{"id":11395,"date":"2012-05-29T10:46:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=11395"},"modified":"2012-07-29T00:45:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T04:45:28","slug":"progression-rot-by-jenna-crook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=11395","title":{"rendered":"Progression &#038; Rot by Jenna Crook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11396\" title=\"P1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/P1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJune 7 &#8211; July 28, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Thursday, June 7, 6 &#8211; 9 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>2 of 2\u00a0GALLERY<\/strong><br \/>\n254 Niagara St.<br \/>\nToronto, ON, M6J 2L8<br \/>\nT: 416.591.6464<br \/>\nE: info@2of2gallery.com<br \/>\nHours: Wed &#8211; Sat 12 &#8211; 5 p.m. or by appointment<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;\">2 of 2 Gallery<\/span><span style=\"color: black;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: black;\">is pleased to present a solo exhibition of<\/span><span style=\"color: red;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: black;\">paintings by\u00a0Toronto\u00a0based artist Jenna Crook. The exhibition is curated by\u00a0<strong>Nadine Khoury<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">Crook\u2019s paintings in this exhibition explore her fascination with abstracted reality. They communicate to the<\/span>\u00a0viewer what is present, but at the same time, make you more aware of what has been lost.<span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">Crook says, \u201c<\/span>When people look at an image, they never see just one thing. Instantly, our brain will start to relate and connect that image to a whole mess of other things \u2013 things that often seem unrelated \u2013 but if there is a slight connection, the mind will find it. Sometimes, the thing that actually connects the two is their complete disconnect. This is how we understand everything; things make sense only in relation to other things, nothing exists solely by itself.<span style=\"color: black;\">\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">Viewers of Crook\u2019s paintings are thrown into a deep ambiguity of distorted communication, and fractured images. They become inclined to connect their own memories and experiences to the work, while simultaneously acknowledging their gaps in memory as things have rotted away. Crook\u2019s paintings speak to the human struggle for balance in a time where things are rapidly becoming more connected, yet just as quickly, disconnected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\">Jenna Crook born 1991 in\u00a0Toronto\u00a0Canada, is an emerging artist studying at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCADU). Her paintings have been included in several exhibitions around\u00a0Toronto.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>June 7 &#8211; July 28, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening:Thursday June 7, 6-9pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 of 2 GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crook\u2019s paintings speak to the human struggle for balance in a time where things are rapidly becoming more connected, yet just as quickly, disconnected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=11395\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11395"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13333,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11395\/revisions\/13333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}