Jordache Gage, Mindful Mirage, 2022. Synthetic polymer, polycotton canvas, 122 x 167cm. $6,000 – 8,000. Courtesy: the artist
LUKE POTKIN
Fair Director, The Other Art Fair, Australia
Gage’s work does a great job of creating duality, blending light and shade along with hard geometric lines in parts and soft expressive paintwork in others. The effect creates great depth to the piece. There is a seemingly moving central mass, a flow to the piece with more of the hard lines flowing from the top left into the softer, darker edges in the bottom right. It feels as though it has shot onto the canvas and exploded.
ASHLEIGH JONES
Curator, COMA, Chippendale, Sydney
Jordache Gage’s Mindful Mirage draws from many movements, such as Cubism, Futurism and Abstraction. Gage’s shape hurtles through space, splicing the air with sharp lines and inferno colours. The shape’s many edges trick and tease the light, as Cubism so often does. This work mingles manipulation methods ranging from soft gradients, solid blocks of colour and fluid brushstrokes with momentary swirls and splutters. Despite the many different elements, Gage has total control and the painting feels tight and thoroughly complete.