Courtesy: the artist and Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland.

Brendan McGorry presents Finished Unfinished, a series of conspicuously and deliberately unfinished works. Building upon his exploration of historical art, McGorry references the famed unfinished works by the Old Masters. Through either abandonment or happenstance, artists have left paintings unfinished. By doing so, they have revealed their artistic process and fed into an age-old fascination with the inner workings of the artist’s studio. Notable unfinished works that have influenced McGorry include Leonardo da Vinci’s La Scapigliata, with its highly refined features of a young woman’s face surrounded by the scratchy impressions of where her hair is yet to be filled out, and Rembrandt’s The Jewish Bride, a study of light and form comprising entirely of expert cross-hatching.

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