DrAlex Gawronski
Lecturer, Visual Arts
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Lecturer, Visual ArtsFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Research projects & supervision summary
Project Opportunities
Title: Contemporary art
Summary of opportunity:
Dr Alex Gawronski is a contemporary artist working across multiple media as well as a writer and independent gallerist. He has a particular interest in the implications of galleries and museums as cultural sites of spatial and socio-political contestation. Gawronski’s PhD, No New Utopia: The Crisis of Art as Critique Under Globalisation was awarded by the University of Sydney in 2006. It considered the challenges posed by the multifarious commercialising trends, vastly accelerated by global neoliberalism, to contemporary art as a form of critical practice. Gawronski has exhibited widely nationally and internationally.
Opportunity synopsis:
Research interests
- Contemporary art
- Modern art
- Institutional Critique
- Museum histories
- Art and architecture
- Art and political economy
- Art and Marxist legacies
----------Current Research Projects----------
Stupid As
Gertrude Contemporary, Preston South, Melbourne, VIC
20 April - 2 June, 2024
https://gertrude.org.au/exhibition/stupid-as-curated-by-alex-gawronski
Forms of Censorship
The Cross Art Project, Kings Cross, Sydney, NSW
11 May - 8 June, 2024
https://www.crossart.com.au/
RESEARCH PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION"The World is Your Studio": Identifying a Correlation Between the Idea of Minimalism in Art and Quantum Mutual Information
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONAwkward Exchange: Painting as Constellation
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONEkphrasis // Ekphrasis The Early Modernism of Art, Post-Internet
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONFugitive Desires and Ethical Dilemmas: Understanding Australian Artist-Run Initiatives as Quasi-Institutions through Peer-ing
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONIn/Out & Against the System: Critical Art, Institutional Critique and Art as Intervention
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONRecessional Aesthetics
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONSilence and Disaster
- RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISIONThe Art of Changing the Art World: An Investigation into Contemporary Institutional Critique through Craft-Based, Political Art