Lothar Götz | Jonathan Parsons | DJ Simpson | Neil Zakiewicz
Curated by Neil Zakiewicz

The painters in Mechanical Abstract utilise mechanical means to control the chaotic and irregular flow emanating from a brush or can by shielding off areas, or the line of a pencil is guided by a straight-edge. In this way all the work emphasises the physical process of applying a medium to a support. The temporal aspect of the act of creation is therefore the primary subject matter of these works. The medium is celebrated, but this is done in a restrained, measured, and determined way. There is, overall, an abstinence from the grand gestures associated with abstraction.