If the painting titles suggest a blunt literalness, the works themselves are open-ended and expansive. It’s all that we would expect from “the particle physicist of Canadian art.”
An exhibition by two contrasting, but in some ways complementary artists. Both paint very much in the present, with Peter Hoffer arching to nostalgia and Rachel MacFarlane coming off as futuristic
It is true that this city has been undergoing an unprecedented building boom in the last several years, certainly in the condo market and it brings new collectors into the art market too.