Carla Priivald - Painting 2005
 

Images from 2005 were represented in a solo exhibition held at Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.

These images were represented in, Wall, an exhibition based on street art found in Ljubljana, Berlin, Prague and Tallinn. The paintings are sourced from photographs and worked in layers of glazes, stencils, airbrush collage and text. The plethora of art materials used to make the work produced an exhibition that contained fragmented chaotic arrangements, where any reference to the original graffiti is lost in the process of painting and layering.

Some of the works show figures sourced from stencils and placed in an environment where symbols and text compete in pictorial space. The figure can appear seductive or menacing, the character determined by the text messages, colours and other forms found in the new compositions. The works are subtle and ambiguous yet charged in socio-political contexts that represent graffiti art through the centuries. 

Influenced by some prominent artists whose work can be traced as graffiti like, that is, Cy Twombly, Antoni Tapias and Jean-Michael Basquiat, Wall represents a new configuration to painted urban walls while researching a short history of graffiti art as one of the first communicative acts of drawing.

   

Detail, 'Berlin', 2005, oil, graphite, pencil on canvas, 85 x 175cm - SOLD
 
Study-Berlin I', 2005, oil on canvas, 50 x 50cm

'Crime Ink', 2005,  oil, mixed media on canvas, 90 x 120cm
   
'Study-Berlin', 2005, oil on paper, 50 x 50cm
2 works from the variable edition of 12 hand-printed intaglio prints, 'Study-Wall', 2005, intaglio print, oil on paper, 45 x 45cm - SOLD
'Berlin/Ljubljana', 2005,  oil, mixed media on canvas, 90 x 120cm