
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
Monochrome/Piano 1992
15th September – 15th October 2022
Connors Connors Gallery
John Nixon
White Paintings
13th August – 17th September 2022
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, Stieg Persson, John Nixon
Light & Darkness:Late modernism and the Power Collection
10th January – 27th November 2022
Chau Chak Wing Museum
John Nixon
John Nixon in the Lyon Collection
23rd June – 19th December 2021
Lyon Housemuseum
John Nixon
Groups + Pairs 2016 – 2020
21st March – 19th December 2020
Anna Schwartz Gallery
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 (White Monochrome), nd
Enamel paint on Masonite
91.5 x 61 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), nd
Enamel paint on wood frame and canvas
35 x 35 x 2 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), c2000
Enamel paint on board on wood
11.5 x 11.5 x 5 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome with Circle), c1994
Felt and enamel paint on board, on wood
12.5 x 12.5 x 5 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome with Eggshell), c 1985
Paint and eggshells on board
91.5 x 61 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Cross), c 1985
Enamel paint on chipboard
61 x 45.5 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 2020
Enamel paint on canvas and hessian
25.5 x 18 x 2 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome with Curve Ruler), 2019
Enamel paint and plastic ruler on canvas
53 x 45.5 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 2019
Enamel paint and Polyfilla on canvas
30 x 20 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2015
enamel on MDF and masonite
60 x 60 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 2015
Enamel paint and cardboard tube on canvas
68 x 55.7 x 10 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 2015
Enamel paint and cardboard tubes on canvas
75 x 59 x 17 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 2014
Enamel paint on two canvases
81.5 x 51 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome with Picture Frame), 2014
Paint on canvas, wood, wood frame
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome on Three Canvases), 2014
Enamel paint on three canvases
64 x 45 x 20 cm
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel and mixed material on canvas
50 x 31 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome with Spoon), 2014
Enamel paint on two canvases with spoon and wood
64 x 45 x 6 cm
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 and mixed materials on canvas
61 x 60
John Nixon
Untitled, 2014
enamel on three canvases
40 x 30 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (black and white monochrome), 2013
enamel on canvas and wood
55 x 60 x 5 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 75 x 3.2 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 2011
Enamel paint on canvas and wood
60 x 60 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 2011
Enamel paint on canvas and wood
60 x 60 x 4 cm
John Nixon
SILVER MONOCHROME, 2010
enamel on three canvases
39 x 38 x 6 cm
John Nixon
Polychrome Painting, 2009
enamel on MDF
two panels: 60 x 90 cm (each)
John Nixon
Untitled, 2009
enamel on MDF
60 x 122 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
Project for a Wall Painting Colour Group E (Random), 2008
enamel on MDF
60 x 90 cm
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 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
Untitled (White Cross), 1994
Enamel paint on board, on wood
11.5 x 11.5 x 5 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome with Circle), 1994
Perspex and enamel paint on board, on wood
11.5 x 11.5 x 5 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 1994
Enamel paint on denim on wood
15 x 15 x 5 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 1994
Enamel paint on plywood
91.5 x 61 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 1993
Enamel paint on onion bag on Masonite and wood
46 x 46 cm
John Nixon
Pink felt circle with hammer, 1993
felt, hammer , ruler, mixed media
37 x 38 x 10 cm
John Nixon
Konstruction, 1993
enamel on Masonite and mixed materials
61 x 46 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 1991
Enamel paint on hessian
38 x 31 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 1991
Enamel paint on denim
36.5 x 36.5 x 3 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 1989
Enamel paint on hessian
85 x 68 cm
John Nixon
White + Ochre Cross, 1989
enamel and acrylic on plywood
36 x 28 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 1986
Enamel paint and grit on board
69 x 69 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 1986
Enamel paint on found stucco
56.5 x 56.5 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Cross Banner), 1985
Enamel paint on hessian, rope
56 x 47.5 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), 1985
Enamel paint and rice on canvas board
25 x 20 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Cross), 1985
Enamel paint on hessian
60 x 48 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Felt), 1974
Felt on wood
9 x 9 x 4 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), Enamel paint on textured board, rope
45.5 x 45.5 cm
John Nixon
Untitled (White Monochrome), Enamel on Masonite with bottle tops and coins
61 x 61 cm
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