Rachael Garvey with Debbie Stenzel in background, 2012, Installation Shot
Selene Simcox, Mairangi Bay I, II, III, 2012, Acrylic on canvas
Rachael Garvey (left), Selene Simcox (right), 2012, Installation Shot
Disconnect/Reconnect/Revisited 2012, Installation Shot, The Depot Artspace, Devonport
Debbie Stenzel (left), Selene Simcox (right), 2012, Installation Shot
Rachael Garvey (left), Sin-Mae Chung (right), 2012, Installation Shot
Selene Simcox, Hop Scotch, 2012, Spray adhesive, 80gms Turmeric
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Disconnect/Reconnect/Revisited is a continuation of the dialogue on idenity between Sin-Mae Chung, Selene Simcox, Rachael Garvey and guest artist Debbie Stenzel.
Disconnect/Reconnect/Revisited is a collective exhibition commenting on the social constructs of how identity is viewed and interpreted.
Social construction is dependent on contingent variables of our social selves, which is reinforced through more social constructs. Within the folds of social construction is identity: personal identity, social and cultural identity and identity of place. It is the expression of identity through the eyes of the artist that is experienced in Disconnect/Reconnect/Revisited. Through a process of disengaging with the self, each artist re-examines identity from an altered perspective, challenging the predetermined and contrived social filters that identity is viewed through.
Whether the methods are through painted self portraits in an abstracted view of the self; or the process of character reconstruction and deconstruction of alter-egos through self portrait photography or the method of installation that comments on the feelings of the other, the alien each artist has gone through a method of withdrawal from their own identity and re-examining this identity from an altered perspective, challenging the pr-determined and contrived social filters that identity is viewed through.
Sin-Mae’s body of work looks at the idea of morphing through a process of repetitive self portraits. By repetition and re-examination of the own image, dissecting strokes and colour, the image becomes process driven, unrecognisable and detached from the original form.
Debbie Stenzel’s two video works talks of a time in her life when there is an invisible line between reality and her reality. Disconnected from ‘normal’ society, Stenzel’s work talks how people exist in different states but must continue to function within the normal space of society.
Artist Selene Simcox transfers painted impressions from a variety of surfaces in her environment. The painted impressions leave behind a footprint of the surfaces, exploring how place and identity can be transferred into meaning and nostalgia.
Utilising photography, artist Rachael Garvey explores the stereo-typical trappings of gender identity by impersonating numerous imagined and contrived male alter-egos.
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,600 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 27 trips to carry that many people.
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Selene Simcox Fencing 2011 Acrylic on canvas 456 x 610mm
Selene Simcox Reticulation 2011 Acrylic on canvas 760 x 760mm
Selene Simcox Builders Fence 2011 Acrylic and vinyl on canvas 405 x 405mm
Selene Simcox Lattice & Mosaic Tree (to right) 2011 Installation Shot
Selene Simcox Lattice (to the left) & Mosaic Tree Installation Shot 2011
Rachael Garvey Construction Worker Alter Ego # 1, 2, & 3 2011 Digital print - series one of four
Sin-Mae Chung An Echo of the Self Image 2011 Acrylic paint and gesso on canvas
Thank you Sin-Mae & Rachael. The show looks great! Thanks Mairangi Arts Centre 
And a big shout out to all of you who helped make it all possible – you know who you are !
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Sin-Mae Chung, Selene Simcox & Rachael Garvey
24 August – 10September 2011 Opening 5.30pm Wednesday 24 August
Artist Talk: Tuesday 31 August, 7 – 9pm
Disconnect/Reconnect is a collective exhibition commenting on the social constructs of how identity is viewed and interpreted.
Social construction is dependent on contingent variables of our social selves, which is reinforced through more social constructs. Within the folds of social construction is identity: personal identity, social and cultural identity and identity of place. It is the expression of identity through the eyes of the artist that is experienced in Disconnect/Reconnect. Through a process of disengaging with the self, each artist re-examines identity from an altered perspective, challenging the predetermined and contrived social filters that identity is viewed through.
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Selene Smcox 2011 Dream Land Acrylic on Duraseal Installation view
Selene Simcox 2011 Dream Land Acrylic on Duraseal Installation view
Selene Simcox 2011 Dream Land detail Acrylic on Duraseal
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YOU ARE WARMLY INVITED TO AN EXHIBITION BY THE STUDIO ARTISTS OF PROJECT-12
A rich collection of works reflecting the varied disciplines of the Studio artists that make up PROJECT-12. Please join us at the opening on Tuesday, July 19 from 5.30 for live music, food & wine and a feast for the eye!
Lynnemaree Patterson, Sharon Rochford, Nina Piyasheva, Selene Simcox, Sarah Tantrum, Melissa Dines, Nicki Manthel, John Horner, Janis Marler, Sue Collins, & Jude Nye
Exhibition Dates: open daily until & including 31 July 12 – 6pm (Sunday 11 – 3pm)
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