INTERVIEW: Art Smitten on Syn Radio

'The Appointed' - graphite, carbon pencil and gold leaf on paper, 2015.

Becc Ország and Peta Clancy talk about their works in Linden Arts' exhibition Paper and putting in the long hours to reach a "finished" product on SYN Radio's Art Smitten. The exhibition runs until 12 July 2015 at Linden New Art lindenarts.org .

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Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2015

'Rehearsal for all are equal and all may be crowned emperor' - graphite and carbon pencil on layered paper.

'Rehearsal for all are equal and all may be crowned emperor' - graphite and carbon pencil on layered paper.

Becc Orszag's drawing 'Rehearsal for all are equal and all may be crowned emperor' is a finalist in the 2015 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award.  This years award attracted over 1500 entries by more than 750 artists. With prizes totalling $26 000 the biennial Hazelhurst Art Award showcases outstanding art created with, on or about paper. Artists compete for the $15 000 major award, the $5000 Emerging Artist Award, the $5000 Friend's of Hazelhurst Local Artist Award, and the $1000 People's Choice Award. The exhibition will present a diverse range of paper media and industry techniques, including drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, paper cuts and video. Exhibition of finalists work runs from 30 May - 26 July 2015 Hazelhurst Regional Gallery.

Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
30 May- 26 July
782 Kingsway, Gymea, NSW
www.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au

EXHIBITION: Linden Projects Paper

The False Victor - graphite pencil and 24 kt gold leaf on paper, 2015

LINDEN PROJECTS: PAPER | LINDEN NEW ART | MELBOURNE
8 MAY- 12 JULY 2015

OPENING THURSDAY 7 MAY 6-8PM

Linden will present four solo exhibitions in the Linden Projects: Paper exhibition including work by Gunjan Aylawadi, Peta Clancy and Emma van Leest. This exhibition explores how one of the oldest of art medias is used by contemporary artists today and explores how this media can be extended.

Becc Orszag will present a new body of drawings for the exhibition. Orszag's drawings are a strange mix of landscape, portraits and performance presented in a dream like trance. She writes, "My drawings are inspired by found imagery and the written word, from accidental photographs and historical photojournalism to instruction manuals and religious texts. I explore the insatiable human desire for a promised land, a utopia beyond the physical limits of Earth".

Linden New Art
8 May - 12 July
26 Acland St, St Kilda VIC
lindenarts.org

Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award 2014

Installation View 'Lay of the Land' - charcoal, pastel, chalk, carbon on paper 64 x 81cm, 2013

Becc Orszag's charcoal drawing 'Lay of the Land' is a finalist in this years JADA Drawing Prize. An exhibition of finalists work opens tonight at Grafton Regional Gallery and will be touring the country until mid 2016.

Jada - Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award Touring Exhibition
Manning Regional Art Gallery / 14 December 2014 - 1 February 2015
Cowra Regional Art Gallery / 21 March - 26 April 2014
University of the Sunshine Coast / 7 May – 27 June 2015
GlassHouse Port Macquarie / 10 July – 13 September 2015
Redcliffe City Art Gallery / 29 October – 8 December 2015
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery / 19 March – 1 May 2016
Tamworth Regional Gallery / 11 June – 6 August 2016

EXHIBITION: 'The Land, The Way and The Wall' at Dianne Tanzer Gallery

The Sacrifice - graphite pencil and carbon pencil on layered paper, 2014

THE LAND, THE WAY AND THE WALL | DIANNE TANZER GALLERY | MELBOURNE
27 AUGUST - 13 SEPTEMBER 2014
 

The flotsam and jetsam of life wash up on the shores of Orszag's gentle surrealism, where people and their instruments become infected by spurious mind-crofts and cataclysmic serenity - Simon Gregg


dianne tanzer gallery + projects
27 August - 13 September
108 - 110 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, VIC
dtanzer@ozemail.com.au
www.diannetanzergallery.net.au
 

EXHIBITION: 'Improbable Journey' at Gippsland Art Gallery

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IMPROBABLE JOURNEY | GIPPSLAND ART GALLERY | SALE
17 MAY - 6 JULY 2014

OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 30 MAY 6PM

Becc Orszag is a seer guiding viewers through uncharted lands in IMPROBABLE JOURNEY. Her work calls upon the spirits of distant lands and times, whose worlds overlap and co-exist within our own. Orszag proposes unlikely interactions and encounters through sequences of small-scale pencil drawings. Alternating between impossible landscapes and domestic exchanges, the works are inhabited by a range of characters whose curious activities deliver surprising outcomes.

Gippsland Art Gallery
17 May - 6 July
68-70 Foster St, Sale, VIC

Artbank Acquisition

Becc Orszag's two drawings The Makers and View from the Observation Room have been aquired by Artbank. Check some of the amazing things they are doing for Australian Contemporary Art at artbank.gov.au

'The Makers' - graphite and carbon pencil on layered watercolour paper, 41x55cm, 2012

'View from the Observation Room' - graphite and carbon pencil on layered watercolour paper, 41x55cm, 2012

EXHIBITION: 'Promised Land' at dianne tanzer gallery

'The Test Pool' - graphite and carbon pencil on layered paper, 41x55cm, 2012

THE PROMISED LAND | DIANNE TANZER GALLERY | MELBOURNE
20 OCT - 17 NOVEMBER 2012


Becc Orszag's debut solo show with diannetanzer gallery + projects opens today at 3pm.

An exhibition of new drawings by Melbourne artist Becc Orszag. Orszag's work questions the voyeur’s moral ambivalence and role as a witness to their own experience. It’s the potential for upheaval or worse, nothingness that we constantly seem to be on the edge of. Unseen and unspoken, unaware of just how close to that line we are. Through highly detailed small scale drawings Orszag explores unresolved narratives forcing individual observation and interpretation. Figures are removed from their original contexts into dissected, re-imagined, illusionary realms. Gestures are exaggerated, mimicry is amplified and gazes are obscured. The protagonists become anonymous and redundant stripped of power and will. The viewer unable to meet their eye becomes a witness acutely aware of their voyeuristic behaviour. 

dianne tanzer gallery + projects
20 October - 17 November
108 - 110 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, VIC
dtanzer@ozemail.com.au
www.diannetanzergallery.net.au