Lights Out, 2012, oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches
October 11 – November 3, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 11, 6 – 8 p.m.
Artist talk with curator and writer Peggy Gale, Saturday, October 20, 2 p.m.
NICOLAS METIVIER GALLERY
451 King Street West,
Toronto, M5V 1K4
T: 416.205.9000
www.metiviergallery.com
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10 – 6 p.m.
Nicholas Metivier Gallery is pleased to announce University and Spadina, an exhibition of new paintings by Joanne Tod. The exhibition will open on October 11 and will be on view through November 3 with a reception for the artist on Thursday, October 11 from 6– 8 p.m. This will be Tod’s second exhibition at the gallery.
Joanne Tod is renowned as one of Canada’s most accomplished realist painters. Her interest in this genre evolved from an early interest in Pop art and documentary photography. Working from her photographs of compelling interiors, people and objects, Tod finds a way to insert an element of social commentary and wit into every impeccably crafted painting.
The title of Tod’s new exhibition, University and Spadina, invokes the names of two wellknown Toronto streets. The implication of a fictitious intersection sets up a paradoxical comparison of two closely situated, but otherwise disparate landmarks in this city – 1 Spadina Crescent, the current home of the University of Toronto’s Visual Studies Department and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. The variance in their architectural style as well as function is highlighted in Tod’s ability to convey the particular moods that permeate these historic and still-evolving buildings.