2009 Exhibition: Inside | John Bokor

  • John Bokor, Interior with Television, 2009
  • John Bokor, Busy Kitchen, 2009
  • John Bokor, Coffee Table , 2008
  • John Bokor, Summer Interior , 2009
  • John Bokor, Bathroom Reflections, 2008
  • John Bokor, Fatigue, 2009
  • John Bokor, Fridge and Orange Chair, 2008
  • John Bokor, Breakfast Still Life, 2008
  • John Bokor, Bulli Fruit and Veg, 2008
  • John Bokor, Studio, 2008
  • John Bokor, The Fruit Bowl, 2008
  • John Bokor, Pencils and Comic Book, 2009
  • John Bokor, Afternoon Interior, 2008
  • John Bokor, John in the studio, 2009

2009 Exhibition: Inside
30 June - 25 July 2009

Inside 2009, the first body of paintings conceived since his move from inner-western Sydney to the old coal mining township of Bulli, John Bokor has created paintings more densely worked in subject matter and in palette, moodier.

It is a curious shift given the nineteenth century township of tree lined timber cottages is by comparison spacious in scale yet Bokor surveys with a visual interrogation that works t intensify every nuance of his new environment stretching from the Illawara Escarpment to the Pacific Ocean.

Fleeting impressions of familiar still life objects - bottles, chairs and books, jostle for space with organic matter from the outside world - birds, cliffs and water. In past paintings trees punctuated a cityscape, they now dominate a landscape. Signature compression of Bokor’s mark making,that once reflected urban static, is now at work vigorously conveying the landscape of his studio and its windows where light feeds in and colour triumphs over subject matter.

But while the geographical shift is catalyst for even more charged emotional currents pulsing on moody surfaces, it also affords Bokor a chance for his frenetic Expressionist brush strokes to play rough with variations in perspective. Two and three dimensional picture planes topple into the viewer’s space while wonky cropping and angles of perspective hint at an impressionist interpretation of a world that has its source in the nineteenth century. It is perhaps the most fitting acknowledgement to this precocious painter’s Bulli environs.

Courtney Kidd, 2009