LUKE CHISWELL

COMES IN WAVES
7 APRIL - 30 APRIL 2022

Jerico Contemporary is pleased to present our fifth solo exhibition with Australian artist Luke Chiswell, COMES IN WAVES. Language serves as a foundation to Chiswell’s multidisciplinary practice. For his latest series the artist has created a selection of large action paintings, screen prints, photographs and a signifiant aluminium sculpture. 'COMES IN WAVES' can be seen as a nod to the creative process, resulting in works that reflect and enunciate the journey to completion rather than their destination.

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS:

‘NO GOOD, NO GOOD, GOOD’
4TH FEBRUARY – 27TH OF FEBRUARY 2021

Studying trial and error while documenting overlooked moments of development Chiswell expands on gestural mark making with focus placed on his signature script. Recurring letters and titles are revealed in a new series of vibrant screen prints, though these expressions aren’t always legible. In doing so, he establishes his own vocabulary through asemic writing, reflecting the repetitive nature of language and thereby enhancing the possibilities of interpretation. In his latest series “working titles” Chiswell takes hardware store colour swatches he has used as a tool for planning and developing titles throughout his practice. The re-valuing of their nature from a tool to a significant element of his work gives commentary on society’s sense of value and worth.

‘UNDAWAY FO’
29TH OF SEPTEMBER – 17TH OF OCTOBER 2020

Extending on the artist’s previous bodies of work, UNDAWAY FO brings together a new series of paintings, screen prints and small scale sculptural works in keeping with his signature style. Chiswell is best known for his fast-paced, process-based abstract works, that employ both improvisational and intentional marks to create loose all-over compositions. While there’s familiar elements to the look and feel of UNDAWAY FO, the exhibition marks the artist’s foray into new colourways and focus on screen printing by using the medium to create his largest work to date.

’THOUGHT IT WAS BUT IT WASN’T’
13TH OF FEBRUARY – 29TH OF FEBRUARY 2020

Influenced by dyslexia, synaesthesia, skateboarding and nature, language serves as a foundation to the artist’s work. A gestural vocabulary in which words and marks are infused with energy, meaning and mis-meaning. Chiswell’s large action paintings focusing on language are developed through a performative practice between intended composition and deliberate chance. Text moves from legible to abstract evoking an intuitive response to mark making. The use of scale and crop are crucial and phrases of interest never fully disclosed, while screen prints use continuous patterns reflecting the repetitive nature of language. Collected objects from around Topanga and Downtown LA serve as a base for collage captured relics through aluminium sand casting.

‘WISH IT WOULD LAST’
18TH OF JANUARY – 9TH OF FEBRUARY 2019

For his exhibition Wish It Would Last, Chiswell's series of paintings applying his characteristic action painting style to push the concept further, experimenting with language, text and meaning. Forming words onto canvas of found materials, creating line-based compositions allowing narrative and language to emit from abstract notations. In addition to his paintings, Chiswell has produced a single sculptural piece for the exhibition. An aluminium skateboard that derives from the artist's 'Trophy Series' that references destruction and resurrection.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:

Language serves as a foundation to Luke Chiswell’s multidisciplinary practice. A gestural vocabulary in which words and marks are infused with energy, meaning and mis-meaning. Chiswell’s large action paintings, screen-prints and sculptures focus on language and are developed through a performative practice between intended composition and deliberate chance. Text moves from legible to abstract evoking an intuitive response to mark making. The use of scale and crop are crucial and phrases of interest never fully disclosed.

Luke Chiswell was born in Collector, New South Wales, Australia. His solo exhibitions include 'no good, no good, good', Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2021), 'Thought It Was But It Wasn’t', Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2020), 'UNDAWAY FO', Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2020) 'Wish It Would Last', Jerico Contemporary, Sydney (2019), 'Digging in the Dark', Tributary Gallery, Canberra (2017), 'Borrow Tomorrow', Nishi Gallery, Canberra (2017), 'So Far So Good', Thompson House, Los Angeles (2016), 'To Young To Win Too Old Too Lose', TT Gallery, Sydney (2015), 'Touch Line', Chasm Gallery, New York (2015), 'As It Goes', Nishi Gallery, Canberra (2015), 'Have a Lovely Day', Friend Gallery, Canberra (2014), 'New Work New York', Union Avenue, Brooklyn (2014), 'Straight Face', Nishi Gallery, Canberra (2014), and 'Face Facing', Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra (2013). His group exhibitions include ‘Fire Fight’, Nishi Gallery Canberra (2020). Recent residencies include Unit 1 Gallery in London (2019) and Tappan Collective in Los Angeles (2019). The artist currently lives and works between Los Angeles and Australia.

“To me these works serve as a reminder to keep my eyes open along the way”

— LUKE CHISWELL, ‘NO GOOD, NO GOOD, GOOD’