October 12 – November 19, 2011
Opening: Friday, October 21, 7 – 10 pm
TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY
3148 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario M6P 2A1
(The Junction, Dundas at St. John’s Rd.)
T: 647.270.7903
E: sharlene@telephoneboothgallery.ca
www.telephoneboothgallery.ca
Hours: Tues by appt., Wed and Sat 11-6, Thurs and Fri 11-7
Julia Vandepolder’s recent paintings are an investigation of abandoned and collapsing urban and rural architecture. She explores the intricacies and details of these spaces, focusing on the remaining structures which are often extensively patterned through weathering and decay.
The rich surfaces of her paintings capitalize on the tension between representation and abstraction, inside and outside, what is hidden and what is visible. Abstract accumulations of line, colour and texture tentatively coalesce into the jagged contour of a beam, a corroded pipe or a pile of bricks.
This exhibition features selected large scale works on panel as well as small studies and works on Mylar. Julia Vandepolder maintains a full-time studio in Caledon.