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Taree Mackenzie was born in 1980 in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
Taree Mackenzie’s visually intriguing perceptual experiences contain the air of early modernist films and the simplicity of physics experiments. Mixing coloured lights like a painter mixes pigment, she creates quasi-scientific experiments that render grounded alchemical results. She says of her practice that she aims to “inspire a sense of wonder and surprise by prompting the viewer out of their habitual way of looking.” Alongside Op Art, Mackenzie’s work is significantly indebted to 1960’s American minimalism. This includes the Light and Space movement from the West Coast, whose legacy is most apparent in her site-specific installations that explore the basic principles of CMY colour mixing, recalling the coloured ‘atmospheres’ of James Turrell and Doug Wheeler. However, if the West Coast version of minimalism leaned towards the spiritual and transcendental, then Mackenzie’s attitude is perhaps more in tune with the functionality of East Coast minimalism and its dedication to calling attention to the unadorned materiality of an artwork.
Taree Mackenzie, Pepper’s ghost, triangles, cyan and red, 2018,
Acrylic, MDF, reflective tint, LED’s, mirror ball motor, paint, wood, vinyl, Light box elements: 200 x 120 x 20 cm, Reflective screen: 200 x 120 x 7 cm, Hanging sculpture: 140 x 87 cm, Brackets: 120 x 120 cm
Cylinder Live Feed for the Un Magazine 6.1 launch, Death Be Kind, Melbourne
2011
‘Slinky Live Feed’, West Space, Melbourne
2010
‘New Video work’, M16 Artspace, Canberra INIUN, Rearview Gallery, Melbourne
2009
‘Turntable Work’, TCB art Inc., Melbourne Abstract Video Work, M16 Artspace, Canberra Group Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
‘one (&) another’, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
2019
‘Let there be light’, Justin House Museum, Melbourne
2017
‘Prime Movers’, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne Redlands- Konica Minolta Art Prize, National Art School Gallery, Sydney
2016
‘Set in Motion’, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand Dancing Umbrellas, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
2015
‘Kaleidorama’, Stills Gallery, Sydney
2014
‘NEW14’, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2013
‘Melbourne Now’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne History is our Audience, West Space, Melbourne ExURBAN SCREENS, Frankston Arts Center, Melbourne Third/Fourth: Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennal, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne FX, Center for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2012
‘Ménage à Trois’, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2011
The First & Final Y3K Second (third) Inaugural Melbourne Biennal of International Arts, Y3K Gallery, Melbourne
2009
‘Achromatism – recent Video Works from the ACT’, Queensland Center for Photography, Brisbane
(close)White Light Shadows: Circles, Squares, Triangles, Installation view, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2014. Originally commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art for NEW14Taree Mackenzie, Untitled, Installation view, West Space, Melbourne, 2011.Taree Mackenzie, Cylinder Live Feed, 2012, Acrylic cylinder, motor and speed controller, projectors, tripods, turntable, video cameras, vinyl, Cylinder: 25 cm diameter x 50 cm (H) Turntable: 44 cm (W) x 34 cm (L) x 4 cm (H) 2 x Cameras with tripodsTaree Mackenzie, Glow, 2013, Venetian blinds, tinted, transparent acrylic, Custom madeTaree Mackenzie, Line Shadows, 2014, Aluminium, balsa wood, cardboard, dedolights and projection attachments, foam core, gels, light stand, milk crates, motor and speed controller, plasterboard, rear projection screen, turntable, wood, Wall: 210 cm (W) x 240 cm (H) (variable) Screen: 45cm (W) x 34 cm (H), Kinetic sculpture: 45 cm (W) x 170 cm (H) x 45 cm (L) Dedo lights and stand: height: 150 cm (H) x 55 cm (W) x 55 cm (L)Taree Mackenzie, Ping Pong Balls on Cyan, Magenta and Yellow Mirrors, 2016, HD Video, Video 1: Ping Pong Balls on Magenta mirror, 2 minutes, 48 seconds; Video 2: Ping Pong Balls on Yellow mirror, 2 minutes, 4 seconds; Video 3: Ping Pong Balls on Cyan mirror: 2 minutes, 9 seconds, Ed. 6/10Taree Mackenzie, Pepper’s ghost, triangles, cyan and red, 2018,
Acrylic, MDF, reflective tint, LED’s, mirror ball motor, paint, wood, vinyl, Light box elements: 200 x 120 x 20 cm, Reflective screen: 200 x 120 x 7 cm, Hanging sculpture: 140 x 87 cm, Brackets: 120 x 120 cmTaree Mackenzie, Pepper’s ghost, double triangles, red and yellow, 2018, Acrylic, foam core, reflective tint, LED’s, mirror ball motor, paint, wood, vinyl, Light box elements: 200 x 120 x 20 cm , Reflective screen: 200 x 120 x 7 cm, Hanging sculpture: 140 x 87 x 87 cm , Brackets: 120 x 120 cmTaree Mackenzie, Pepper’s ghost, diamonds, green and magenta, 2018, Acrylic, MDF, reflective tint, LED’s, mirror ball motor, paint, wood, vinyl, Light box elements: 200 x 120 x 20 cm, Reflective screen: 200 x 120 x 7 cm, Hanging sculpture: 150 x 75 x 54 cm, Brackets: 120 x 120 cmTaree Mackenzie, Pepper’s ghost, circles, blue and red, 2018, Acrylic, MDF, reflective tint, LED’s, mirror ball motor, paint, wood, vinyl, Light box elements: 200 x 120 x 20 cm , Reflective screen: 200 x 120 x 7 cm, Hanging sculpture: 150 x 75 x 75 cm , Brackets: 120 x 120 cmTaree Mackenzie, Pepper’s ghost, wind turners, blue and yellow, 2018, Acrylic, foam core, threaded rod, reflective tint, LED’s, mirror ball motor, paint, wood, vinyl, Light box elements: 200 x 120 x 20 cm , Reflective screen: 200 x 120 x 7 cm, Hanging sculpture: 150 x 80 cm, Brackets: 120 x 120 cmTaree Mackenzie, Installation view, Neon Parc Brunswick, 2018
