West Wing Light & Shelf Life
John R. Neeson
11 Jan 2011 - 16 Jan 2011 · West Space · The West Wing Back Space
West Wing Light is an installation of venue-specific representational works, made on site, that directly reference the architecture and changes of light throughout the day at The West Wing space, the progress of which can be viewed over two weeks.
Shelf Life a sequence of small still life paintings of objects collected from the cafes on the same level as The West Wing. Shelf Life “invites a slippage between notions of still life and shelf life. Neeson nods in the direction of the retailer’s need for a quick turnaround of goods, but the imperatives of use-by dates are not known in the style-conscious contemporary art world. Still life, a genre once thought not quite muscular enough for careerist modern artists, has its own imperatives of freshness and vitality – in fact, shelf life.” – Penny Webb, Summerguide, theage (Melbourne) magazine, Issue 75, January 2011.



