Becc Orszag, 'Hope (align yourself with me)' Installation View

Incinerator Art Award - Art for Social Change 2017

October 5, 2017

INCINERATOR ART AWARD: ART FOR SOCIAL CHANGE | INCINERATOR GALLERY | MELBOURNE
7 OCTOBER - 26 NOVEMBER 2017

OPENING NIGHT FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER 6-8PM

Becc Ország is a finalist in this years Incinerator Art Award: Art for Social Change with her drawing 'Hope (align yourself with me)'. The Incinerator Art Award is $10,000 non-acquisitive award of national significance with entries received from every state and territory in Australia. The award showcases the work of 22 artists who interrogate contemporary culture in their practices to achieve and influence social change.

EXHIBITION : 'Sanctuary' at Nicholas Projects

June 11, 2016

SANCTUARY | NICHOLAS PROJECTS | MELBOURNE
17 JUNE - 2 JULY 2016

Please join us for the opening of Becc Ország's solo exhibition on Friday the 17th June from 6pm. To be opened by Simon Gregg, Curator, Gippsland Art Gallery.

Becc Ország’s Sanctuary is an exploration of paramnesia, in which fantasy is confused with reality. This new series of drawings presents an idyllic yet perplexing world in which the profound coexists with the perturbed.

National Works on Paper 2016

May 16, 2016

Becc's most ambitious drawing to date 'The Source of All Things (Birth of The Rivers)' has been selected as a finalist for the 2016 National Works on Paper Prize at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.

Sixty-six artists from around Australia have been shortlisted from close to 1,000 entries for the $50,000 National Works on Paper prizes and acquisitions. The prize, the most prestigious acquisitive prize and exhibition of its type in Australia, showcases recent works by artists working in the fields of drawing, printmaking, digital prints and paper sculpture.

'Cannot Contain This' - charcoal on four sheets of cotton paper, 200×152 cm, 2009. Winner of Siemens RMIT Fine Art Travelling Scholarship and Acquisition. — 'Cannot Contain This' - charcoal on four sheets of cotton paper, 200×152 cm, 2009. Winner of Siemens RMIT Fine Art Travelling Scholarship and Acquisition.

INTERVIEW: In Conversation with Becc Ország

December 12, 2015

by Katie Paine for Nicholas Projects

Melbourne artist Becc Ország creates exquisite drawings that pull their viewer into eerie and fantastical other worlds. Despite an underlying element of the bizarre, Ország’s body of work is steeped in human past and in art history. Histories, both real and imagined, are crucial to Orszag’s practice. In her Immaculate Landscape seriesthere is something of the devotional: perhaps of gilded illuminated manuscripts or fantasies of a Garden of Eden.

Incinerator Art Award - Art for Social Change 2015

October 15, 2015

Becc Orszag, Installation View, Linden New Art

Becc Ország is a finalist in this years Incinerator Art Award with her series of drawings 'The False Victor', 'The Appointed' and 'The Revived'. This years prize exhibits works that respond to the themes of environment, sustainability and society and reinforce the idea that art can create deep and lasting social change. Exhibition of finalists work runs from 9 October - 29 November 2015 at Incinerator Gallery.

Incinerator Gallery
9 October - 29 November
180 Holmes Rd, Moonee Ponds, VIC
http://incineratorgallery.com

‘Rehearsal for all are equal and all may be crowned emperor’ detail

WINNER: Young and Emerging Artist Award at Hazelhurst Art on Paper Prize 2015

May 30, 2015

Becc Ország was awarded The Young and Emerging Artist Award of $5000 in the Hazelhurst Art on Paper Prize. Her winning entry ‘Rehearsal for all are equal and all may be crowned emperor’ plays with the phenomenon of non-existence, distraction and escapism. She looks at our inherent need to be lead and belong, and brings attention to our tendency to deflect responsibility and blur lines between reality and fantasy in an effort to bring meaning into life.

Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award 2015

May 8, 2015

'Rehearsal for all are equal and all may be crowned emperor' - graphite and carbon pencil on layered paper.

Becc Orszag's drawing 'Rehearsal for all are equal and all may be crowned emperor' is a finalist in the 2015 Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award. This years award attracted over 1500 entries by more than 750 artists. With prizes totalling $26 000 the biennial Hazelhurst Art Award showcases outstanding art created with, on or about paper. Artists compete for the $15 000 major award, the $5000 Emerging Artist Award, the $5000 Friend's of Hazelhurst Local Artist Award, and the $1000 People's Choice Award. The exhibition will present a diverse range of paper media and industry techniques, including drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, paper cuts and video. Exhibition of finalists work runs from 30 May - 26 July 2015 Hazelhurst Regional Gallery.

Hazelhurst Regional Gallery
30 May- 26 July
782 Kingsway, Gymea, NSW
www.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au

'The Sisters' - graphite and carbon pencil on layered watercolour paper, 41x55cm, 2012 — 'The Sisters' - graphite and carbon pencil on layered watercolour paper, 41x55cm, 2012

HIGHLY COMMENDED: The Churchie National Emerging Art Prize 2013

July 28, 2013

Becc Orszag's three drawings Do as we do, The Sisters and My other half have been awarded the Highly Commended Prize at this years Churchie National Emerging Art Prize by leading Sydney art dealer and gallerist, Roslyn Oxley. Almost 300 artists from all Australian states and territories entered 'the churchie national emerging art prize' this year...

EXHIBITION: 'Promised Land' at dianne tanzer gallery

October 20, 2012

'The Test Pool' - graphite and carbon pencil on layered paper, 41x55cm, 2012

THE PROMISED LAND | DIANNE TANZER GALLERY | MELBOURNE
20 OCT - 17 NOVEMBER 2012

Becc Orszag's debut solo show with diannetanzer gallery + projects opens today at 3pm.

An exhibition of new drawings by Melbourne artist Becc Orszag. Orszag's work questions the voyeur’s moral ambivalence and role as a witness to their own experience. It’s the potential for upheaval or worse, nothingness that we constantly seem to be on the edge of. Unseen and unspoken, unaware of just how close to that line we are. Through highly detailed small scale drawings Orszag explores unresolved narratives forcing individual observation and interpretation. Figures are removed from their original contexts into dissected, re-imagined, illusionary realms. Gestures are exaggerated, mimicry is amplified and gazes are obscured. The protagonists become anonymous and redundant stripped of power and will. The viewer unable to meet their eye becomes a witness acutely aware of their voyeuristic behaviour.

dianne tanzer gallery + projects
20 October - 17 November
108 - 110 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, VIC
dtanzer@ozemail.com.au
www.diannetanzergallery.net.au

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EXHIBITION: Notfair Primal Mutation

July 30, 2012

OPENING NIGHT THURSDAY 2ND AUGUST 6-8PM

Becc Orszag is taking part in NotFair, a statellite fair to the Melbourne ArtFair. Searing line work, distended bodies, apocalyptic visions and lyrical poetics combine in a combustible confluence in the second instalment of the rigorously independent art event NotFair. It is a return to the hand, and somewhat anti-digital, creating a mutated discourse across painting, drawing, installation and photography.

EXHIBITION: 'Autocue' at Daine Singer Gallery

October 13, 2011

'The quiet walkover' (detail) - graphite and carbon pencil on paper, 28x38cm, 2011

AUTOCUE | DAINE SINGER GALLERY |MELBOURNE
8 - 31 OCTOBER 2011

OPENING NIGHT 13 OCTOBER 6PM

Becc Orszag’s drawings of eerie mountain scapes and figures engaged in ritualistic actions imply an unexplained history; off-handed notations and seemingly careless markings surround these meticulously rendered scenes. Working from found imagery, Orszag removes figures from their original contexts into dissected, re-imagined, illusionary realms. Gestures are exaggerated, mimicry is amplified and gazes are obscured. The artist explores the de-individualisation of society, voyeurism and the mindless acceptance of what we witness. – Daine Singer

AUTOCUE CATALOGUE ESSAY by Ashley Crawford

Daine Singer Gallery
8-31 October
325 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC
www.dainesinger.com

EXHIBITION: 'Point of no return' at dianne tanzer gallery

August 20, 2011

'Neutralisation' detail - graphite and carbon pencil on paper, 28x38cm, 2011

POINT OF NO RETURN | DIANNE TANZER GALLERY | MELBOURNE
27 AUGUST - 10 SEPTEMBER 2011

OPENING 20 AUGUST 3 - 5PM

Point of No Return opens this afternoon at diannetanzer gallery + projects. Becc Orszag is showing along side Raphael Buttonshaw, Tobi Clark, Katie Lee, Jessie Lumb & Becc Orszag. The exhibition is curated by Rachel Feery & Bettina Garnier.

dianne tanzer gallery + projects
27 August - 13 September
108 - 110 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, VIC
dtanzer@ozemail.com.au
www.diannetanzergallery.net.au