Tracey Moffatt

Still and Moving

January 13, 2011 — February 26, 2011


ENLARGE

Plantation (Diptych No. 1), 2009

digital print with archival pigments, InkAid, watercolor paint, and archival glue on handmade Chautara Lokta paper

ditptych: each 18 x 20 in. (46 x 50.5 cm), edition of 12 + 2 AP

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Plantation (Diptych No. 2), 2009

digital print with archival pigments, InkAid, watercolor paint, and archival glue on handmade Chautara Lokta paper

ditptych: each 18 x 20 in. (46 x 50.5 cm), edition of 12 + 2 AP

ENLARGE

Plantation (Diptych No. 3), 2009

digital print with archival pigments, InkAid, watercolor paint, and archival glue on handmade Chautara Lokta paper

ditptych: each 18 x 20 in. (46 x 50.5 cm), edition of 12 + 2 AP

ENLARGE

Plantation (Diptych No. 4), 2009

digital print with archival pigments, InkAid, watercolor paint, and archival glue on handmade Chautara Lokta paper

ditptych: each 18 x 20 in. (46 x 50.5 cm), edition of 12 + 2 AP

ENLARGE

Plantation (Diptych No. 5), 2009

digital print with archival pigments, InkAid, watercolor paint, and archival glue on handmade Chautara Lokta paper

ditptych: each 18 x 20 in. (46 x 50.5 cm), edition of 12 + 2 AP

ENLARGE

Plantation (Diptych No. 6), 2009

digital print with archival pigments, InkAid, watercolor paint, and archival glue on handmade Chautara Lokta paper

ditptych: each 18 x 20 in. (46 x 50.5 cm), edition of 12 + 2 AP

ENLARGE

Plantation (Diptych No. 7), 2009

digital print with archival pigments, InkAid, watercolor paint, and archival glue on handmade Chautara Lokta paper

ditptych: each 18 x 20 in. (46 x 50.5 cm), edition of 12 + 2 AP

ENLARGE

Plantation (Diptych No. 8), 2009

digital print with archival pigments, InkAid, watercolor paint, and archival glue on handmade Chautara Lokta paper

ditptych: each 18 x 20 in. (46 x 50.5 cm), edition of 12 + 2 AP

ENLARGE

Plantation (Diptych No. 9), 2009

digital print with archival pigments, InkAid, watercolor paint, and archival glue on handmade Chautara Lokta paper

ditptych: each 18 x 20 in. (46 x 50.5 cm), edition of 12 + 2 AP

ENLARGE

Plantation (Diptych No. 10), 2009

digital print with archival pigments, InkAid, watercolor paint, and archival glue on handmade Chautara Lokta paper

ditptych: each 18 x 20 in. (46 x 50.5 cm), edition of 12 + 2 AP

ENLARGE

Plantation (Diptych No. 11), 2009

digital print with archival pigments, InkAid, watercolor paint, and archival glue on handmade Chautara Lokta paper

ditptych: each 18 x 20 in. (46 x 50.5 cm), edition of 12 + 2 AP

ENLARGE

Plantation (Diptych No. 12), 2009

digital print with archival pigments, InkAid, watercolor paint, and archival glue on handmade Chautara Lokta paper

ditptych: each 18 x 20 in. (46 x 50.5 cm), edition of 12 + 2 AP

Other, 2010

DVD

7 min., edition of 200

ENLARGE

Installation View of "Still and Moving" at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, January 13 - February 26, 2011

 

 

ENLARGE

Installation View of "Still and Moving" at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, January 13 - February 26, 2011

 

 

ENLARGE

Installation View of "Still and Moving" at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, January 13 - February 26, 2011

 

 

Works

INSTALLATION VIEWS

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Tyler Rollins Fine Art is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Tracey Moffatt, taking place in our Chelsea gallery from January 13 – February 26, 2011. Entitled Still and Moving, it will feature her recent photographic series, Plantation, as well as Other, the final work in her Montages video series inspired by Hollywood films. Moffatt is one of today’s leading international visual artists working in photography, film and video. Many of her photographs and short films have achieved iconic status both in her home country of Australia and around the world. Her photographs play with many different printing processes and have a filmic, narrative quality. Moffatt approaches all her photographic and video work as a film director, and she is known as a powerful visual storyteller.

In a series of 12 diptychs, Plantation sets up an elusive narrative centered around the haunting figure of a man lurking around a colonial-style plantation house in a tropical setting. The atmosphere is one of mystery and menace, desire and longing, evoking issues of race, class, and colonialism in an open-ended manner that shies away from the ideological rigidities of direct, linear narrative, leaving each of us the room to follow our own chain of associations, perhaps arriving at some kind of self-critique. The images are printed on a textured, handmade paper, with added watercolor touches, giving the works the aura of rare vintage objects, fragile relics of another time yet very modern in their cinematic drama. In contrast, Other presents a more light- hearted view of relationships between racial and ethnic groups as seen through the lens of Hollywood, yet it brings to the fore the mixture of desire, violence, and exoticism that inform the image of the “native” in popular culture.

Born in Brisbane in 1960, Moffatt studied visual communications at the Queensland College of Art, from which she graduated in 1982. Since her first solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney in 1989, she has exhibited extensively in museums all over the world. Moffatt first gained significant critical acclaim when her short film, Night Cries, was selected for official competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Her first feature film, beDevil, was also selected for Cannes in 1993.

Moffatt was selected for the international section of the 1997 Venice Biennale and has also been featured in the biennials of Liverpool (2008), São Paulo (1998), Gwangju (1995), and Sydney (2008, 2000, 1996, 1993), as well as the Asia-Pacific Triennial (2009-10). A major exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York in 1997-98 consolidated her international reputation. In 2003, a large retrospective exhibition of Moffatt’s work was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, to record- breaking attendances, and in 2004 it traveled to the Hasselblad Museum in Sweden. In 2006, she had her first retrospective exhibition in Italy, at Spazio Oberdan, Milan. In 2007, her photographic series, Scarred For Life, was exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum and her video, LOVE, at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Also that year, she was awarded the prestigious Infinity award for art photography, selected by an international panel at the International Center of Photography in New York City. A retrospective exhibition of Moffatt’s video montages has just ended at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York. Her work will be featured in a number of international museum shows in 2011.

Tracey Moffatt is represented by Tyler Rollins Fine Art in North America.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

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ADDITIONAL INFO

Press Release

EXHIBITION REVIEWS

Artslant, Other People

February, 2011


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Blouin Artinfo, The Agenda: February 2-8

February, 2011


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The Daily Beast, Tracey Moffatt’s “Other”

February, 2011


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Saatchi Online Magazine, Editor’s Pick – Top International Shows: January 10 – January 17, 2011

January, 2011


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GENERAL PRESS

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Tracey Moffatt

May, 2016


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ArtsHub, Tracey Moffatt: Laudanum and other works

May, 2016


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Artnews, Tracey Moffatt will represent Australia at the 2017 Venice Biennale

December, 2015


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The Sydney Morning Herald, Body Parts

October, 2015


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The West Australian, Calling out around the world

February, 2015


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The Saturday Paper, Free Spirit

December, 2014


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The New York Times, Tracey Moffatt ‘Spirit Landscapes’

December, 2013


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Artforum, Tracey Moffatt

November, 2013


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Daily Serving, Tracey Moffatt: Spirit Landscapes at Tyler Rollins Fine Art

November, 2013


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Australia, Exhibition Catalogue

October, 2013


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Blouin Artinfo, Tracey Moffatt and Juliana Engberg Receive Australia Council Arts Award

March, 2013


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MoMA Film Retrospective

May, 2012


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Brooklyn Museum, Unfolding Tales: Selections from the Contemporary Collection

July, 2011


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Artpace, Tracey Moffatt: Handmade

May, 2011


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The Weekend Australian, Let me tell you a story

March, 2011


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Bronx Museum: Montages

October, 2010


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An Interview with Tracey Moffatt,

2010


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British Journal of Photography, Plantation

July, 2010


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The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Tracey Moffatt

December, 2009


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Photofile, Tracey Moffatt

2008


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The Moving Images of Tracey Moffatt

2007


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The Sydney Morning Herald, Happy snaps that flatter and splatter

July, 2007


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The New York Times Style Magazine, The Goal Standard

March, 2007


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Global Feminisms, Arahmaiani

March, 2007


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New York Magazine, Show and Tell: Tracey Moffatt

January, 2007


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Tracey Moffatt: Between Dreams and Reality

2006


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Eyemazing Magazine, Under the Sign of Scorpio

2006


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Tradition Today: Indigenous Art in Australia

2006


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The Independent, Australian Escapades

February, 2006


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Art Collector, Tracey Moffatt: New Work in New York

2005


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Art & Australia, Reading Tracey Moffatt

2005


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The Sydney Morning Herald, A girl’s own adventure

2005


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Courier Mail, Behind the Gloss

March, 2005


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Vogue Living, Tracey Moffatt

November, 2004


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Tracey Moffatt, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney Catalogue

2004


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Foto, Tracey Moffatt

2004


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The Sydney Morning Herald, Strip Down

August, 2004


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Australian Financial Review, Something More About Moffatt

February, 2004


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Vibe, A Conversation With Tracey Moffatt

February, 2004


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Cream Magazine, Tracey in My Room

January, 2004


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Time, Hearts in the Picture

December, 2003


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The Australian, A singular perspective

December, 2003


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The Sydney Morning Herald, Zooming in on an artful tease

December, 2003


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V Magazine, Shanghai Surprise

May, 2003


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The Washington Post, Moffatt: This Dogma Can Bite

October, 2001


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Invocations, Tracey Moffatt

2001


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Women Artists, Tracey Moffatt

2001


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Los Angeles Times, Switching Roles in Identity Power Plays

April, 2001


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Sunday Herald, Little Miss Moffatt

April, 2001


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Vogue Hommes International, Tracey Moffatt

2000


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World of Dreamings, State Hermitage Museum

2000


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Artnews, Eclectic Eye

February, 2000


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Independent Filmmakers, Tracey Moffatt Hunters & Collectors

September, 1999


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The New York Times, Gazing in a Mirror

September, 1999


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Tracey Moffatt, IMA/Asialink

1999


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Creating One’s Own Reality

1999


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The Village Voice, Laudanum

May, 1999


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The Australian, Disturbing narrative of passion and power

April, 1999


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Free-Falling Catalogue

1998


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Tracey Moffatt: Innocence and Violence

1998


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Dia Art Foundation, Tracey Moffatt: Free-falling

September, 1997


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