DEAN CROSS
OVERTURE (GODZILLA)
3 February – 2 March 2024

STATION | SYDNEY

STATION is delighted to present our forthcoming exhibition with Dean Cross, OVERTURE (GODZILLA), his second solo presentation with the gallery.

Centralised around the fear and looming threat of the unknown, Cross uses an erratic combination of text, colour and collage to challenge the audience in finding new connections (or paradoxes) between the works and to generate new meaning.  Through his manipulation of line, over exaggerated features and abstracted shapes, Cross confronts the expectations of painting, whilst revealing the truths of portraiture and what is unable to be concealed.

Coinciding with Cross’ exhibition, Black Smoke White Walls at Gertrude Contemporary, OVERTURE (GODZILLA) is the introduction to a larger series of upcoming projects and exhibitions for the artist. Interested in the collisions of materials, ideas and histories, Cross is motivated by an understanding that his practice sits within a continuum of the oldest living culture on Earth – and enacts First Nations sovereignty through expanded contemporary art methodologies. His cross-disciplinary practice often confronts the legacies of modernism, rebalancing dominant cultural and social histories.

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Installation Views

Artworks

Dean Cross
On Practice 2019-2024
timber, paper, cardboard, canvas, synthetic polymer, staples, oil and found photograph on linen
129.5 × 112.0 cm

Dean Cross
On Contradiction 2008-2024
paper, cotton, laminate flooring, expanding foam, vinyl, canvas, steel nails and synthetic polymer on linen
121.5 × 130.5 cm

Dean Cross
Dream Green 2019-2024
Ngunnawal ochre, synthetic polymer and oil on linen and canvas
61.0 × 91.0 cm

Dean Cross
Pastoral 2019-2024
styrofoam, Australian wool, paper, cardboard and oil on linen
41.0 × 49.5 cm

Dean Cross
South East 2024
synthetic polymer, cardboard and glassine on linen
61.5 × 51.0 cm

Dean Cross
Mask Construct 2024
timber, steel fixing, Australian wool and oil on Hessian
61.0 × 47.7 cm

Dean Cross
To Learn To Teach 2024
oil with lead on linen
61.0 × 51.0 cm

Dean Cross
Profile #2 2024
oil on 300 gsm Arches paper
165.3 × 128.3 cm framed

Dean Cross
Profile #1 2024
oil on 300 gsm Arches paper
174.2 × 128.0 cm framed

Dean Cross
Figure Head One 2018
synthetic polymer and paper on found photograph
63.5 × 52.8 cm framed

Dean Cross
Figure Head Two 2018
synthetic polymer and paper on found photograph
63.5 × 52.8 cm framed

Dean Cross
Figure Head Three 2018
synthetic polymer and paper on found photograph
63.5 × 52.8 cm framed

Dean Cross
B. Head 2016
block ink on paper
28.5 × 20.0 cm | 85.5 × 67.3 (framed)

Dean Cross
A. Head 2016
block ink on paper
28.5 × 20.0 cm | 85.5 × 67.3 (framed)