PAREIDOLIA

At the core of PAREIDOLIA lies an engagement with imagination and recognition as a fundamental human impulse. Drawing on childhood memories; moments of gazing into patterns and discovering faces, noses, eyes within knots and patterns of wood – Quinn visits the phenomenon of pareidolia. Faces emerge, dissolve and reconfigure throughout the works; they are never singular or stable, but rather reflections of shared emotional states of anxiety, relief, amazement and joy. They echo the strange rhythm of a daily life, where emotional highs and lows sit side by side. The exhibition invites viewers into Quinns way of seeing, where meaning is fluid, forms are unstable, and lines of faces are everywhere you look.

Like the works of historic abstract artists, Saxon Quinn’s paintings are carefully balanced, with great attention to the graphical composition of the elements, vibrant colours on earthy backgrounds. As a remarkable detail on many of Saxon’s works, he continues his painting on the frames. Saxon Quinn breaks the tradition letting the work overflow and continue onto the frame. The work and its abundant energy become something that cannot be contained.