With a vibrant range of limited print editions, DARLINGS is pleased to present an exhibition across our New York and Sydney spaces that explores the different ways in which we express our senses of place and personhood.

As Alexandra Jonscher colourfully abstracts her own portrait in a digital flurry of brushstrokes and selfie pixels, Corey Black's digital manipulations merge organic matter and technological processes. While Jonscher and Black create forms that consider the impact of technology upon our sense of self, painter Lyla Dushas weaves together surrealist scenes that encapsulate mixtures of sense memories to places to which she is still connected, but physically distant.

Though contrasting in media and technique, Gregory Uzelac and Dean Qiulin Li's works provide glimpses of the ways that identity is informed by space, both public and private. Li's documentation of the intimate minutia of social gatherings give us raw, sardonic, but joyful windows into the human spirit. Meanwhile, Uzelac's mythic vistas utilize the tools of his upbringing in New York in the 90s to realize locations that exist somewhere between imagination and memory. Similarly, Joshua Heath plays with naiveté and nostalgia to represent the ideals which we internalize from our heroic figures.

These works serve as looking glasses, putting into perspective the different sensations, tools, ideals, and memories with which we form our sense of connectivity in our (ironically) disconnected present.

Corey Black Private Aircraft Hangar, 2023. Digital print on polypropylene paper. 42 × 29.7 cm. Edition of 5.

Corey Black Factory, 2023. Digital print on polypropylene paper. 42 × 29.7 cm. Edition of 5.

Corey Black Apex, 2023. Digital print on polypropylene paper. 42 × 29.7 cm. Edition of 5.

Corey Black (b. 1997 in Eora/Sydney, NSW) works across and within images and objects through metals, plastics, and pixels. His work speculates on the potential between materiality, bodies and process.

Black completed his postgraduate studies at Australia’s National Art School under the supervision of mentors Hany Armanious and Geoff Kleem. Recently, Black participated in the inaugural Cut N Polish Artist Car Boot Sale at Sydney’s Carriageworks, completed 3 months at the British School at Rome residency, resulting in the June Mostra, Italy 2022. Throughout the past five years of study Black has participated in numerous group and two person shows, been involved in the organisation, curation, and documentation of various exhibitions and undertaken an artist residency at the Corridor Project in Cowra, Australia.

coreymax.com

@corey_max_black

Lyla Dushas Quitting After Tonight (Green), 2023. Silkscreen print on fabric. 33 x 36 cm. Edition of 3.

Lyla Dushas Quitting After Tonight (Beige), 2023. Silkscreen print on fabric. 30 x 33 cm. Edition of 3.

Lyla Dushas (b. 2000, Eora/Sydney, NSW) is a nomadic painter currently practicing across Australia. 

The foundation of Dushas's work has developed from a nomadic lifestyle, encompassing observations that are formed by navigating transient relationships through the intuitive nature of adventure. Engaging with large-scale figures from life and imagination, meshing both domestic with exterior worlds, Dushas gives form to the surreality of closeness to people, places, and things that are not physically present. 

Dushas is a graduate of the National Art School in Sydney, Australia and her work now lives in private collections in Australia, Hong Kong, and New York.

@friendly.aunty

Alexandra Jonscher Narcissus, 2023. Giclee pigment print on cotton rag. 59.4 × 42 cm. Edition of 3.

Alexandra Jonscher Untitled III, 2023. Giclee pigment print on cotton rag. 59.4 × 42 cm. Edition of 3.

Alexandra Jonscher Untitled II, 2023. Giclee pigment print on cotton rag. 59.4 × 42 cm. Edition of 3.

Alexandra Jonscher Echidna, 2023. Giclee pigment print on cotton rag. 59.4 × 42 cm. Edition of 3.

Alexandra Jonscher (b. 1997, Chicago, IL) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Eora/Sydney, Australia working across painting, photo-media, sculpture and installation. Her work extracts and abstracts objects from the digital world into the real world in order to come to terms with the experience of navigating life, death, identity, and relationships both on and offline. She combines digital technology with traditional painting to explore the blurred lines between the virtual and the physical, focusing on how online space effects our understanding of sense of self. 

Jonscher was awarded the Zelda Steadman Young Artist Scholarship from Sydney College of the Arts in 2019, and has been a selected finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown Art Centre, ‘EMERGING 2023’ at Gosford Regional Gallery, and ‘Hatched: The National Graduate Show’ at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Jonscher graduated from Sydney College of the Arts with a Bachelor of Visual Art in 2019 and a First Class Honours Degree in 2021.

www.alexandrajonscher.com

@allie_jonscher

Dean Qiulin Li, Splash, 2022. Lambda C Type Print on Kodak Matte, 30 x 20 cm.

Dean Qiulin Li, Cooking Competition, 2022. Lambda C Type Print on Kodak Matte, 56 x 70 cm.

Dean Qiulin Li, Blue. Couch, 2022. Archival Inkjet Print on Kodak Matte, 20 x 30 cm.

Dean Qiulin Li, Snake, 2022. Lambda C Type Print on Kodak Matte, 30 x 40 cm.

Dean Qiulin Li, Red Nails, 2022. Lambda C Type Print on Kodak Matte, 40 x 30 cm.

Dean Qiulin Li, Eighteen, 2022. Lambda C Type Print on Kodak Matte, 30 x 40 cm.

Dean Qiulin Li (b. 1992 in Guangzhou) uses photography and photographic media to explore the relationships between people and the public and private spaces in which they live. Li's work is aesthetic anthropology. With lens, light, and shutter he studies the impact of environment on people’s identities, social behaviours, and ways of thinking.

Always expanding beyond the expectations of photography, Li seeks to break the boundary between artwork and viewer through experimental presentation, creating open and immersive viewing experiences that stir his audience’s sense of place and collective memory.

www.deanqiulinli.com

@deanqiulinli

Gregory Uzelac Greener Grass, 2023. Digital print on polypropylene paper. 29.7 × 21 cm. Edition of 8.

Gregory Uzelac (b. 1990 in New York, NY) is an artist, writer, and academic from New York City currently working in Sydney, Australia. Uzelac completed a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University in 2013 focusing on screenwriting and Asian religion and postcolonial theory. In 2022 he completed a Master of Fine Arts by Research at Sydney University, where he is currently a researcher in the Studies of Religion department.

guzelac.com

@greguzelac