Mark Soltero – Cinérmatic Forms of Light and Shadow, Sharon Johnson and Patrick Barry
Mark Soltero Sharon Johnson Patrick Barry
Showing 3rd March 2021 - 20th February 2021
Exhibition Information
Mark Soltero – Cinérmatic Forms of Light and Shadow, Sharon Johnson and Patrick Barry - Mark Soltero Sharon Johnson Patrick Barry
Mark Soltero
Cinématic Forms of Light and Shadow
In essence my paintings are history paintings that examine relationships between image, memory and materiality. Many of the images border on dissolution, fragmenting or breaking down in contrast to the seemingly smooth images that saturate our lived experience. Rather than making works in which the image might be shocking, I want to make works that draw audiences in, yet are challenging to look at. To a certain extent, the work explores our experience of différance, in time.
Recently I’ve been using a combination of reflective metallic paints and dense light-absorbing black. The shapes are the result of mining the interiors of particular cinema spaces, slicing through the layers of the light and shadow in the image like an onion, revealing fragmentary patterns. The patterns are abstract but they were absolutely real at a particular point in time. I’m researching ideas related to mirrors – the refraction of light firstly in the photograph, then echoed through its projection over the internet and again when processed in a computer, the reflective paint, the doubling of the image to create the Rorschach effect and finally the fact that when we view abstract images we project our own thoughts onto them, and interpret what we’re seeing.
The work presents a pictorial space that provides a stimulus for audiences to imagine and make associations with their own visual memories and experiences. Jacques Derrida’s concept of différance, where meaning is differed/deferred, can be considered in terms of the act of thinking which necessarily involves association, memory, prediction, assumption, anticipation…we literally move between associations. It’s that space of our interior world I’m exploring.
Sharon Johnson
Patrick Barry
These works relate to displaced energy that manifest within waves, conduits of liquid form or personal mountains, oceans voyages undertaken that we need to overcome to return to our former selves having been altered by the climb or turning back.
The patina incorporates a care worn life as it acquires many layers again and again forming its own unique beauty and voice.
A skin of experience, forming a tapestry of bright and muted colors.
As with life as we travel through it’s currents some run deep as with friendships and love some just on the surface.
Patrick Barry works as a professional sculptor since completing his fine arts degree in 2001 majoring in sculpture/Carving.
He has completed many public commissions in Europe and here in New Zealand the sign of the kiwi being the most recognizable and accessible in Christchurch. He has completed numerous others around New Zealand privately and publicly and continues to work from his studio in Woolston Christchurch.
Full Exhibition Works
Mark Soltero – Cinérmatic Forms of Light and Shadow, Sharon Johnson and Patrick Barry - Mark Soltero Sharon Johnson Patrick Barry
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Mark Soltero
MS Mirror
$3,400
Mark Soltero
MS Mirror
$3,400
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- Medium:
- Acrylic on Panel
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- Year:
- 2021
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- Size of Work:
- 1000mm dia x 35mm
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Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-1
$1,400
Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-1
$1,400
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- Medium:
- Acrylic on Panel
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- Year:
- 2021
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- Size of Work:
- 316 x 362 mm
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Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-2
$1,400
Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-2
$1,400
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- Medium:
- Acrylic on Panel
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- Year:
- 2021
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- Size of Work:
- 310 x 360mm
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Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-3
$1,800
Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-3
$1,800
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- Medium:
- Acrylic on Panel
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- Year:
- 2021
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- Size of Work:
- 385 x 440mm
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Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-4
$2,000
Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-4
$2,000
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- Medium:
- Acrylic on Panel
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- Year:
- 2021
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- Size of Work:
- 480 x 362mm
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Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-5
$2,000
Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-5
$2,000
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- Medium:
- Acrylic on Panel
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- Year:
- 2021
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- Size of Work:
- 480 x 362mm
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Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-9
$2,400
Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-9
$2,400
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- Medium:
- Acrylic on Panel
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- Year:
- 2021
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- Size of Work:
- 483 x 661mm
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Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-10
$2,800
Mark Soltero
MS Forms of Light & Shadow-10
$2,800
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- Medium:
- Acrylic on Panel
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- Year:
- 2021
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- Size of Work:
- 695 x 695mm
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Patrick Barry
PB Journey Home limited edition 4x Sold
$650
Patrick Barry
PB Journey Home limited edition 4x Sold
$650
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- Medium:
- Cast Stone with bronze patina
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- Year:
- 2021
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- Size of Work:
- 240x370mm approx
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Patrick Barry
PB Pacific Break
$650
Patrick Barry
PB Pacific Break
$650
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- Medium:
- Cast Stone with bronze patina
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- Year:
- 2021
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- Size of Work:
- 220x390mm
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Patrick Barry
PB The Return 3x sold in the edition
$850
Patrick Barry
PB The Return 3x sold in the edition
$850
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- Medium:
- Cast Stone with bronze patina
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- Year:
- 2021
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- Size of Work:
- 390x230mm approx
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