December 16, 2011 – January 20, 2012
Opening: Friday, December 16, 6 – 8 p.m.
art Works art Gallery
238 Jane Street
Toronto ON M6S 3Z1
T: 416-766-0662
info@artworksartschool.com
www.artworksartschool.com
Curated by Lauren Renzetti
“Art allows me to attack my canvas without any preconceived ideas. I intuitively create while paying close attention to my materials and the relationships that develop between them. These different materials determine the various textures on the canvas; as a result, my art is not purely aesthetic but also a tactile experience.” – Corrie Burrows
Corrie has been making and teaching art for the last 15 years, having taught at such galleries as the MacLaren Art Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Works Art School and Todmorden Mills Museum and Art Centre.
She is fascinated by materials and enjoys watching the relationships that develop between them. She loves creating works that are not purely aesthetic but also a tactile experience. Her current obsessions are working with encaustics, textiles and knitting. To view more of her work please visit: www.corrieburrows.blogspot.com
The surfaces on all of Corrie Burrows paintings have texture, and depth; illusory or actual, with marks made from brush, knife, scraper and most importantly an electric palm sander. Burrows admits her strength in execution lies more in the scraping and sanding techniques she uses to develop her rich and varied surfaces than in the initial brush work. Her methods are based on the paint having life. What will the paint do with thinners, with wax, with gravity, with some intervention, with none? Watching what will happen next and either intervening or deciding not to is key. Burrows paints in the moment and responds directly to the paint, watching, waiting, piling paint on, taking paint off, and having a visual, tactile, dialogue with her surfaces.
Many of her pieces are untitled. Some hold that name so the viewer can put their own interpretation on them. These untitled works all invoke a sense of a place, mood, or memory.
About the Gallery: Art Works art Gallery supports vital contemporary art practices and initiatives by emerging and mid-career artists. Art Works’ mandate is to provide a professional venue for exhibitions along with technical support and promotional resources. Art Works art Gallery is utilized by art Works art School, as well as by artists outside of the art Works community. All art exhibited in the gallery space will go through the submission process and approval by the gallery submission committee.