Amanda Gruenwald | Abstract Topologies
142 Great North Road, Grey Lynn, Auckland
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Trish Clark Gallery is delighted to present Abstract Topologies, Amanda Gruenwald’s first solo exhibition since 2018. In this body of new paintings, Abstract Topologies continues Gruenwald’s ongoing engagement with colour and form, influenced by our image-saturated digital landscape and physical topologies, and dialogue with painterly traditions that affirm the canvas as an object-to-be-painted.
Ranging in scale from modestly sized works to the artist’s full reach, Gruenwald’s paintings are produced through an active/meditative process enabled by the physicality of her practice and the paintings’ evolving interior dynamic. Combining the gestural nature of her mark-making and her physical engagement with her canvas’ meditative fields of colour, Gruenwald’s paintings are produced through a balance of improvisation and deliberation, energised by the great freedom of chance and experimentation in the early stages of each work. There is an oscillation between thickness and thinness, energy and calm, that ebbs and flows over Gruenwald’s surfaces, reflecting the dialogue between Gruenwald and the logic of each work that emerges as she paints.
Gruenwald graduated from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 2012, where she was awarded the Gordon Harris Painting Prize and the Kate Edgar Charitable Trust Grant in her final year of study. Quickly distinguishing herself as a thoughtful and formidable emerging artist, Gruenwald was given her first public gallery exposure in 2017 at the Govett-Brewster / Len Lye Centre in Surface Affect, with Jeena Shin and Michael Zavros. In 2021, Gruenwald was commissioned to produce an entire suite of nine new paintings for the Cordis Auckland Art Collection, enabling her to transition to a full-time painting practice.
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