David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by the Australian-born, London-based artist David Noonan. This is his second exhibition with the gallery.
Noonan utilizes a personal archive of found images to create hand-screened, collaged works on linen that straddle the lines between photography and history, ritual and performance, and memory and fiction.
Depicting costumed figures set against richly patterned backgrounds, these works borrow techniques not only from painting, but also from film, theatre, literature and sculpture. By relying upon intuition, chance, and free association, Noonan composes these large-scale narrative tableaux so that their subjects seem to be caught between moments of introspection and exhibitionism, their implied theatricality alluding to both the artifice and creative potential of performance.
