Melanie Lazarow
Falling in Love Again
No Planet B
17 August - 4 September 2022
G3
Opening Night
Friday 19 August | 6pm – 8pm
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The juxtaposition of shape, colour and line dominates Melanie Lazarow’s artistic process. In this time of crisis and environmental destruction, her art comes from the conviction that our only hope of saving our planet is if we begin to have radical feelings of love and change. Her painting is mainly a slow enchantment with the amazing improbability of life and a desire to help save this planet, because there is no Planet B. Melanie reflects on this proposal in the unique intersections created on rough-textured plywood and three-dimensional objects.
Soviet artists, such as Kasimir Malevich (Black Square 1915) and El Lissitsky (Red Wedge 1919), simplified art into basic elements and developed an approach using pure geometric forms and their relationship to one another set against minimal grounds. This revolutionary way of thinking started a movement where art was separated from the individual creator. Melanie often refers to these constructivists, incorporating shape, colour, line, space, balance and light into her works. Melanie’s less abstract work catches moments, like walking alone at night defying fear. She hopes viewers will be exhilarated by the challenges we face and what might/must yet become possible.
Briefly, we all need to fall in love again.
Artist Bio
Melanie Lazarow is a South African-born Australian artist. She moved to Australia in 1978, living and working in Canberra and Sydney before settling in Melbourne (Naarm) in 1990.
She is immersed in the question of change: how art changes, how the world changes for better or worse, how it is a dialectic of movement, caused by events in the real world around us.
In 2014, she completed a Masters degree in Contemporary Art at the Victorian College of the Arts. She has worked in many forms of art and photography, and has exhibited constantly since then, including five times at Red Gallery between 2015 and 2022.
Melanie lives in nearby Brunswick with her husband Peter and their cat, Alfie.
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets
Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
