Mark Braunias: Assemble, Disassemble, Reassemble Biomorphic

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Mark Braunias: Assemble, Disassemble, Reassemble Biomorphic Drawings (2010-2024) 10 July – 1 September The Arts House Trust Gallery
adj : resembling or suggesting the forms of living organisms. Biomorphism: art that focuses on the power of natural life and uses organic shapes, with shapeless and vaguely spherical hints of the forms of biology with connections to Surrealism and Art Nouveau. wiki
These large drawings on paper cover a period of 15 years and are presented as an immersive installation. Single shapes converge with multiples, and negative and positive spaces interlock and overlay throughout the exhibition. Installed throughout the Gallery, the drawings appear to be moving in a processional manner. Replicating the notion of living forms in the act of evolving, dissolving and regenerating. Like a train of thought on the tracks of biological intersections with the suggestion of a potential dystopian future.

Biography
Mark Braunias graduated with a BFA from Canterbury University, Ilam School of Fine Arts, Christchurch in 1988. He was the inaugural winner of the Arts House Trust Art Award in 1992 and received a Fulbright NZ Scholar-Visual Arts scholarship to complete an artist residency at Headlands Center For The Arts in San Francisco during 2011. Braunias was awarded artist residencies at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery (2002), William Hodges Fellowship, Invercargill (2005), Tylee Cottage, Whanganui (2007) and the Dunedin School of Art (2019). In 2021, he won the national Parkin Drawing Award.
His work is held in public gallery and private collections including Te Papa Museum, Christchurch Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Sarjeant Art Gallery, Tauranga Art Gallery, Invercargill Art Gallery and Museum, Ashburton Art Gallery, Auckland University, Canterbury University, Massey University, Lincoln University, Fletcher Trust Collection, Art House Trust Collection and the State Library of Queensland.

Mark Braunias is represented by: Anna Miles Gallery, Auckland, Jonathan Smart Gallery, Christchurch and Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin.
About the Morrinsville Gallery
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