Island life, cyanotype on paper, 42″ x 52″
June 21 – July 29, 2012
Opening: Thursday, June 21, 6 – 9 p.m.
PARTS GALLERY
1150 Queen Street East
Toronto, ON M4M 1L2
T: 416.465.8500
E: info@partsgallery.ca
www.partsgallery.ca
Hours: Wed–Sat 12–6, Sun 12-5 p.m.
Parts Gallery is pleased to host the first solo show on Canadian soil by Casey Roberts. Join us for a reception with the artist present this Thursday June 21 from 6-9
In a recent review in the Globe and Mail, R.M. Vaughan writes, “Roberts creates paintings by combining cyanotype (a chemically treated paper that turns sky blue when exposed to light) and cyanotype that has been manipulated (with kitchen-sink tools such as bleach and baking soda) to create colours other than blue, plus collage and gouache. The effect is both soothing and eerie, like looking at the world through a bottle filled with oil. His subject matter, boreal landscapes, is no less quirky, despite the pedestrian origins. In a Roberts forest, blood drips from trees, and eyes, many pairs of eyes, peer out from black pits, hiding spots. Spectral human silhouettes patrol between the trees, sinister or just lost.With his loose compositions and occasional dips into the psychedelic, Roberts will remind viewers of whimsical National Film Board animations from the 1970s, the era of tie-dyed T-shirts and macramé wall hangings. But ultimately Roberts’s work is far more self-aware and decidedly not innocent.”
Roberts work has been shown at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art and also currently showing in the Elmhurst Art Museum in Chicago.