News Archive / EXHIBITIONS
IMAGINE | GIPPSLAND ART GALLERY | SALE
6 JAN - 18 MARCH 2018
One of the most exciting, ambitious, and beautiful exhibitions ever staged in regional Australia, 'Imagine' encompasses 134 works from 81 local, national, and international artists, to take visitors on a journey through five centuries of art making.
Revealing a history of the earth as told through the human imagination, from the fires of first creation through to the science and technology of today and beyond, imagine is an exhibition like no other.
21ST BIRTHDAY | FIRSTSITE GALERY | MELBOURNE
28 NOVEMBER - 8 DECEMBER 2017
This massive group show featured selected works new and from the recessive vaults of noteworthy alumni who’ve started their careers at (your) student gallery. Take an auspicious look over some of our hundreds of shows. More than 4,000 RMIT students have exhibited works in over 800 shows at First Site over the last 21 years. Catalogue available for purchase from the gallery.
(Images, Install view - Becc Ország ‘Stories Told’, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, 2009, Instal view - Becc Ország ‘Forsaken Monument (boy)’ 2016)
INCINERATOR ART AWARD: ART FOR SOCIAL CHANGE | INCINERATOR GALLERY | MELBOURNE
7 OCTOBER - 26 NOVEMBER 2017
OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER 6-8PM
Becc Ország is a finalist in this years Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change with her drawing 'Hope (align yourself with me)'. The Incinerator Art Award is $10,000 non-acquisitive award of national significance with entries received from every state and territory in Australia. The award showcases the work of 22 artists who interrogate contemporary culture in their practices to achieve and influence social change.
THIS WILD SONG | EXHIBITION, FORUM, LAUNCH | THE ART ROOM | MELBOURNE | 24 JUNE 2017
This Wild Song (TWS) is a series of over 150 portraits and interviews with Australian women visual artists who have a unique voice by photographer Ilona Nelson.
TWS celebrates the strong female leaders in the arts community. Although the artists being featured are from varying backgrounds, use a diverse range of mediums, and are at different stages of their arts career; they are unified by their unique voices and distinct style. The inclusion of so many artistic mediums in TWS offers a broad synopsis of contemporary Australian art. A special pop up exhibition is being held for the launch only, exhibiting works by 20 of the TWS artists including…
DARK SYMMETRIES | PS PROJECTSPACE | AMSTERDAM
27 NOVEMBER 2016 - 21 JANUARY 2017
Dark Symmetries brings together a cross section of international artists whose drawing practices intersect with the use of symmetry as a theme and formative device. Featuring Becc Orszag (Australia), Matt Feyld (Canada), Michelle Grabner (USA), Pieter Bijwaard (Netherlands), Riette Wanders (Netherlands) and Teo Treloar (Australia)….
DRAWING TO AN END | MARS GALLERY | MELBOURNE
3 DEC - 17 DEC 2016
MARS represented artists have each chosen a guest artist to exhibit with them in 'Drawing to an End', a group show of works on paper. Opening on Saturday, 3 December from 4-6pm, the exhibition shows a diverse selection of works on paper ranging in size, medium and subject matter from more than 40 Australian contemporary artists.
SANCTUARY | NICHOLAS PROJECTS | MELBOURNE
17 JUNE - 2 JULY 2016
Please join us for the opening of Becc Ország's solo exhibition on Friday the 17th June from 6pm. To be opened by Simon Gregg, Curator, Gippsland Art Gallery.
Becc Ország’s Sanctuary is an exploration of paramnesia, in which fantasy is confused with reality. This new series of drawings presents an idyllic yet perplexing world in which the profound coexists with the perturbed.
Becc's most ambitious drawing to date 'The Source of All Things (Birth of The Rivers)' has been selected as a finalist for the 2016 National Works on Paper Prize at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
Sixty-six artists from around Australia have been shortlisted from close to 1,000 entries for the $50,000 National Works on Paper prizes and acquisitions. The prize, the most prestigious acquisitive prize and exhibition of its type in Australia, showcases recent works by artists working in the fields of drawing, printmaking, digital prints and paper sculpture.
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INAUGURAL | NICHOLAS PROJECTS | MELBOURNE
6 NOVEMBER - 6 DECEMBER 2015
New Melbourne gallery Nicholas Projects presents its first ever exhibition 'Inaugural' with works by Natasha Bieniek, Heath Franco, Robert Hague, Tristan Jalleh and Becc Orszag to be opened by Sam Leach 6pm Friday November 6th.
