Sasha Pierce, Vary (detail), 2011. Oil on linen. 21 x 16 inches
January 14 – February 11, 2012
Opening: Saturday, January 14, 4 – 6 pm.
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects
1450 Dundas Street West (near Gladstone)
Toronto, ON, M6J 1Y6
T: 416-537-3125
E-mail: info@jessicabradleyartprojects.com
www.jessicabradleyartprojects.com/
www.sashapierce.ca
Hours: Wednesday-Saturday 12-5pm or by appointment
Paint As Object brings together the work of two emerging painters who are reconsidering the possibilities of abstraction through inventive approaches to their material. Both Jeremy Hof and Sasha Pierce employ a laborious and repetitive process, using paint as a sculptural material that can be in turn, routed, sanded or as it appears, woven. Hof methodically applies hundreds of layers of acrylic paint, which he then routs into to expose brilliantly hued gradations. Pierce meticulously lays multi-colored lines of oil paint onto canvas in thread-like uniform rows, creating vibrant and ilusory compositions to resemble textiles or tapestries. Existing between painting and sculpture, here paint performs a double role; as a surface that produces trompe l’oeuil-like optical effects and as a solid material – an object.
Based in Vancouver and a graduate of the Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Jeremy Hof won the prestigious RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2008. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Blanket Contemporary Art, Vancouver and Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver. His work was included in ‘Enacting Abstraction’ at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2009.
Toronto-based artist Sasha Pierce holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo. She has exhibited at ACME, Los Angeles; Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto; Cambridge Galleries; and Macdonald Steward Art Center, Guelph. Pierce was awarded Honorable Mention in the RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2009.