Becc Orszag has designed the artwork for Melbourne band Who's This? new single 'Cosmic Nihilistic'.
HOUZZ STUDIO TOUR
Houzz.com has featured Becc's studio in Creatives at Home: Becc Orszag in her Converted Garage Studio. Visit the link for more pictures and an interview about Becc's studio space.
Paul Guest Prize 2016
Becc is a finalist in this years Paul Guest Prize with her drawing 'Awakening'. The Paul Guest Prize is a non-acquisitive biennial cash prize of $12,000, highlighting contemporary drawing practice in Australia. The Prize was initiated by former Family Court Judge and Olympic rower, the Honourable Paul Guest QC and encourages artists from across Australia to engage with the important medium of drawing and to create challenging and unique art works. This year, the judge is renowned draftsman and Australian artist, Godwin Bradbeer. The exhibition of finalists work will be on display at:
Bendigo Art Gallery
27 August - 16 October 2016
42 View Street, Bendigo, VIC
www.bendigoartgallery.com.au
M Collection Award 2016
'Immaculate Landscape VI' - graphite pencil and 24kt gold leaf on paper, 53x40cm, 2015
Becc is a finalist in this years M Collection Art Award with her drawing 'Immaculate Landscape VI'. The announcement of the $7000 Acquisitive Prize and opening of the finalists exhibition is on 25 August 2016 at Gallerysmith, the exhibition runs until 3 September 2016.
Gallerysmith
25 August - 3 September
170-174 Abbotsford Street,
North Melbourne, Victoria
www.gallerysmith.com.au
EXHIBITION : 'Sanctuary' at Nicholas Projects
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.
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National Works on Paper 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.
Read MoreAdelaide Perry Prize for Drawing 2016
'Immaculate Landscape V' (detail) - graphite, carbon pencil and 24kt gold on paper, 53x40cm
Becc Ország is a finalist in this years Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing with her stunning work 'Immaculate Landscape V', graphite, carbon pencil and 24kt gold on paper 53x40cm. This years judge Ms Julie Ewington will announce the $25,000 acquisitive prize on Friday 26 February at 7 pm. at Adelaide Perry Gallery. The Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing continues until March 24.
Adelaide Perry Gallery
27 February - 24 March
Cnr College Street, Hennessy St, Croydon NSW 2132
www.plc.nsw.edu.au
Album Artwork for Who's This? 'Can you believe it?' EP
Becc Orszag has collaborated with photographer Briannagh O'Loughlin for Melbourne band Who's This? new EP 'Can you believe it'. All album artwork and design is by Becc Orszag.
INTERVIEW: In Conversation with Becc Ország
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.
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Review: 'Inaugural' at Nicholas Projects
by Sam Leach
via theSubmachine
The Romans practiced Augury by observing the flight of birds. When the omens were good, the battle was begun, or perhaps the new bath-house was opened. Prediction is a fun game. I spent many years working as a forecaster for a government department so I developed a very modest skill in recognising and interpreting omens. James Little and Ben Aitken have obviously been craning their necks in recent months as they prepared Melbourne’s newest ARI space, Nicholas Projects. Their first show is called Inaugural.
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EXHIBITION: 'Inaugural' at Nicholas Projects
NICHOLAS PROJECTS PRESENTS:
INAUGURAL | NICHOLAS PROJECTS | MELBOURNE
6 NOVEMBER - 6 DECEMBER 2015
New Melbourne gallery Nicholas Projects presents its first ever exhibition 'Inaugural' with works by Natasha Bieniek, Heath Franco, Robert Hague, Tristan Jalleh and Becc Orszag to be opened by Sam Leach 6pm Friday November 6th.
Read MoreIncinerator Art Award - Art for Social Change 2015
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