Tyne Gordon, Heatsink II, 2023

Tyne Gordon
Heatsink II, 2023
oil on copper, pewter and found materials
220x170mm

These works were made for Silo, Gordon’s solo exhibition at Jonathan Smart Gallery, 2023.

In response to these paintings, The Physics Room curator Jane Wallace wrote, “the aqua oxidisation of a reaction on copper channels through the work… [it] hints at the diagrammatic, like patches of cool on a heat map, the slow-moving computer blue radar tracking a flight path, a meteorological forecast, the timing of the tides, vague murmurs of an ultrasound; at the edges, where the cast frame reveals electrical wires in the same blue housing, it’s a switchboard, a finely-tuned arrangement of information and pathways, connections that, at a glance, seem dense and out of reach, but on closer inspection, reveal the world as it is, just retold at a different frame rate, a new pace, a timescale with breathing room for interpretation, condensation and intuition–where a stream of water is slowed down enough that it might bead from a tap in droplets, as pearls, loose beads, half-marbles, able to separate and then, meld, with another.”

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Tyne Gordon is an artist working and living in Ōtautahi. Known for her gestural and explorative approach to painting and sculpture, Gordon revels in the various qualities of her medium to create texture and energy in the surfaces of her work.

Recent solo exhibitions include Silo at Jonathan Smart Gallery, and Sourdust at Jhana Millers Gallery. Gordon was also included in the group exhibition Spring Time is Heart-break: Contemporary Art in Aotearoa in 2023.