In this duo exhibition, the ordinary meets the fantastical. Traditional landscape, still life, and portraiture are reimagined into new subjective realities, inspiring feelings of euphoria
They demonstrate an interest in the cultural texts which surround us, and engage with appropriation and questions of authenticity. In both cases, cultural or textual material has been divorced from its original context and given a new meaning.
What was once free and unbound, pleasant and tactile, is now restrained within a languid prison of ambiguity with only faint remnants of what it once was.
Cooper Cole joins the gallery migration process as he reveals his new space on Dupont and Dufferin, with Road to Ruin, a large group show, with a heavy infiltration of American artists.
Naturally, there is no common theme among the artists except the material. However, even the material has been used so diversely by the artists that ‘ceramics’ would not be the first words to appear in describing them.
There is no substantial contextual relationship between the paintings in this exhibition, as viewers are called to appreciate these interesting, yet disparate artworks based on their own singular merits.
Art can be a great way to inform people about public health issues. Mindset at Artscape Youngplace is a juried photography exhibition about mental health.
In a twilight, dream-state, all is permitted, the rules having been unbuttoned and loosed. In Pye’s world, the imagination is boundless and surreal – quite beyond the real, as the word surreal suggests.