OPENING NIGHT THURSDAY 2ND AUGUST 6-8PM
Becc Orszag is taking part in NotFair, a statellite fair to the Melbourne ArtFair. Searing line work, distended bodies, apocalyptic visions and lyrical poetics combine in a combustible confluence in the second instalment of the rigorously independent art event NotFair. It is a return to the hand, and somewhat anti-digital, creating a mutated discourse across painting, drawing, installation and photography.
Swan Hill Print + Drawing Awards 2012
'Dive Fest' - lithograph, edt 4, 60x48cm, 2011
Becc Orszag's latest lithograph Dive Fest has been selected as a finalist in the Swan Hill Print & Drawing Acquisitive Awards. The exhibition opening is Saturday 12 May and the exhibition will run until Sunday 8 July at the Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery.
Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery
12 May - 8 July
Horseshoe Bend, Swan Hill. VIC
www.swanhillart.com
FEATURE: Art Collector - Debutants
DEBUTANTES: BECC ORSZAG
by Ashley Crawford
Sometimes it just happens. Becc Orszag only finished studying at RMIT last year and it didn’t take long for the commercial galleries to come running. Orszag, wisely, cast around for advice and agreed to join Dianne Tanzer’s stable of artists. (Indeed, she has already appeared in Australian Art Collector, included in a feature on emerging talent in 2011.) She is now preparing for her first commercial gallery solo exhibition.
Read MoreEXHIBITION: 'Autocue' at Daine Singer Gallery
'The quiet walkover' (detail) - graphite and carbon pencil on paper, 28x38cm, 2011
AUTOCUE | DAINE SINGER GALLERY |MELBOURNE
8 - 31 OCTOBER 2011
OPENING NIGHT 13 OCTOBER 6PM
Becc Orszag’s drawings of eerie mountain scapes and figures engaged in ritualistic actions imply an unexplained history; off-handed notations and seemingly careless markings surround these meticulously rendered scenes. Working from found imagery, Orszag removes figures from their original contexts into dissected, re-imagined, illusionary realms. Gestures are exaggerated, mimicry is amplified and gazes are obscured. The artist explores the de-individualisation of society, voyeurism and the mindless acceptance of what we witness. – Daine Singer
AUTOCUE CATALOGUE ESSAY by Ashley Crawford
Daine Singer Gallery
8-31 October
325 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC
www.dainesinger.com
EXHIBITION: 'Point of no return' at dianne tanzer gallery
'Neutralisation' detail - graphite and carbon pencil on paper, 28x38cm, 2011
POINT OF NO RETURN | DIANNE TANZER GALLERY | MELBOURNE
27 AUGUST - 10 SEPTEMBER 2011
OPENING 20 AUGUST 3 - 5PM
Point of No Return opens this afternoon at diannetanzer gallery + projects. Becc Orszag is showing along side Raphael Buttonshaw, Tobi Clark, Katie Lee, Jessie Lumb & Becc Orszag. The exhibition is curated by Rachel Feery & Bettina Garnier.
dianne tanzer gallery + projects
27 August - 13 September
108 - 110 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, VIC
dtanzer@ozemail.com.au
www.diannetanzergallery.net.au
EXHIBITION: 'Launch' at Brunswick Arts
Becc Orszag, Silent Fall - carbon pencil and coloured pencil on paper, 2011.
Becc Orszag's drawings are being showcased in this years Launch exhibition at Brunswick Arts. Each year, LAUNCH brings together a group of recent graduates from higher education institutions around Melbourne. Always a highlight of the year’s exhibition calendar, LAUNCH is a survey of some of the year's most dynamic, diverse and insightful new work.
Brunswick Arts
2 - 17 April
2a Little Breese Street, Melbourne, VIC
www.brunswickarts.com.au
FEATURE: Art Collector - Undiscovered
UNDISCOVERED - AUSTRALIAN ART COLLECTOR ISSUE 56, 2011
BY ASHLEY CRAWFORD
Catastrophe comes in many forms and Becc Ország seems intent to capture it all in unsparing detail. Specialising in drawing - a form that seems to be increasingly acknowledged among collectors - Ország's work ranges from the remarkably meticulous to the errily obscured. It also ranged from the mayhem of nature - the black billowing clouds of a volcano - to hints of Orwellian oppression.
Read MoreRick Amor Print Prize 2011
'Intermission' - lithograph, edt 10, 38x29cm, 2011
Becc Orszag's lithograph Intermission has been selected as a finalist in 2011 Rick Amor Print Prize. The finalists exhibition is on show from 8 APRIL - 22 MAY at picture perfect Montsalvat.
Montsalvat
8 April - 22 May
7 Hillcrest Ave., Eltham VIC
www.montsalvat.com.au
BSG Works on Paper Prize 2009
'latent IV' - charcoal on paper 100x76cm, 2009
Becc Orszag's drawing latent IV has been selected as a finalist in this years Works on Paper Prize at Brunswick Street Gallery. The finalists exhibition opens tonight at 6pm.
Brunswick Street Gallery
322 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC
brunswickstreetgallery.squarespace.com
WINNER: Siemens - RMIT Fine Art Travelling Scholarship & Acquisition Awards 2009
Becc Orszag has been awarded a Siemens-Rmit Fine Art Travelling Scholarship for her large scale drawing Cannot Contain This. The drawing also took out the Siemens-RMIT Aquisition Prize.
Ms Orszag said the drawing was concerned with losing unique identity within a collected identity. "I’m searching for the moment at which the individual surrenders their unique identity for that of a collective, stemming from a concern of the troubling absence of individual thought within a contemporary society.”
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