LUSK, Doris;
Imagined Projects: I. Damsite
February 1983
Acrylic on canvas on board
685 x 900mm
Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery has observed:
‘Doris Lusk’s Imagined Projects & Imagined Views (1983–84) is one of the artist’s last major series. It is a culmination of six decades of Lusk’s practice and thinking around landscape in Aotearoa. … The paintings depict delicately coloured opaque washes of imagined industrial sites inserted into fictional earthy landscapes. The architectural sites in these paintings do not sit in harmony with nature but are juxtaposed with it. They illustrate the tensions at play when large extractive infrastructural interventions are made in the landscape.’
Photographs by Ted Whitaker, courtesy of Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara.
Inscriptions
"IMAGINED PROJECTS" ; I. DAMSITE – ACRYLIC ON CANVAS – D. LUSK. FEB. 1983. / "CHALLENGE COLLECTION" [stretcher]Exhibition History
Matthew Galloway, Doris Lusk, and Raúl Ortega Ayala, Infrastructure: power, politics and imagination, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, 20 April to 30 June 2024
Provenance
1984–
Challenge Collection (later Fletcher Trust Collection), purchased from Louise Beale Gallery, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, October 1984