Annette Bezor
In a career spanning almost four decades, award-winning Adelaide artist Annette Bezor has established herself as one of Australia’s most original and thought-provoking painters. Her exhibition at Hill Smith Gallery, entitled Ricochet, features major new works that build on her long-standing investigation of all things female. These works depict paintings within paintings creating multiple versions of the same subject. They are like a revolving door of imagery and include one work from 2003 to emphasise her ongoing fascination with these subjects and also pay homage to these models of the past.
Bezor has included images of herself within three works, positioning herself both as an observer and as an artist’s subject, echoing our duality as viewers and as objects of scrutiny especially within social media. Her work suggests that people exist merely as an evolving succession of images in varying contexts.
The large scale and elaborate framing of 3 major works mimic classical portraits of aristocracy, ironically suggesting that anyone can be elevated to high esteem though such elaborate presentation.
By Chris Reid
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
Ricochet, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
2018
Cocktail, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2016
Precious Luck, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
2015
Face Value, Hill Smith Gallery
Silent Violent Lifetimes in disguise, Australian Galleries. Melbourne
2014
Inscrutable, Australian Galleries, Sydney
2013
Survey show 1997 - 2013, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW
2012
Beautiful Ugly, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
At first sight, Greenhill Galleries, Perth
2011
Lookers, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2010
It’s complicated…. Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide
2009
Speaking silences, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
Silent Violent, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2008
Annette Bezor, Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2007
Annette Bezor, Turner Galleries, Perth
Urban Turbans, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Annette Bezor, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
2006
Mirror Face, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
2005
Flogging the rocking horse, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2004
Witness, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne
If Looks could Kill, Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
2003
Annette Bezor, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
2002
Cloning as ultimate appropriation, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
Blush, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2001
Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1999
SurFace Tension, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Figurative Works, Annette Bezor & Anna Platten, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
2018
She Talks To Rainbows, Adelaide Airport Art at T2
2017
Trace, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
4 Decades, 6 Artists, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
2016
Art Central Hong Kong, Hill Smith Gallery Booth, HK
2015
CACSA Contemporary, SALA Festival, Adelaide
2014
Sugar Coat, Level One Gallery, Hilton Hotel, Adelaide.
2011
Wattle, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2010
Signal 8, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
Doug Moran Portrait Prize, NSW and travelling
2009
Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art gallery of NSW, Sydney
2008
Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2006
Uneasy, Samstag Gallery, Adelaide
2005
Snapshot, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
True portraits, Adelaide Central Gallery
2004
ARCO 2004 (International Art Fair), Greenaway Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Annette Bezor, Carolina Antich. Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
Taipei Art Fair, Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide
2002
Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
Erotica, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne
2001
Orbit, SA Museum Gallery, Adelaide
Awards and Grants
2010
ArtsSA Fellowship
2006
New Work/International Presentation Grant. Arts SA
2003
International Assistance Grant, Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council
2002
New Work Grant. Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council
Collections
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Michell Endowment, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Artbank, Sydney
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Broken Hill Regional Gallery, New South Wales
I.C.I. Collection
Wollongong Art Gallery, New South Wales
Auckland City Gallery, New Zealand
John Sands Collection
Sam & Minnie Smorgon Collection
Victor & Lottie Smorgan Collection
Tasmanian University Gallery
Rockhampton City Gallery
Yarra Collection, Victoria
BHP Billiton
Annette Bezor
The Getaway Face
oil on canvas
165 x 165 cm
SOLD
Annette Bezor
for all the tea in china
Medium:
Acrylic, oil & gold leaf on canvas
Dimensions:
165 x 165 cm
Annette Bezor
golden amy
Medium:
Oil & gold leaf on canvas
Dimensions:
165 x 165 cm
Annette Bezor
Golden Amy (encore)
Gold leaf on Giclee print on canvas
48 x 49cm
Annette Bezor
face value aw
Medium:
Oil on Giclee print on canvas
Dimensions:
165 x 65 cm
Annette Bezor
flawed
Medium:
Acrylic, oil & gold leaf on canvas
Dimensions:
140 x 140 cm
Annette Bezor
face value km
Medium:
Oil on giclee print on canvaa
Dimensions:
165 x 165 cm
Annette Bezor
face value 4
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
140 x 140 cm
Annette Bezor
face value 6
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
140 x 140 cm
Annette Bezor
face value 7
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
140 x 140 cm
Annette Bezor
blind tension
Medium:
Print on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper
Ed 50
Dimensions:
80 x 80 cm
Annette Bezor
french lesson
Medium:
Print on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper
Ed 50
Dimensions:
80 x 80 cm
Annette Bezor
Scandalous
Medium:
Print on hahnemule paper (framed)
Dimensions:
80 x 80 cm
Annette Bezor
baby blues
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
165 x 165 cm
Annette Bezor
Lemon Delicious 1
Oil and gold leaf on canvas
165 x 165 cm
Annette Bezor
Lemon Delicious 3
Oil on canvas
165 x 165 cm
Annette Bezor
Like Snow
Medium:
Acrylic & oil on canvas
Dimensions:
165 x 165 cm
SOLD
Annette Bezor
Entanglement-Complicity
Medium:
Acrylic and oil on canvas
Dimensions:
180 x 280cm