September 20 – October 14, 2012
Opening: Saturday, September 22, 2 – 4 p.m.
DAVID KAYE GALLERY
1092 Queen Street West
(entrance on Dovercourt)
Toronto, ON M6J 1H9
T: 416.532.9075
E: info@davidkayegallery.com
www.davidkayegallery.com
Hours: Wed – Fri 11 – 6, Sat – Sun 11 – 5 p.m
Please join me, from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., on Saturday, September 22nd to meet textile artist MARGARET BALLANTYNE and to preview her new exhibition Landscape Variations.
MARGARET speaks of her practice, “Landscape in the pattern of the woven cloth has been my focus for many years. Most recently the exploration is done by painting geometric shapes on two landscape grounds, then slitting the canvas and weaving them into a single whole. These painterly surfaces are combined by the craft of weaving. As these images are woven together the pattern and colour juxtapose foreground and background. Pure colour is overlaid with transparent wash and interference colours. The brilliance of each woven piece remains essentially a subtle arrangement of the painted surface on woven canvas. These bold designs are then rewoven into a theoretical position on the relationship of art, design and the craft of weaving.”