Curated by artist Gregg Simpson, Geometric Expressionism celebrates the intuitive and personal aspects of works in the tradition of
        non-objective, hard-edge geometric painting. Since the public furore over the National Gallery's purchase of Barnett Newman's
       Voice of Fire in 1990, formalist art  has come under attack, perhaps because its appreciation requires an awareness of the roots of
       abstraction. The exhibition at the Gallery Alpha confronts these questions with a selection of work by artists who draw upon a variety
       of sources from indigenous art and pre-historic designs to futuristic patternings and illusionism.

        The roots of geometric expressionism (a term coined by contributing artist Jas. Felter) reach back to early abstractionists such as
        Wassily Kandinsky and Frank Kupka who pioneered improvisation with pure colours and shapes. Both artists also drew on their
        previous metaphysical knowledge and became transitional figures from Symbolism to abstraction,  painters who could provide a
        theoretical and philosophic structure to their abstractions.