FUTURES is pleased to present Excess/Support: Liquidity and Mediation, a solo exhibition by Melbourne-born and Brussels-based Sean Crossley, his first with the gallery, accompanied by the Australian launch of his publication Excess/Support for which these paintings were made.
This extensive series, which has been produced over four years, conceives painting as a laboratory – a tool that assesses, inverts, and redescribes things met in the world. This process draws quotidian or conventional subjects such as faces, objects, flowers and typography into a painterly feedback loop where they are gradually weaved into or fused with other matters or systems. Reciprocity is inherent, from how realism and abstraction compose each other, and what it means to look outward and make a painting as an act of assessment or reflection.
Excess/Support provided Sean with a space for improvised experimentation that was used to nourish and disrupt exhibitions being produced simultaneously. In equal turn, these distinct exhibition projects were absorbed into Excess/Support, forming sub-categories throughout the paintings and constantly re-sequencing the body of work. Thirty-six of the one hundred paintings in the series will be exhibited at FUTURES, divided into two subcategories of ‘Liquidity’ and ‘Mediation’.
Sean appears courtesy of Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels
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