13 June - 20 July 2003
This exhibition focuses on the work of two artists, who, in differing ways, use the conceits of high modernism and ideological design as the bedrock of their subject matter. Justin Hibbs makes paintings of outmoded, modernist, social architecture in blocks of paired-down, muted tonalities applied predominantly using a roller. In crudely hewn structures, Mark Pearson extends the logic of Bauhaus idealism into a collision with the trite excesses of proscribed kitschness. The tenets of the two sculptures overspill into a saturated, corrupt methodology and subverted premise of taste and aesthetic and ideological values.
