Contending Spaces, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in.
August 6 – 2 0, 2 0 1 1
Opening: Saturday, August 6, 2 – 4pm
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Toronto, Ontario M5T 1G5
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The Bau-Xi Galler y in Toronto is pleased to be exhibiting the new work of established Canadian painter, John Barkley, in a solo-exhibition entitled Contending Spaces . This is Barkley’s first exhibition with the Bau-Xi Gallery. Barkley’s paintings explore humanity’s relationship to nature and his existential concerns while experimenting with paint application.
As a boy, John Barkley’s father, an ar tist as well, encouraged him to draw and paint, and eventually took him to paint on sojourns into the country. As a young man, he returned to Ottawa to study. In addition to painting, he is also a dedicated scholar, whose studies and interests factor significantly in his ar t work. His degrees include a Master of Ar ts in Religion, from Carleton University (2001); a Bachelor of Fine Ar ts, Visual Ar t, Magna Cum Laude, Universityof Ottawa (1996); Bachelor of Ar ts, Honours, Psychology, from Carleton University (1989); and a Bachelor of Arts, Law and Psychology, Carleton University. In 2000, he wrote a Master’s thesis which created a new hermeneutic of art, based upon the work of Jung, Tillich, and Heidegger, it was subsequently applied to the work of Roland Poulin.
John Barkley is an experimental painter living in Chelsea, Quebec. Barkley has been pursuing a professional ar tistic practice since 1996. In the last seven years he has been able to work in his studio, in Wakefield Quebec, as a full time ar tist. Barkley’s works have been exhibited extensively and have been reviewed in LeDroit, The Ottawa Citizen, and The Globe and Mail. His paintings are par t of numerous private and corporate collections