Artists and Artwork
Curated Artworks
Jack Bush
“Bitter Pink Plus”, painted in February 1968, is part of his “Fringe” series where a large dominant field of colour is bordered by shorter sections of many different colours positioned perpendicular to the edge. This creates a composition that allows for a spacial feel contrasted with a charge of contrasting, saturated colours. Bush frequently spoke of his colour bars as musical, and though the colours are dissimilar in “Bitter Pink Plus” they are related and combine in optical harmony.
Joyce Wieland
In the Fall of 1962 Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow moved from Toronto to NYC where she became actively involved in the underground filmmaking and Pop-Art community. Living in a loft at 191 Greenwich Street amongst the excitement of the Battery neighbourhood of Manhattan, Wieland absorbed the excitement of the city into her lively paintings.
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Michael Snow
Painted when Snow was still living with his parents in Rosedale, “Leaving Blackness” demonstrates Snow’s interest in the gesture and action of the Abstract Expressionists. Jazz-like in its rhythms and movements, he has created a painting of his parents living room with the furniture alive, electric in colour and evolving in space.
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Etienne Zack
The luminous new paintings that Zack has created are super saturated in light and rich in colour. Based on photographs taken in abandoned houses near his home, the new paintings show the detritus of life and combine his meticulous notes relating to each interior.
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Jason McLean
Jason McLean’s drawings are idiosyncratic visual records of his experiences, observations and perceptions. Acting as rhizomatic diaries that pictorially represent his relationship with local environments, his works are often described as mental maps, where samplings of his daily observations are mashed-up into poignant combinations.
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Jonathan Forrest
For the past 40 years, Jonathan Forrest has devoted himself to creating abstract paintings that are open, thin, clear and flat, self-referential with no illusions to space or subject. Forrest's newest abstracts are a celebration of line - bending, nudging, zigging and zagging line. Combined with glorious colour, these new paintings explore space, density and structure.
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Ron Bloore
Ronald Bloore, one of the founding members of the Regina Five, was best known for his subtle, monochromatic abstracts. Working predominantly in tones of white, Bloore renounced the use of colour and created intricate low-relief works inspired by the symbolism and architecture of early civilizations. This highly detailed, multi-toned work from 1983 is from his Rough / Stick Chasuble series.
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