Palmer Art Projects is pleased to present ‘Lost & Found’ a two man solo exhibition by New York based artists Jonathan Rosen & Tom Smith at PALMER between 5 - 27 February 2016.

Tom Smith’s surreal abstractions are vibrating interplays of two paintings spliced and interlaid together, distorting the viewers reading of the inner and outer world of the image and questioning our conditioning towards recognition of the conscious and the subconscious.

He is an artist firmly rooted in a new generation of IRL painters bringing digital imagery and topographies to their painted or sculptural analog works. Like a Kraftwerkian man-machine, he replicates the shapes and textures of Adobe Illustrator, or the glitches found in video interlacing with acrylic, spray paint, and collage materials.

Jonathan Rosen’s work explores the personal complexity of love, dreaming and desire in his next series of large collages. The meticulously crafted pieces made from found objects and collections embody ‘labor of love’ and/or love as labor. Rosen carves the words ‘I Want…’ along with his innermost desires out of the canvas. What is left (lost) is a window in the canvas exposing his often universal conditions and ideas of love and want.

Through this show, Rosen brings his personal wants and dreams quite literally to the surface for an intimate engagement with themes of hope, ambition, and loneliness. Rosen’s five large canvasses each address various ‘wants’ of the artist: from wanting to escape, to wanting to be a expressed, wanting to be loved. Each ‘dream’ the artist expresses in these works are deeply personal while at the same time universally resonant.

‘Lost & Found’ follows on from their first Australian solo exhibition ‘The Knot’ in 2015, described by Nicholas Forrest, Blouin Artinfo, as an exhibition wherein “both artists explore the flexibility of the picture surface while at the same time challenge prevailing perceptions of its status and function” as well as Jonathan Rosen’s highly acclaimed solo exhibition in December 2015 at Colette in Paris.

Opening Hours

Wed - Saturday 11 - 5pm