look at the portals hidden in formalist tropes—at negatives that express positives and at barriers that surreptitiously let us in. Comprising works dating from 1989 to 2019, the show, smartly curated by Naomi Evans, was less than a full-dress retrospective, but it did concisely frame Newman’s intriguing career, which, fittingly for an artist obsessed with lacunae, has an almost decade-long hiatus from art at its center. The artist made a breakthrough series of text paintings not long before her temporary abstention from the art world, two of which, both Untitled, were high points of this show.
Details
- Title
- Wes Hill on Elizabeth Newman
- Creators
- Wes Hill
- Publication Details
- Artforum International, Vol.59(5)
- Publisher
- Artforum Inc; New York
- Identifiers
- 991012978833602368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts; Creative Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Review