The Commercial | Oscar Perry news

» 03/08/2023: Oscar Perry is currently in Sweden participating in the Småland triennial 2023, the first instance of a recurring collaboration between art institutions, art practitioners and smaller art societies. The theme for this year’s triennial “Små Land” (Small Land) stems from the historical name used to describe the chequered landscape of Småland . visit exhibition website.
» 11/03/2022: Oscar Perry is co-producing a car boot art fair at ACCA Melbourne as a concluding event for the exhibition Who’s afraid of public space? ACCA will activate public outdoor space surrounding the gallery for the one-day only presentation of DAS BOOT: Artist Car Boot Fair, curated by Melbourne/ Naarm-based artists Oscar Perry and Esther Stewart. ACCA Forecourt, Saturday 19/03/22, 11-4pm, 111 Sturt Street, Southbank, Melbourne.
» 01/05/2021: A feature article on Oscar Perry's recent solo exhibition at The Commercial, HIGH MIDDLE AGES, written by Steve Cox is in the latest issue of Vault Australasian Art and Culture. "Oscar Perry's latest exhibition is a kaleidoscope of historical reference and cultural allusion rendered in bold gesture across paintings and sculptures that, together with the works' evocative titles, weave connective threads across time and space." Issue 34, May - July 2021, pp78-82
» 18/05/2020: The Commercial will be open 11am - 4pm for the final two Saturdays of our current group exhibition, The Humanity. The exhibition presents two new works each by Diena Georgetti, Patrick Hartigan, Oscar Perry, Jude Rae and Yasmin Smith and two late works by Gunter Christmann. Saturdays 23/05/20 and 30/05/20.
» 22/04/2020: As part of the program for The Humanity, a group exhibition with new work by Diena Georgetti, Patrick Hartigan, Oscar Perry, Jude Rae and Yasmin Smith and late work by Gunter Christmann, Oscar Perry will be presenting a music set on The Commercial’s Instagram, from 3pm AEST Saturday 25/04/20. We hope you can join us. The artists in the exhibition will be taking over The Commercial’s Instagram each week of the exhibition: Oscar Perry: 29/04/20 - 02/05/20; Patrick Hartigan: 06/05/20 - 09/05/20; Yasmin Smith: 13/05/20 - 16/05/20; Jude Rae: 20/05/20 - 23/05/20; Diena Georgetti: 27/05/20 - 30/05/20.
» 02/09/2019: Oscar Perry is in a group exhibition, Saltbox Catslide Roof, at Ve.Sch, Vienna. Artists include Julia Hohenwarter, Peter Höll, Anna Hostek, Oscar Perry, Zlatan Pintek and Aline Sofie Rainer. Exhibition: 07/09/19 - 21/09/19. Opening 07/09/19, 3-10pm.
» 18/05/2019: Oscar Perry is launching his poetry book, 'A car, a man, a maraca', published by Foolscap Publishing, at The Labour in Vain, Fitzroy Melbourne, 5pm Saturday 01/06/19.
» 29/07/2018: The Commercial is excited to be exhibiting at the new Melbourne Art Fair in the Southbank Arts Precinct, 2-5 August. We are presenting an exhibition of works by Diena Georgetti and Oscar Perry that approaches both artists' interests in architectural and social contexts and constructed languages. A publication has been produced to accompany the exhibition. We are Stand A9 in the Riding Hall. Tickets available from Melbourne Art Fair website.
» 05/03/2018: Oscar Perry's The Texas fast shooter fallacy/ Velvet hush puppies, acquired by Artbank in 2017, is being included in the group exhibition Conscious Process at Artbank's gallery space in Alexandria, Sydney. Opening Thursday 08/03/18.
» 05/03/2018: Art Almanac has published an interview with Oscar Perry in the lead up to his upcoming solo exhibition ‘The Michelin Star’ at The Commercial. The exhibition, an installation of both painting and sculptural works, opens 10/03/18. Interview by Elli Walsh.
» 16/09/2017: It is a pleasure to announce that Oscar Perry's painting, The Texas fast shooter fallacy/Velvet hush puppies, exhibited by The Commercial at Sydney Contemporary, has been acquired by Artbank. It is the first acquisition of Perry's work by a public collection in Australia.
» 02/08/2017: Oscar Perry is presenting an exhibition of collaborative paintings with fellow artist, Benjamin Sexton, at the artist-run-initiative, The Honeymoon Suite, Melbourne, opening Thursday 03/08/17, 6-8pm. exhibition 03/08/17 - 26/08/17.
» 17/07/2017: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks, 7-10 September, 2017. We are presenting our largest art fair stand to date with all new works by Bonita Bub, bonMitch Cairns, Diena Georgetti, Patrick Hartigan, Anna Kristensen and Oscar Perry. Please contact the gallery to receive a preview of works in the lead up to the fair. Stand E06
» 16/06/2017: Oscar Perry has contributed work to the 9 X 5 NOW exhibition, curated by Elizabeth Gower, at Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. 9 X 5 NOW showcases generations of practicing artists who have studied or taught at the National Gallery School or VCA Art. The most experienced artist represented attended the National Gallery School in the 1940s, and the youngest completed studies at the VCA just one year ago. All works reproduced in online exhibition catalogue. exhibition dates: 16/06/17 - 25/06/17.
» 30/05/2017: Oscar Perry has a solo exhibition, The Natural, at the Adelaide artist-run-initiative Fontanelle until 23/06/17.
» 28/05/2017: It is with great pleasure that The Commercial announces that it is representing Oscar Perry. Perry (born 1988, Kent, UK) is a Daylesford and Melbourne-based artist whose energetic studio practice is focused primarily on abstract painting. The work however occupies both a decidedly three-dimensional space and a web-based informational space in the professed motivation of its painterly gesture and in its amused and formal extension into the realm of sculpture. At its core is a serious affection for the muscularity of late modernism. In 2016, Perry was included in the landmark survey exhibition of contemporary Australian painting, Painting. More Painting, curated by Max Delany, Annika Kristensen and Hannah Mathews at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. He has presented solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in commercial galleries and artist-run-initiatives in Australia and New Zealand since 2011. His work is in the Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland. The Commercial will present Perry’s work as part of a group exhibition at Sydney Contemporary Art Fair in September 2017 in advance of a solo exhibition at the gallery in March 2018.