
JOHN NIXON: GROUPS + PAIRS 2016 – 2020
Published by Schwartz City 2020
Born Sydney, Australia 1949
Died Melbourne, Australia 2020
John Nixon was a seminal figure in contemporary Australian abstraction. From 1968, his work was dedicated to the on-going experimentation, analysis and development of radical modernism, minimalism, the monochrome, constructivism, non-objective art and the readymade; which were key reference points in his work. Experimental Painting Workshop (EPW), which the artist named in 1990, but which covers works dating back to 1968, formed the basis of Nixon’s rigorous and long-standing intellectual investigation into the making of art, which over time expanded to encompass not only painting, but collage, photography, video, dance and experimental music performance.
Nixon exhibited regularly and widely throughout his career. He held more than 70 solo exhibitions since 2001, including the Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst Otterndorf, Otterndorf and the Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland. He represented Australia at Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany in 1982.
Nixon’s works are held in every major state museum collection in Australia, and selected international public collections include: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum Sztuki, Lodz; Foire National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen; The Artists Museum, Lodz; Herning Kunstmuseumm, Denmark; Daimler Chrysler Collection, Berlin; Kunstmuseum Esberg, Denmark; Espace d’Art Contemporain, Demigny; and National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Seoul.
John Nixon
Groups + Pairs 2016 – 2020
John Nixon
EPW: Selected Paintings
5th July – 18th August 2018
Anna Schwartz Gallery
John Nixon
Yellow Monochrome (Japan)
1st – 24th September 2016
Anna Schwartz Gallery
John Nixon
EPW: Various Paintings
5th February – 21st March 2015
Anna Schwartz Gallery
John Nixon
EPW
11th July – 24th August 2013
Anna Schwartz Gallery
John Nixon
EPW: Silver
28th September – 5th November 2011
Anna Schwartz Gallery
John Nixon
EPW: Polychrome Applied Painting
16th April – 9th May 2009
Anna Schwartz Gallery
John Nixon
EPW: Silver
1st – 24th June 2006
Anna Schwartz Gallery
John Nixon
Untitled, 2015
enamel on MDF and masonite
60 x 60 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel on three canvases
40 x 30 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel and mixed material on canvas
50 x 31 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel and mixed materials on canvas
61 x 60
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel and mixed materials on canvas
65 x 49 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel and mixed materials on canvas
40 x 45 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel on MDF
76 x 75 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel and mixed materials on canvas
56 x 39 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel on three canvases
64 x 45 x 20 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel and mixed materials on canvas
80 x 57 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel on two canvases
82 x 51 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel on MDF
60 x 87 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel and mixed materials on canvas
90 x 60 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (black and white monochrome), 2013
enamel on canvas and wood
55 x 60 x 5 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (white monochrome), 2011
enamel on canvas and wood
60 x 75 x 3.2 cm
John Nixon
SILVER MONOCHROME, 2011
enamel on sand and two canvases
96 x 65 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (white monochrome), 2011
enamel on canvas and wood
60 x 60 x 7 cm
John Nixon
SILVER MONOCHROME, 2010
enamel on three canvases
39 x 38 x 6 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (Tableaux), 2009
four paintings, turntable and table
3 paintings enamel on MDF: 45 x 60 cm (each)
1 painting on osb: 60 x 90 cm
table: 80 x 160 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2009
enamel on MDF
60 x 122 cm
John Nixon
Polychrome Painting, 2009
enamel on MDF
two panels: 60 x 90 cm (each)
John Nixon
SILVER MONOCHROME, 2008
enamel on three canvases
78 x 78 cm
John Nixon
Project for a Wall Painting Colour Group E (Random), 2008
enamel on MDF
60 x 90 cm
John Nixon
Project for a Wall Painting Colour Group E (Random), 2008
enamel on MDF
60 x 90 cm
John Nixon
Project for a Curtain for an Opera House Colour Group E (Random), 2008
enamel on MDF
60 x 90 cm
John Nixon
Silver Monochrome, 2004
enamel on MDF
90 x 60 cm
John Nixon
Konstruction, 1993
enamel on Masonite and mixed materials
61 x 46 cm
John Nixon
Pink felt circle with hammer, 1993
felt, hammer , ruler, mixed media
37 x 38 x 10 cm
John Nixon
White + Ochre Cross, 1989
enamel and acrylic on plywood
36 x 28 cm
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