Adrick Lui

@adrickisdoingart

Adrick's body of work is an intense investigation into figuration, driven by its potential to narrate and tell stories. Scavenging the leftover treasures of past figurative painting, Adrick draws on motifs, found ideas and visual languages. Spanning the entirety of art history, from the Italian Renaissance to German Expressionism, Adrick opens up new possibilities of painting, figuration, and interpretations of human drama. Adrick’s paintings are little stories told in grand scale with figures and scenes caught from a wide pool of images, from rigorous observation of real life to whimsical reimagining's of photos and of the mind. His exaggerated, off-kilter and awkwardly staged pictures evoke themes of embarrassment, tension, and a passionate interest in Human emotion and melodrama, not without a dash of humour and irony. Adrick's interest in oil painting owes a great debt to artists with bold painting styles and often bolder personalities such as Rembrandt, Degas, Kitaj and Kippenberger, and his approach to painting creates binaries in his visual language which offers more questions than answers. His interest in the differences of painting results in a multifaceted body-of-work that exists outside fixed pictorial spaces, definitions, and temporal contexts.

View the work: Building 5 Upper Mezzanine, Ground Floor Gallery