Maznah Gallery
A fine art PHD candidate with University of Tasmania, this exhibition celebrates Maznah’s personal fascination with Asian ancient and contemporary psychoanalysis and somatic derivative structure and interpretations in works of art.
Trained by award winning English artist Steve Whitehead and Paul Clifford, artist and Coordinator of Fine Art, University of HULL-UK, Maznah holds both an MA (Painting-RMIT, Australia) and BA (Painting, high 2nd Upper Hons-University of HULL, UK).
She was a recipient of Fine Art Student Award (UK) with excellent reviews for her research paper and artwork presentation at MA. Maznah has participated actively in solo and group exhibitions in United Kingdom and Singapore. Her paintings are acquired by corporate as well as private buyers in both countries. Recently she has been offered representation by Agora Gallery to exhibit in New York.
Janus-faced is a symbolism which deals with conceptual engagement of translating opposing forces. The forces shaped this body of work as I deliberate on with comparative psychological and sociological dilemma, contemplating on self-conflicting issues while attempting to embrace Asian mythology and mysticism understanding. Applying emotive LINES as the artist formalist tool, these culturally imbued stylistic paintings took on its formal representation with technical, aesthetics, philosophical and ethical values in a contemporary abstract manner.
Janus is a mythic character named to the double-faced Roman God of Doorway with distinctive features and visions to observe both the exterior and interior spaces. This symbolic referencing is functional in highlighting the development of the opposing structure and the tensions nature, with each painting constructed in an Abstract Expressionist ritualistic horizontal fashion.
Each frame represents the opposed.
Each painting questions the notion of ‘beauty’, ‘accuracy’ and ‘validity’ of existentialism theory;
analysing bipolar views of the mythic self,
life and the incessant search for truth.