Ian's art show is really square
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The Advertiser, 1973

Ian Chandler's one-man show at Ray Hughes' Gallery is truly a contemporary exhibition for the modern age.

His paintings are anything by conventional. The shapes are large octagonal, sextagonal and geometric.

The geometric theme is carried into the content of the paintings - cones, triangles, rectangles and solid circles in metallic grey seem to be thrown our of their background and falling in space.

Solid metallic pipes intertwine in torturous wriggling movement.

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Chandler makes great use of grey and black to create these metallic illusions which highlight his vivid use of basic colors.

His paintings could be quite cold and unemotional without the color - brilliant blues and purples; the vegetable colors of yellow, green and brown; warm variations of red and a rainbow of intense color bring life to his paintings.

Some of the colored squares and rectangles are so poised in space you feel you could reach out and lift them off the paintings.

His brilliant control of perspective give the illusion of suspension of time and space.

Ian Chandler was born in Wagga, NSW and studied at the School of Arts, Adelaide.

His exhibitions include a one-man show at the Bonython Gallery in Sydney and the "Young International - Japanese Cultural Forum" in Tokyo.