Nadine Christensen: Mixed Feelings
Past exhibition
Overview
Nadine Christensen’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, Mixed Feelings, comprises a selection of more than thirty domestically-scaled paintings made over the past five years, together with a new large-scale sculpture, and might be considered a compact and layered index to the artist’s broader art practice.
For these recent works Christensen has drawn from her collection of polysemous phrases and words, amplifying their capacity for multiple meanings and inflections through their figurative context and specific materiality. Throughout the exhibition, erasure is featured as both a rendered motif and patch – a mark that denotes decision making, echoes a change of course, is a trace of misdirection and signals a fix.
In Mixed Feelings paint is variously applied to surfaces with the edge of a cardboard off cut, impressing the corrugated lines of the material's internal structure onto painted surfaces. This structural buffer or scaffold is mirrored in Christensen’s sculpture and accumulates as both a porous pattern and fragile support structure.
The works in Mixed Feelings combine to create an encounter with un-still-life; where fluidity and tension around the experiences of home, work, community and friendship are embraced.
For these recent works Christensen has drawn from her collection of polysemous phrases and words, amplifying their capacity for multiple meanings and inflections through their figurative context and specific materiality. Throughout the exhibition, erasure is featured as both a rendered motif and patch – a mark that denotes decision making, echoes a change of course, is a trace of misdirection and signals a fix.
In Mixed Feelings paint is variously applied to surfaces with the edge of a cardboard off cut, impressing the corrugated lines of the material's internal structure onto painted surfaces. This structural buffer or scaffold is mirrored in Christensen’s sculpture and accumulates as both a porous pattern and fragile support structure.
The works in Mixed Feelings combine to create an encounter with un-still-life; where fluidity and tension around the experiences of home, work, community and friendship are embraced.
Works
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Nadine Christensen, Patch it up, 2017
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Nadine Christensen, On a fence, 2021
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Nadine Christensen, Running (cord hanging, painting on reverse), 2018
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Nadine Christensen, Comfort food, 2022
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Nadine Christensen, Best Painting, 2022
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Nadine Christensen, House Work, 2017
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Nadine Christensen, Cut out, 2018
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Nadine Christensen, Cord arrangement, 2016-17
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Nadine Christensen, Collage, 2017-18
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Nadine Christensen, Fence patches, 2018
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Nadine Christensen, Nothing matters when we’re dancing, 2020-22
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Nadine Christensen, Paintings on a bed, 2019
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Nadine Christensen, Glasses, 2018
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Nadine Christensen, Keeping your head above water, 2022
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Nadine Christensen, Patches, 2020-22
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Nadine Christensen, Running Blind, 2022
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Nadine Christensen, Hang in there, 2017
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Nadine Christensen, Putting Things Away, 2017
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Nadine Christensen, Sample (red and white chevron), 2018
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Nadine Christensen, Too much, 2020-21
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Nadine Christensen, Untitled, 2020
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Nadine Christensen, Untitled, 2019
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Nadine Christensen, Vimples, 2020
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Nadine Christensen, Untitled (arched doorway], 2019
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Nadine Christensen, Two doorbells, 2019-20
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Nadine Christensen, Untitled (sky), 2017
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Nadine Christensen, Untitled (door), 2019
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Nadine Christensen, Untitled (purple background), 2017
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Nadine Christensen, Untitled (Volunteers), 2017
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Nadine Christensen, usususus, 2020
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Nadine Christensen, Nah Can’t, 2018
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Nadine Christensen, Light pink cut out, oblique angle, 2017
Installation Views