"Unedit My Heart" blog
monday, november 29, 2010
Driving Art Up the Wall: Jeff Harrison
This past week, I've gone to a few fun shows that have artists working intensively with walls. All three are recommended for a drop by. For his exhibition at Parts Gallery, pictured above, Jeff Harrison takes his characteristically crazy-busy canvas style and extends it onto screenprints on newsprint, which paper the walls. Extra prints were handed out for free at the opening, and Parts tells me they still have a few on hand if you'd like. My favourite work in the show was was a work that spelled out "GRAVY," a word which seemed to sum up, for me, the enjoyable excess that characterizes Harrison's best work.
Leah Sandals is a freelance arts writer for the National Post, Globe and Mail and Canadian Art.
(post abbreviated by PG)
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
PUNCHY ALL THE TIME - update
We finished installing Jeffrey Harrison's show which opens tomorrow.
The walls are covered with hand-pulled one of a kind screenprints done on newsprint and the canvas paintings are hung over that.
It all makes for a truly ebullient exhibition.
SPOILER: Along with fruit punch, Jeff will be giving away some screen prints at the opener Thursday November 18.
after that they will be available for ten bucks.
The walls are covered with hand-pulled one of a kind screenprints done on newsprint and the canvas paintings are hung over that.
It all makes for a truly ebullient exhibition.
SPOILER: Along with fruit punch, Jeff will be giving away some screen prints at the opener Thursday November 18.
after that they will be available for ten bucks.
Monday, November 8, 2010
JEFFREY HARRISON
PUNCHY ALL THE TIME
November 11 - December 5
Some images of new work by Jeffrey Harrison.
The artist will transform the front gallery for the next three weeks.
I will post more pictures once the show is up.
"M" master
detail - "M" master
chito's pizza
detail-chito's pizza
studio view - dbl geezil
garden view - lean clean and bluesy
installing the work @ Parts Gallery
November 11 - December 5
Some images of new work by Jeffrey Harrison.
The artist will transform the front gallery for the next three weeks.
I will post more pictures once the show is up.
"M" master
detail - "M" master
chito's pizza
detail-chito's pizza
studio view - dbl geezil
garden view - lean clean and bluesy
installing the work @ Parts Gallery
Sunday, November 7, 2010
ART TORONTO 2010
Thanks to all who helped out and supported our inaugural year at Toronto's International art fair Art Toronto 2010.
It was a great success!
Here are some pictures from the 5 day event.
Calm before the storm.
not exactly a storm, but it was heartening to see a huge line up of art supporters everyday an hour before doors opened.
It was a great success!
Here are some pictures from the 5 day event.
Calm before the storm.
not exactly a storm, but it was heartening to see a huge line up of art supporters everyday an hour before doors opened.
at the opening night gala.
and she obliged me by standing with her painting for a photo op.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
IN THE NEWS - Judith Geher
Judith Geher .. wish
Reviewed by Matthew Purvis@ blogTO
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Judith Geher at Parts Gallery from October 14 - November 7
At the Parts Gallery in Leslieville, Judith Geher has a new set of paintings on display (also depicted in lead photo). The subtly textured portraits are done with acyclic on linen and oil on wood. Invoking static and strained moments, they play on density and rhythm to create frayed and discomforting images. Although they owe something, in a strictly figurative sense, to the glossy world of fashion and advertising, the sheen of that world is completely eroded, leaving a roughness that's marked out in harsh lines at the base of the image. These are then accented by a build up of bright and inviting colours. Her brush work is often a combination of lashing and imprinting, creating sometimes dangling details and at others jarring blocks of colour that decompose the forms.
Reviewed by Matthew Purvis@ blogTO
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Judith Geher at Parts Gallery from October 14 - November 7
At the Parts Gallery in Leslieville, Judith Geher has a new set of paintings on display (also depicted in lead photo). The subtly textured portraits are done with acyclic on linen and oil on wood. Invoking static and strained moments, they play on density and rhythm to create frayed and discomforting images. Although they owe something, in a strictly figurative sense, to the glossy world of fashion and advertising, the sheen of that world is completely eroded, leaving a roughness that's marked out in harsh lines at the base of the image. These are then accented by a build up of bright and inviting colours. Her brush work is often a combination of lashing and imprinting, creating sometimes dangling details and at others jarring blocks of colour that decompose the forms.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Judith Geher
October 14 - November 7
...wish.
JUDITH GEHER's latest body of work explores the quest for a personal identity in a world dominated by mediated images of "an idealized feminine aesthetic". Geher's contemporary figure paintings are charged with a seductive and boldly romantic quality "fraught with longing and desire" while maintaining a modestly winsome manner. This gesture could also be seen in her painterly process. While some areas are built up with mounds of colour and paint other parts are left bare to allow the natural background to show through.
...wish.
JUDITH GEHER's latest body of work explores the quest for a personal identity in a world dominated by mediated images of "an idealized feminine aesthetic". Geher's contemporary figure paintings are charged with a seductive and boldly romantic quality "fraught with longing and desire" while maintaining a modestly winsome manner. This gesture could also be seen in her painterly process. While some areas are built up with mounds of colour and paint other parts are left bare to allow the natural background to show through.
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