Karen Woodbury Gallery

Marisa Purcell'Loom'

This body of work began with a motivation to gain a glimpse into unfathomable vastness. The language of abstraction allows for a non-cognitive dialogue with the unified field, where the process of painting itself reveals previously unimagined possibilities. The result is a series of paintings that seem to arise from nothing, as though they are atoms springing into existence from the cosmic void.

Wednesday 10 February 2016 to Saturday 05 March 2016
Art exhibition in Australia.

Michael Doolan'World within World'

Through the de- and re-construction of Disney's well known fairy tale images, characters and core motifs, and their realisation in three dimensional form, World within World seeks to contribute to this long established "heritage of adjustment" by proposing new ways of both reading and decoding the fairy tale.

Michael Doolan

Wednesday 11 November 2015 to Saturday 12 December 2015
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

2 collections

Angela & Hossein Valamanesh

Hossein and Angela Valamanesh’s first solo exhibition in Melbourne at Karen Woodbury Gallery is a collaborative and individual presentation of recent work. This stunning exhibition will incorporate a wide use of media including: video, ceramics, drawing, sculpture, painting and work on paper.

Wednesday 13 August 2014 to Saturday 06 September 2014
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

4 collections

MICHAEL DOOLAN Cautionary Tales

Michael Doolan’s solo exhibition ‘Cautionary Tales’ will feature a selection of small-scale hand modeled ceramic sculptures that explore themes of childhood fantasy and fictional tales. Ten small still life groupings present narratives that highlight key elements in a range of cautionary tales.

Michael Doolan

Thursday 29 September 2011 to Saturday 22 October 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

2 collections

MARIE HAGERTY

We are very pleased to announce Marie Hagerty’s first solo exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne. The exhibition will consist of a suite of major paintings ranging in scale with a shift in palette from previous works. These new paintings are aesthetically stunning whilst technically complex, rovoking a prolonged engagement with the viewer.

Marie Hagerty

Wednesday 31 August 2011 to Saturday 24 September 2011
Opening: Thursday 01 September 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

20 collections

McLean Edwards No Immunity

McLean Edwards' exhibition No Immunity, will include a series of his signature figurative paintings and a suite of 16 portraits of friends. Talking about the work, Edwards prefers literary references to painterly ones. "My work's like reading a book with the chapters all jumbled up, but it's still a book" he says. The jumble is deliberate and unavoidable. Edwards' thinking is not straightforward.

Mc Lean Edwards

Wednesday 03 August 2011 to Saturday 27 August 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

13 collections

Michael Cusack

Michael Cusack’s emblematic minimalist approach and restrained tonal palette will be exemplified in a body of new paintings on display at Karen Woodbury Gallery from 6 July. Over the past fifteen years Cusack has developed a distinctive painterly style characteristic of textural smudgings, scrapings and markings, often layered with mixed media such as Hessian, linoleum, plaster and enamel.

Michael Cusack

Wednesday 06 July 2011 to Saturday 30 July 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

4 collections

Rhys Lee | Scarecrow

Rhys Lee’s second solo exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery is much anticipated. Lee has been included in a wide range of significant contemporary curatorial exhibitions and has been listed in Australian Art Collector’s 50 Most Collectable Artists on two occasions.

Rhys Lee

Wednesday 08 June 2011 to Saturday 02 July 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

7 collections

Monika Tichacek: To All My Relations

Tichacek’s second solo exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery directly relates to the two and a half years Tichacek spent in the jungles, mountains and deserts of South and North America, where she immersed herself in solitude in the natural environment. Here, Tichacek spent extended periods of time in the Amazon experiencing the lifestyles of Shamanic traditions of the native inhabitants.

Monika Tichacek

Wednesday 04 May 2011 to Saturday 28 May 2011
Opening: Saturday 07 May 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

5 collections

Albert Street Galleries Open Day

The 2011 Albert Street Galleries Open Day will be held on Saturday 14th May. Following the success of the event in 2010, five galleries in the precinct will once again open their doors to the public for a series of contemporary art conversations.

Saturday 14 May 2011 to Saturday 14 May 2011
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

2 collections

Heather B. Swann: Bone

In this exhibition, Heather B. Swann lays bare one of her central preoccupations: wildness and containment, and the nexus or relationship between the beast and the body. Animals appear often in the artist's work; creatures both wild and domesticated, cunning and dumb, with their physical features refined or intensified, abstracted or hybridised.

Heather B. Swann

Wednesday 30 March 2011 to Saturday 30 April 2011
Opening: Wednesday 30 March 2011
Art exhibition in Australia.

Basic Instinct

Basic Instinct is a group exhibition of contemporary Australian artists for whom drawing is an essential element of their practice. This exhibition aims to locate the intrinsic, subliminal and instinctive quality that drawing holds for the exhibiting artists.

Del Kathryn Barton Michael Cusack Locust Jones Rhys Lee Lisa Roet Philip Wolfhagen Aida Tomescu Lorraine Heller Nicholas Lionel Bawden Patrick Doherty Simon O'carrigan

Wednesday 02 March 2011 to Saturday 26 March 2011
Opening: Saturday 05 March 2011
Art exhibition in Australia.

McLean Edwards, Rhys Lee, Fiona Lowry, Heather B. Swann

McLean Ewards, Rhys Lee, Fiona Lowry, Heather B. Swann

Mc Lean Edwards Rhys Lee Fiona Lowry Heather B Swann

Wednesday 17 November 2010 to Saturday 11 December 2010
Opening: Saturday 20 November 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

4 collections

Aida Tomescu

We are very pleased to announce Aida Tomescu’s first solo exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne. Aida is one of Australia’s most prominent female abstract painters. She was the inaugural winner of the prestigious LSFA Arts 21 Fellowship (1996) and the winner of The Sulman Prize (1996), The Wynne Prize (2001), and the Dobell Prize for Drawing (2003) by the Art Gallery of New South Wal

Aida Tomescu

Wednesday 20 October 2010 to Saturday 13 November 2010
Opening: Wednesday 20 October 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

4 collections

Titania Henderson | The Other

Titania Henderson’s exhibition The Other presents a range of ceramic sculptural installations in pure white Bone China that convey a three-dimensional engagement. A fragility and vulnerability resonate through these poignant paper-thin configurations, bringing a sense of clarity and freedom. These hand built works challenge the conception of Bone China as a material only suited for slip casting.

Titania Henderson

Wednesday 20 October 2010 to Saturday 13 November 2010
Opening: Wednesday 20 October 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Philip Wolfhagen | A Painter's Landscape

As one of Australia's acclaimed landscape painters, Philip Wolfhagen continues to create deeply evocative, beautiful and soothing works. His much anticipated first solo exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery will be a strong representation of his current practice of superb traditional landscape painting.

Philip Wolfhagen

Wednesday 22 September 2010 to Saturday 16 October 2010
Opening: Wednesday 22 September 2010
Art exhibition in Australia.

ROMANCE WAS BORN / KATE ROHDE

The upcoming collaborative exhibition by the Sydney based fashion label Romance was born (Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales) and Karen Woodbury Gallery’s artist Kate Rohde is set to be an incredible installation of spectacle.

Kate Rohde

Wednesday 25 August 2010 to Saturday 18 September 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

6 collections

Magda Matwiejew - En Pointe

Magda Matwiejew exhibition En Pointe at Karen Woodbury Gallery is an exhibition comprising of a film projection and twelve digital prints. In a career based in a painting tradition, Matwiejew has successfully re-invented her practice in the past six years, now exclusively working with digital media.

Wednesday 28 July 2010 to Saturday 21 August 2010
Opening: Saturday 31 July 2010
Art exhibition in Australia.

Sam Jinks

Sam Jinks’ much anticipated second solo exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery will comprise of four works that examine the human condition and life cycle. His hyper-real sculptures have been described as ‘poignantly beautiful’ as his works create a dialogue on both a technical and emotional level through a strong sensitivity to detail.

Sam Jinks

Wednesday 30 June 2010 to Saturday 24 July 2010
Opening: Saturday 03 July 2010
Art exhibition in Australia.

Lara Merrettevery breath you take

Merrett’s canvases can be seen as spiritual meditations on our physical environments, but also emotional and psychological experiences that generate overwhelming feelings beyond the everyday.

Lara Merrett

Wednesday 02 June 2010 to Saturday 26 June 2010
Opening: Saturday 05 June 2010
Art exhibition in Australia.

2 collections

The Navigators

The Navigators is a group exhibition that features the work of: Lionel Bawden, Penny Byrne, Nicholas Folland, Locust Jones, Rhys Lee, Rob McHaffie, Derek O’Connor, Alex Spremberg and Madonna Staunton. The exhibition aims to investigate work that contextually blurs familiar objects with new forms and environments.

Locust Jones Rhys Lee Derek O'connor Alex Spremberg Madonna Staunton Lionel Bawden Penny Byrne Nicholas Folland Rob Mc Haffie

Wednesday 05 May 2010 to Saturday 29 May 2010
Opening: Saturday 08 May 2010
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

Annual Albert Street Galleries Open Day

At 3pm Karen Woodbury Gallery will host Doug Hall AM, to speak about his experience as the Commissioner of the Australia Venice Biennale, 2011

Saturday 08 May 2010 to Saturday 08 May 2010
Opening: Saturday 08 May 2010
Art exhibition in Australia.

6 collections

Robert BoynesPostscript

Postscript is Robert Boynes’ third solo exhibition with Karen Woodbury Gallery. Continuing his exploration of urban themes, contemporary experience and experimentation into ways of using paint, his paintings for this exhibition convey a form of abstract realism.

Robert Boynes

Wednesday 07 April 2010 to Saturday 01 May 2010
Art exhibition in Australia.

3 collections

Simon Obarzanek

Simon Obarzanek’s upcoming solo exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery Untitled Movement no.2, is a continuation of his series Untitled Movement no.1. This new body of work expands on ideas of forces that face people throughout their lives, in this case literally, through the documentation of metaphorical physical interventions.

Simon Obarzanek

Wednesday 03 March 2010 to Saturday 27 March 2010
Art exhibition in Australia.

Locust Jones

Locust Jones will be holding his first much anticipated solo exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery. This exhibition will comprise two to three major works on paper in addition to a selection of smaller works. Locust creates small to very large-scale works on paper, including drawing and prints (mainly lino and woodcuts) with impulsive and violent scrawling and scribbling.

Locust Jones

Wednesday 03 February 2010 to Saturday 27 February 2010
Art exhibition in Australia.

Kate Rohde

Kate Rohde’s upcoming solo exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery is her first commercial exhibition in Melbourne. The work for the exhibition is largely inspired by a three month residency in 2008 as a creator-in residence at Tokyo Wonder Site in Japan. Decorative wood carvings of zen and shinto shrines in Kamakura and Nikko were particularly influential.

Kate Rohde

Thursday 26 November 2009 to Saturday 19 December 2009
Art exhibition in Australia.

John Pule

Different Oceans is prominent New Zealand artist, John Pule’s second solo exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery, Melbourne. Comprising of drawings and paintings, these organic works intertwine personal narrative while engaging with broader issues of migration, colonialism, identity and Christianity.

John Pule

Wednesday 28 October 2009 to Saturday 21 November 2009
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

3 collections

eX de Medici sweet complicity

sweet complicity is eX de Medici’s first and much anticipated exhibition at Karen Woodbury Gallery. The exhibition will comprise of three monumental pen, ink and mica works on archival paper. These works examine recurring themes in her practice such as power, war, death and violence via a decorative feminine veneer and aesthetic.

E X De Medici

Wednesday 30 September 2009 to Saturday 24 October 2009
Art exhibition in Australia.

4 collections

Jane BurtonIvy

Ivy comprises a series of photographs captured in black and white. The final prints are rendered with a sepia, peach-champagne tone, with many displaying a mottled hand-coloured effect in faded pastels of pink and green. These works hope to suggest an era past, perhaps Victorian. The imagery is evocative of old picture postcards from Europe and old photographs from the pages of family albums.

Jane Burton

Wednesday 02 September 2009 to Saturday 26 September 2009
Opening: Wednesday 02 September 2009
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.

New Gallery Artists-

Featuring the work of four artists new to the Karen Woodbury Gallery stable, New Gallery Artists will be a showcase of works by Michael Cusack, Marie Hagerty, Titania Henderson and Philip Wolfhagen.

Michael Cusack Marie Hagerty Titania Henderson Philip Wolfhagen

Wednesday 05 August 2009 to Saturday 29 August 2009
Art exhibition in Victoria, Australia.