Jack Rogers + Jonathan McBurnie: You Worry Me

Overview

There’s legitimate cause for concern at Jack Rogers and Jonathan McBurnie’s exhibition YOU WORRY ME. Why? Because it’s messy, confusing, a little creepy, sometimes insulting, and a showcase of staggering artistic genius.

With the help of some ink, paint and mighty canvases, both artists have created pieces of Daniel Johnston-esque wackiness, with fine-line driven, eclectic expression. You won’t find any conservative art school sketchings at this Hold Artspace curated exhibition, rather pieces that will challenge you to take a chux to their noggins.

On one hand, Sydney-based artist Jonathan McBurnie showcases the aggression, trauma, and egos that alter and adhere to no boundaries, through fine-lined, and mathematical sketchings - his work is just as trigonometry heavy in angles as it is terrifying. Rogers, as both contrast and counterpart, is softer, and liberal in curves, his art closer to creative cartoons, than textbook scribblings.

McBurnie provides the faultless, and Rogers showcases the aesthetics that lie in flaws. Their artistic marriage in YOU WORRY ME gives a whole new meaning to juxtaposition – both exhibit the same degree of talent, in strikingly different strains of WTF.