MARIAN TUBBS
new images
9 March – 6 April 2024

STATION | SYDNEY

STATION is delighted to announce Marian Tubbs’ sixth solo exhibition with the gallery new images, an exhibition of assemblage painting that centres on methods of apparatus-driven and gestural image production.

In these new works, Tubbs’ digital paintings are placed in dialogue with AI scenes by way of lenticular photographic printing. Images determined by machine generation are translated by the artist into watery paintings that spill and seep into each other. While working with technology specifically available today, the works reflect on premonitions of early 20th century surrealist painters who created dreamy images as an escape from the horrors of world war.

new images has femme colour palettes colliding with the digital, suggesting a space for sensitive meditations on science-fictive fertilities and multispecies survival. Despite ‘artificial’ mediations, the works in the exhibition read as romantic and emotionally charged. The artwork titles coalesce to perform a poem seemingly unaffected by deep learning. Through new images, we are reminded of Tubbs’ love of the dialectics between emotion and reason, organic life and machining.

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Installation Views

Artworks

Marian Tubbs
seductive like an opal, i do not want to go to mars 2024
lenticular photograph
90.5 × 62.0 cm

Marian Tubbs
untitled 2024
lenticular photograph
92.0 × 61.3 cm

Marian Tubbs
cicadas in the heat, both ear drums 2024
lenticular photograph
92.0 × 61.8 cm

Marian Tubbs
new images 2024
lenticular photograph
91.3 × 62.0 cm

Marian Tubbs
my eye glasses 2024
lenticular photograph
90.0 × 62.0 cm

Marian Tubbs
chef's kiss 2024
lenticular photograph
91.5 × 62.0 cm

Marian Tubbs
vulgar, violent, sensational, ridiculous, crystal smiles 2024
watercolour on hot press 300 gsm paper
83.0 × 64.0 cm

Marian Tubbs
pregnant boyfriend 2024
watercolour on hot press 300 gsm paper
83.0 × 64.0 cm

Marian Tubbs
this book flows like water 2024
watercolour on hot press 300 gsm paper
83.0 × 64.0 cm

Marian Tubbs
until they were gemlike, pressed 2024
watercolour on hot press 300 gsm paper
83.0 × 64.0 cm

Marian Tubbs
exogenous, her vanity requires no excuse 2024
watercolour on hot press 300 gsm paper
83.0 × 64.0 cm

Marian Tubbs
strength is node-to-node 2024
watercolour on hot press 300 gsm paper
83.0 × 64.0 cm