Digging beneath the surface
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Over the course of a decade, Nic Moon has established a reputation for the formal and classic beauty of her paintings, sculpture and photography, a much welcomed return to elegance within contemporary New Zealand art.
Her work Transformations will be on display at Whitespace in Auckland from February 9-29.The beauty of her work is not skin deep. Her technical finesse and appeal to the senses is a ruse meant to lead the viewer into a maze of troubling concerns.
This subversive strategy is however, both a reflection of the artist's conceptual processes and a necessary foil.
For Nic is driven by a need to get beneath the surface of things, to peel back the layers of an often rotten core."
Catalogue excerpt by Anna-Marie White; Suter Gallery
What: Transformations by Nic Moon
When: February 9-29
Where: Whitespace, 12 Crummer Rd. Ponsonby, Auckland
03/02/08