Pentimenti #8. Lilly, acrylic, 24 x 24 inches
May 18 – June 10, 2012
Opening: Saturday, May 19, 3 – 6 p.m.
FRAN HILL GALLERY
285 Rushton Road
Toronto, ON, M6C 2X5
Tel: 416.363.1333
E: franhillgallery@bellnet.ca
Hours: Fri–Sun 11–6 p.m or by appointment
“The drawings, paintings and sculptures in the show are “drawn from” works of two series of paintings both dealing with fragmented surfaces, an evolving flux.
In the Reflection Series, a smooth surface of the reflected is fractured by another directional force. Shapes and colour flow together and move apart. The analogy speaks to the demands that life makes for time reflecting what you choose to attend to and what to ignore. Concentration stabilizes and clarifies the state of flux of being pulled in different directions.
Pentimenti paintings come from a series based the sub-surface layers, known as pentimento. The marks within the paintings carry the trace of the history of the artist’s search for the image. The result is an ambiguity between the surface and the depths, ground and background, between the seen and the unseen and provides the imagination with the space to wander, and to wonder. With each layer of pentimenti, the remains, show the progression of time, movement and mark the changes.
The Sculptures are mainly figuration, working with shape and pose to evoke an emotion. Surface treatment is more impressionistic than representative. Although the figure is not the subject matter, it still exerts a continuing influence.” Wayne Moore, May, 2012