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...deaths of a lot of people in a single stroke, as opposed to those that kill in a chronic, distributed way. "Terrorism lends itself to excessive reactions because it's vivid and there's an available incident," says Sunstein. "Compare that to climate change, which is gradual and abstract...
Gaur said that he received 120 abstract submissions...
...they seem" - could be a useful guide for visitors to the retrospective, which opens this week. Seeing Arkley isn't as easy as his work makes it look. His distinctive "after-spray" outlines over fields of kinetic patterning and color constantly tempt the eye to shift focus; figurative becomes abstract and vice versa; painting and sculpture merge...
...kitchen canvas to Korea in a 1998 show and worked with him on an installation shortly before his death, Smith knows him inside out. Hanging the exhibition in loose chronological order, he places the 1992 painted interior, Spartan Space, inspired by Modernist De Stijl furniture design, amidst early white abstract works, making plain Arkley's influences. In the following room, he artfully arranges a 1983 suite of street-culture canvases, Tattooed: Head, Hands, Penis, Feet, in the form of a Surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse, making the connection to Arkley's student days at Prahran College...
...formative punk years in the '70s and '80s, assuming everyone has read Ashley Crawford and Ray Edgar's Spray: The Work of Howard Arkley (1997). As they documented, it was his 1981 mural Primitive, named after a song by The Cramps, that saw Arkley paint his way from an abstract to a figurative style. Perhaps it was his life-long love of doodling that drew him to the airbrush, but this isn't something the new book makes clear. Instead, Gregory (and Smith in the show) bring new insights to Arkley's work by exploring the carnival theme. From...