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BLACKARTPROJECTS PRESENTS KELSEY BROOKES / CLEON PETERSON / MARK WHALEN / JONATHAN ZAWADA

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Kelsey Brookes / Cleon Peterson / Mark Whalen / Jonathan Zawada JCP Studios 51-57 Cubitt Street Cremorne, Victoria 13 - 27 November, 2014

CONDITIONER CONDITIONER is a tongue in cheek metaphor for the protection of inherited mores that form a social fabric.

The exhibiting artists address the complexities of social conditioning through the subjects of violence, spirituality, sexuality, deviant behaviour and altered or multiple states of reality (chemical, digital, physical). A great deal has been written about psychoanalysis in consideration of the history of art and art criticism. This exhibition is not an attempt to answer any one question, nor is it an attempt to recontextualise this history, rather to demonstrate each artist as a practitioner of documenting the human condition in contemporary society.

Kelsey Brookes Benzene No.1 (2014) acrylic on canvas 92 x 92 cm

Kelsey Brookes Benzene No.2 (2014) acrylic on canvas 92 x 92 cm

Cleon Peterson The Crawler (2014) acrylic on panel 69 x 51 cm

Cleon Peterson Bask in the Light (2014) acrylic on panel 51 x 38 cm

Cleon Peterson The Kiss (2014) acrylic on panel 38 x 28 cm

Mark Whalen In conversation (2014) acrylic, ink and gouache on board, resin coated 34.5 x 44.5 cm

Mark Whalen Paths of anomalies (2014) acrylic, ink and gouache on board, resin coated 2 panels, 42 x 160 cm

Jonathan Zawada Skin (Ballet) (2014) digitally printed charmeuse silk, aluminium rod, edition 5 122 x 90 cm

Jonathan Zawada Skin (Greyhounds) (2014) digitally printed charmeuse silk, aluminium rod, edition 5 122 x 90 cm

Jonathan Zawada Skin (Surgery) (2014) digitally printed charmeuse silk, aluminium rod, edition 5 122 x 90 cm

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