June 07– July 01, 2006

John Heward | Painting | review

> opening Thursday, June 08 | 2 - 8pm

from Untitled (Gesture) ink on rayon

from Abstraction acrylic, oil, ink on rayon, canvas and wood

Decidedly minimal in its formal orientation, Heward’s work oscillates between basic drawn and painted forms (using various acrylic colours and/or ink) and freely applied, more complex gestural collocations or marks (usually applied in his signature black acrylic paint). Usually a wide margin of the fabric sheet is left bare, letting the single mark-or the medley of marks---breath
free. But whether the marks are well delineated or they form an inchoate mass, they gel as particularly charged objects that induce reflection.

James D. Campbell,
The Thought from Outside:
an Inquiry into he Art and Artefacts of John Heward

In this new body of work, John Heward has returned to his signature unstretched white rayon ground for a series of “V” gestures in black. The “V” series is accompanied by a series of tall, totemic banners in acrylics on unprimed canvas.