Keith Wood - Abstract encaustic painting
New Work- Showing April 6- 30, 2011
Keith Wood’s abstract encaustic paintings are of broad natural forms with evidence of the process and stages of development. Light is a key element it does not reflect from the surface but penetrates the many different wax layers. Wood’s work has serene energy; light radiates from within the work.
Kate Domina - While Bliss Was Sleeping
New Work- Showing Mar 2 - 26, 2011
Reception: Thursday Mar 3 7-10pm
Represented through adolescents, Domina threads dream-like narratives into each piece. She, sometimes timidly, often brashly, employs surreal metaphors to explore the inner struggles of surviving the flux between child and adult. The instincts, obsessions and fears that accompany coming of age are the focus of Domina's third solo exhibition
Stewart Jones - A French Perspective
New Work - Showing Dec 1 - 18, 2010
Reception: Thursday Dec 2 7-10pm
Jones continues his exploration of the urbanscape which surround us in a new series of paintings inspired by a recent revisit to France's southern region. From Paris down the western Autoroute through Tours, past Bordeaux and into Ste Bazeille, Hure & St Emilion then north again towards St-Foy-Au_Grand and Orleans with a final return to Paris.
The light in the south is famous in itself. With this light comes the shadows so prevalent in Jones' past work. With this new series A French Perspective Jones infuses his skewed angles, unique eye and strong compositions into representations of France's contemporary albeit historic, landscape.
Meredith Bingham
New Work - Showing November 2010
Meredith Bingham’s work springs from the intersection of the intuitive, the irrational and the accidental. She builds up and breaks down colour and form until it takes on meaning and feels complete. In her words, Meredith uses abstraction as a clear and simple way to express feelings that are impossible to articulate with language. As a result, that which is indefinable becomes the subject of her paintings.
Amanda White
New Work - Circles and Animal Skins - Showing November 2010
Amanda White is a Toronto artist whose work is always evolving and yet perpetually returning to the practice of drawing, painting and subjects from nature. In this new series of ink drawings, animal and plant textures and skins form circular piles. The images themselves are influenced stylistically by the tradition of botanical and zoological illustrations, but here the subjects are amorphous shapes.
Sara Caracristi - Showing Oct 1 - Oct 23, 2010
Sara Caracristi’s new series of paintings Watching Over explores the movement and rhythm of individuals and groups in crowded urban environments. With compositions marked by a detached voyeurism, Sara paints from an overhead perspective giving little information about the specific location and context in which her subjects exist. Her methods transform individuals into elements of form and colour, realizing them as parts of larger patterns. At times these compositions verge on the abstract however upon closer inspection, the relationships and behaviors of the individual subjects begin to emerge.
Laurie De Camillis - Showing Oct 1 - Oct 23, 2010
In conjunction with a feature article titled 'Artist to Collect' in Arabella Magazine, Gallery 129 is pleased to present a collection of works by gallery artist Laurie De Camillis. This exhibition will feature her signature inmages of the rural Ontario landscape as well as recent paintings from the escarpment area.
Rob Croxford - Showing Sept 1 - 25, 2010
In Rob Croxford’s new series of works he explores the aesthetics of the Arcade game, and in particular pinball machines. Croxford combines his wordplay with the spectacle of flashing lights, sounds and images of extraordinary worlds that were so popular in the Arcade games of 1950’s – 1970’s.
Stewart Jones - Showing Sept 1 -25, 2010
Stewart Jones paints the city. His subjects are the often overlooked, seemingly unimportant places and moments in his urban environment. Jones’ unique compositions -the unexpected angles and perspectives, the shadows and light between buildings- are described with a passionate and confident touch, making these spaces instantly familiar, and yet new exciting all at once.
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Ila Kellerman - Showing July 1 - 31
The onset of summer commands its own visual vocabulary. Our Ontario landscape provides a palette and iconography that reaffirms afternoons on the dock and summons new memories of spruce, sun, fish and water. In her new series Trout on the Dock, Ila Kellermann celebrates the best of the season. Her petroglyph influences anchor her compositions while layers of paint and incised lines compel us to join in the postcard we call summer.
Neil Young - Showing June 2 - 26
In Neil Young’s recent body of work, his graphic compositions, vibrant colors and subtle textures are combined to create abstracted forms resembling urban landscapes, nature and elements of the machine.
Mirana Zuger - Showing May 5 - 29
In her newest series of paintings, Zuger refers to her childhood drawings as source material for the imagery interposed into the abstract fields and biomorphic forms on her canvases. The cartoon-like drawn images subtly allude to their source, but are reinterpreted by a mature awareness of contemporary painting strategies.
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Marija Barac Jandric - The Shape of Memory
Showing April 7 - May 1
Opening Reception Sat. April 10 1-4pm
Marija Barac Jandric’s work comes from observing the natural world. In this new series of oil paintings she examines the relationship between memory and images of nature.
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Kate Domina - The Day They Blew Away
Showing March 3 - 27
In her newest series of oil paintings, Kate Domina's unique whimsical style and child-like subjects find a narrative to call home, as Illustrations for a children's book titled "The Day They Blew Away".
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Laurie De Camillis - Winter Landscapes
Showing Feb 3 - 27
New works by gallery artist Laurie De Camillis. This winter De Camillis continues to explore the rural Ontario landscape with a fresh series of paintings from the escarpment area.
Anne-Laure Djaballah - New Spaces
Showing Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
With thread, wool, wood, wire and paint, Anne-Laure continues to explore the line between 2D and 3D; how we understand the picture plane as either flat or illusionistic, and its relationship to the surrounding space.
Her process is one of layering, uncovering, simplifying, culling, and fragmenting visual elements, discovering patterns and connections, and reframing them in a new context, in the hopes that by being attentive to the apparently trivial, new possibilities can be envisioned - miracles can be found in the mundane.
Matt Tarini - In Transit
Showing - Nov 4 - 28
Reception - Saturday Nov 7th 1-4pm
Matt is a realist painter and his In Transit work unerringly depicts the technological seclusion of modern urban life. His large-scale narrative paintings explore the urban condition — particularly our increasing disconnect with nature, and the erosion of community and beauty in the modern world. These issues inspire him to transcribe our contemporary society onto canvas in a clear-sighted and thought-provoking way.
Ben Darrah - Lost & Found
Showing - Nov 4 - 28
In Lost & Found Darrah uses orphaned imagery of flora and fauna (and the tools we use to engage with our environment) in combination with painted abstract grounds to suggest narratives about identity, environment and sense of place. Darrah has always been concerned with the interplay of colour and mark-making, but he is particularly focusing in Lost & Found on subtle, and not-so-subtle, colour combinations that are both evocative and beautiful.
Meredith Bingham -The Earnest Circle
Showing - Oct 1 - 24
The Earnest Circle is an exhibition of paintings about the inherent human desire for creation and invention, passion and feeling, deconstruction and renewal. The circle encompasses all these things; it is earnest in it's pursuit of perfection.
Stewart Jones - Places and Spaces
Showing - Sept 3 - 26
Places and Spaces is an exhibition of recent work, Jones continue to paint his surroundings.
" I only paint places that I’ve been and taken something from. I could paint a space for years and still be fascinated with it, in its place and how its surroundings really shape its being. I am interested, continually, in what happens in shadows and how the cityscapes cut the sky, creating geometric shapes, which become a focal point to my work, compositionally."
Little Works
Showing - July 2 - 25
In July Gallery at 129 Ossington will exhibit Little Works. Each gallery artist will exhibit a collection of small pieces celebrating their creative, diverse and dynamic expression in these aesthetic gems.
Kate Domina - All my Friends are Imaginary
Showing - June 3 - 27
All my Friends are Imaginary is a celebration of innocence and curiosity. Kate Domina incorporates classical representational painting with surreal and whimsical narratives. Her latest series is a psychoanalytical exploration of adolescence. She believes there is no better vehicle to understanding human imagination and curiosity than through the face and demeanour of the young.
Link to recent interview:
http://thingsofdesire.ca/2009/05/28/all-my-friends-are-imaginary/#more-1758
Neil Young - Nature and the City Abstracts
Showing - June 3 - 27
Nature and the City Abstracts is an exhibition of mixed media works by Neil Young. In this series, Neil is exploring harmonious and conflicting relationships found in the organic and manmade world.
Mirana Zuger - Clockwork Orange
Showing - May 9 - 30
Reception - Saturday, May 9 1-4pm
For the past few years, Mirana Zuger has been infusing her paintings with markings and gestures nascent from memory and personal experiences. More recently, she has interrupted her abstract compositions with drawing and text pulled from her childhood drawings. The exhibition, Clockwork Orange, sets up the viewer for a stage of events past and present, articulating the thoughts and experiences of the artist.
Marija Barac Jandric - Landscape Conversations
Showing - May 9 - 30
Reception - Saturday, May 9 1-4pm
Marija Barac Jandric investigates how a painted image of a landscape can act as a metaphor for an individual existence. She looks to nature for answers about the world and our place in it. Light, atmosphere and space are important elements in Marija’s paintings, lending symbolism, and an emotional undercurrent to the work. She uses layers of juicy thick paint creating a tactile, almost sculptural surface, with a strong sense of colour and movement.
Rob Croxford – Wisdom from A-Z
Showing - April 1 - 25
Reception - Thursday, April 2 7-10pm
Wisdom from A-Z is an exhibition of new work by Rob Croxford. This exhibition is an exercise in whimsy. Each of brightly coloured – vintage themed canvases represents a letter of the alphabet. For example, the “B” canvas depicts a Bowling Ball and a quote from George Ball. The “C” canvas depicts a Croc Shoe and a quote from CoCo Chanel!
Stephen Noble - Urban Nocturnes
Showing - April 1 - 25
Reception - Thursday, April 2 7-10pm
Urban Nocturnes is an exhibition of new oil paintings by Toronto artist Stephen Noble. They focus on urban nightscapes -- a new subject for Noble, whose past work mainly featured rural landscapes. Unlike the calm and solitude of this earlier work, we now feel the spirit and bustle of the city. Noble captures this by painting “plein air” studies, which become the source for the finished piece.
Amanda White - Flora and Fauna
In this new series of ink drawings, animal and plant forms are stacked, tangled, and swarm together into piles of nature. The images themselves are influenced stylistically by the tradition of botanical and zoological illustrations, but here the subjects are fictional tales of flora and fauna. These odd creatures are presented as something between strange specimens and narratives of childhood nostalgia, an entire world for the viewer to encounter and explore.
Laurie De Camillis – Winter’s End
Laurie De Camillis continues to explore Ontario landscapes in this series titled Winter’s End. The Light and Subtlety of colour over the fields and fences is striking but it is ultimately the barns that compel her.