Rodney Glick
Head
2009
Oil on canvas
150 x 200cm
Rodney Glick
Tabaccoland
2009
Oil on canvas
150 x 200cm
photo:Tony Nathan
Extract from Review:
RIC SPENCER The West Australian Newspaper, June 18, 2010
In We Are All Rich In Doubt, we enter under an archway of crates (the ones the paintings where delivered from Indonesia in) into a gallery that was seemingly not finished before the show. By allowing the patchwork paint to show through Glick immediately begins to undermine the authority of the white space and therefore indeed any authority his work achieves inside this space. Likewise his works are raw, Philip Guston-like works that refuse to take on the seriousness of their own history. But beware, this does not mean they dont take on serious issues, like for instance religion, sacred geometry, sex, politics and for good measure the existence of God.
The ebb and flow of perceived meaning and any form of concrete realisation makes it difficult to nail the works down but Glicks paintings allow the easy flow of meaning to not get caught, nor indeed stabilised, while providing plenty of scope for self-reflection and analysis if you so desire. God, a blob of paint, Tobaccoland, written in cigarettes, Ode to Escher, a badly sketched continual cube and Stream all feel like flows of consciousness but offer up more then a fair narrative on the constant spiraling cycle of issues we face on a day-to- day basis, and the battle our mind has to keep up with environmental influences and philosophical charters that sculpt us.