Multi-disciplinary artist, Jacob Leary creates artworks that sit in series with one another yet continue, ever-changing.
In ‘The Origins of Superfluous’, the seemingly unordered design found within Leary’s two-dimensional and three-dimensional patterns are derived from particular shapes – tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedrons. His paper cuts, taking strategic planning in both colour placement and pattern accuracy, lie perfectly balanced. Created with intimately constructed shapes that follow historical mathematical guidelines, the end result is captured in two dimensional, flat, framed forms. Within these works however the viewer’s eye falls and slips in and out of line and pattern, and illusionary and physical three-dimensional planes, struggling to decipher between foreground and background, starting point and end.
Flinders Lane Gallery
1 to 19 December, 2015
Melbourne
Double Polygon, 2015, stacked paper cuts framed, 30 x 30cm
Courtesy the artist and Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
