Lot 42

Niagara Galleries, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne

Kevin Lincoln: New Paintings 2001, Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, 31 July - 1 September 2001, cat. no. 20 (illus.)

"Kevin Lincoln is primarily known for his still life paintings; bowl and bottle shapes that inhabited an increasingly shallower picture space. Using muted colours, these shapes appeared to sit on the same place as the dark backgrounds they were silhouetted against creating an ambiguous friction in the line between two areas of colour. In his recent paintings, the still life elements have disappeared, yet this same ambiguous line remains between abstract areas of muted colour. The eye absorbs the flat, evenly painted areas of paint, lulled into contemplative meditation, these uneven borders create a mild jolt, like the change of tone in a Gregorian chant." - Michael Wardell, 2001 (excerpt, exhibition statement)

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