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Mar 6 1992 to Mar 27 1992
Gabriel’s interest in early American Industrial buildings stems in part from the influence these structures had on the Modernist Esthetics used in European architecture. Monumental silos, grain elevators, and factories stand in ruin. For...
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Jan 10 1992 to Feb 2 1992
Marguerite is an exhibition that is a story of history and memory, landscape, struggle, and permission, denial and imagination.
Where there is promise, there is strength.
The exhibition is also and again the artist’s own story.
I am...
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Dec 3 1991 to Dec 21 1991
Mary Balomenos is an anglophone, second-generation Greek Canadian who has spent the last ten years developing her painting in Paris, France. This complex cultural situation manifests itself not only physically in her crowded studio filled...
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Oct 31 1991 to Nov 23 1991
The works of Peter Gnass are large assertive sculptural installations which evoke at first a feeling of mystery. This mystery is the invisible thread connecting the individual objects and various works, and it is that other dimension...
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Oct 11 1991 to Oct 26 1991
Attention
Painting that uses only a few colours, simple forms, repetitive structures, uncomplicated premises –painting such as Adrian Gollner’s work –is painting of reduced means. With a decrease in variety of visual information, the...
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Sep 20 1991 to Oct 5 1991
agency noun. 1. Active operation; action; power.
2. A mode of action; means; instrumentality; action personified.
Imagine the free agency of a contemporary painter in Canada.
Ensconced in his studio, John Armstrong speculates on modern...
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Aug 27 1991 to Sep 15 1991
The necessity of work
In the autumn of 1990 in a group show at Gallery 101, Germaine Koh exhibited some compelling abstract paintings from a series called ESTABLISHING. Concerned with investigating the relation of the processes of drawing...
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Aug 9 1991 to Aug 25 1991
Reginald Hamilton’s painting faces into the past, engaging with history, art history, and memory. Equally assertively it indexes present experience as painting of modern life. As paradoxical as this may seem, it is because of this...
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Jul 19 1991 to Aug 4 1991
PAINTINGS: DIMITAR NESHEV AND SVETOSLAV TZEKOV
Painting is political
The communist-direct art education which Dimitar Neshev and Svetoslav (Jack) Tzekov received in Bulgaria taught them that painting is always political. Neshev and Tzekov...
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Jun 28 1991 to Jul 14 1991
"My father immigrated to Canada from Glasgow, Scotland. He was fifteen years old when they settled in northern Alberta in a place called Clandonald. One of my earliest memories was of him coming home with an armful of birch saplings. They...
