March 9 – April 7, 2012
Opening: Friday, March 9, 6–8 p.m.
MOORE GALLERY
Art at 80
80 Spadina Ave., Suite 404
Toronto, ON M5V 2J3
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Hours: Tue–Sat 12–5 p.m.
John Anderson: Some Transfigurations is a series of abstract impressionist landscapes done in Ontario’s Boyd Conservatory.
Born in 1940 in Calcutta, India, Anderson is a self-taught artist. He moved to Canada in 1953 where he took up painting. From 1965–1970 he lived in France, where he continued his personal exploration of the arts. His first solo exhibition was at the Toronto General Library where Allen Sudden was the curator.
He now lives and works near Toronto.
Douglas Bentham: Spanish Voices’ works are bold, linear forms of galvanized steel and iron which have a distinctly primitive feel that is derived from the artist’s time in Spain.
The artist said about Spanish Voices, “As I began working on this series, I recognized the possibilities of creating bold, linear forms with a certain primitive feel, which could become containers for coloured planar inserts of a painterly nature. One quality of the sculptures that repeatedly emerged was a fullness, at once both generous and casual, that reminded me of my experiences visiting Spain, of its vivid landscape, people and culture, and of the remarkable artists whose voices we still hear.”
Douglas Bentham has maintained an international reputation as a major practitioner of abstract, constructivist sculpture for over forty years. “He is one of the country’s most prolific sculptors,” writes art critic Terry Fenton, “one of its finest, one of Canada’s first sculptors in every sense.”