New Year New Works
Judy Millar
Untitled
2011
oil and acrylic on aluminium
760 x 510 mm
Since her exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2009 Judy Millar’s works have evolved rapidly, particularly with her recent incorporation of printing processes in her paintings. The incorporation of mechanically-generated marks at once challenges our expectations of the expressive gesture and extends her enquiry into the efficacy of painting as a contemporary means of communication. All her works however, begin as directly painted images and through the various intermediary processes become exaggerations of smaller works. This work on aluminium has then the ambiguous status of either "the original" or the "oil sketch" as used by painters from previous times.
