October 14 – November 10, 2016
Opening reception: October 14, 7-9
Steve Turner is pleased to present House of Cards, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Melbourne-based Nyah Isabel Cornish. Drawing inspiration from a broad range of sources, Cornish aims for compositions and colors that are reminiscent of Dutch still lives; she seeks to fashion painterly textures similar to those created by various Abstract Expressionist painters, and she seeks to create compositions that reflect and counter her quick swipe exposure to images online. Cornish uses processes of chance and control, accident and intention, observation and correction to improve her works to the final degree. She continues to push a painting to its breaking point, knowing that if she goes too far that she risks undermining the harmony she desires. In that way, it is like a house of cards. According to Cornish, “Eventually I reach a very fine point between balance and chaos. It is a moment when the house of cards could topple. This is when I know the work is complete.”
Born in 1990, Nyah Isabel Cornish earned a BFA at RMIT University, Melbourne (2015) and has subsequently had a solo exhibition at Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin (2016). Her work was also included in Face to Face – A selection of contemporary international artists from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, Salerno (2016). House of Cards is Cornish’s debut exhibition in the United States.
Born 1990
Lives and works in Melbourne
Education
2015
BFA, Honours, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2014
BFA, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Solo Exhibitions
2016
House of Cards,Steve Turner, Los Angeles (upcoming)
Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Berlin
Group Exhibitions
2016
Spring 1883, Fort Delta, Melbourne
The Hawt Show, Outdoor Project and Summer Residency, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome
In the Depth of the Surface, Ex Fabbrica Orobia 15, Milan
Face to Face, works from the Ernesto Esposito collection, Salerno
Here’s to Future Days, Fort Delta, Melbourne
Then and Now, NKN Gallery, Melbourne
2015
Artissima International Art Fair, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Turin
Spring 1883 with NKN Gallery, Sydney
Future Process, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
The Smell of an Oily Rag, Fort Delta, Melbourne
The Personal Thing, NKN Gallery, Melbourne
Group Show, NKN Gallery, Melbourne
2014
Bachelor of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, RMIT, Melbourne
Leap Year, Paradise Hills, Melbourne
NotFair, Melbourne
Crème: The Affects of Materiality, RMIT, Melbourne
The Art Fair Murders (in collaboration with Peter Hill), Kings ARI/RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
2013
Constraint, RMIT, Melbourne
Goodbye Bruce, Bruce ARI, Melbourne
