17th June 2010 Are We There Yet Joint Exhibition with WHO River East Art Centre - Chicago, USA To be Opened by Mrs Elizabeth Schich, Australian Consul General For further information contact myself OR Judy Fitzgerald http://www.zylstra.com.au/represented_by1
Figurative Gallery
Gallery 1
>These selected artworks are inspired by current Social Issues and my immediate surroundings. Such issues as bullying, our fast disposable society, the worlds economic decline, homeless kids, post-natal depression, breast cancer etc. The materials and style of painting is intuitive and spontaneous to best get across my message and emotion.
Gallery 2
This series of paintings are focused around Identity.
Every day of our lives the masks go off and on, donned, discarded, exchanged, as we move from obligation to obligation and from friend to friend. Never mind that the masks are invisible, being the facial expressions, the stances, the vocabulary, attitudes, even the tone of voice appropriate to each position, each condition of life. We wear them all the same. As Shakespeare wrote:
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.
Gallery 3
These Artworks have been selected from a couple of different series that encapsulates my sarcastic darker humour , often with an underlying message or emotion hovering.
Gallery 4
These works encapulate a combined mixture of my figurative, minmalistic landscape and abstract using a monochromic Pallete with a hit of red to add to the drama that lyes behind the emotion of each piece.