July 14 – August 7, 2011
Opening: July 14, 6 – 9 Artist in attendance
Thompson Landry Gallery
The Distillery District
55 Mill Street, Building 5, #102
& The Cooperage Building #32
Toronto, Ontario, M5A 3C4
Tel: 416-364-4955
E-mail:info@thompsonlandry.com
www.thompsonlandry.com
Hours: Tues – Sat 11-6, Sun 12-5
This sensational new solo exhibition displayes 30 remarkable new works by Quebecois artist Étienne Gélinas. Étienne Gélinas’ pieces combine codes such as mechanical plans and clothing patterns to form a detailed backdrop, with splashes of spontaneous paint drippings. Taking mundane images and arranging them into something astonishingly beautiful, he creates a space where the opposing visual codes of the scientific and the pictorial exist in harmony with one another. His work exudes a vividly mesmerizing effect, created by his unique contrast between calculation and impulse. In his latest series, Gélinas’ signature artistic style, a blend of geometrical, scientific and numerical concepts, fused with an aesthetic flare, has been pushed to stunning new levels.