{"id":12800,"date":"2012-07-07T12:21:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T16:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=12800"},"modified":"2012-08-10T12:16:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:16:49","slug":"rob-croxford-city-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=12800","title":{"rendered":"Rob Croxford &#8220;City &#038; Country&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Rob_Croxford_City_Girl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12799\" title=\"City Girl 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Rob_Croxford_City_Girl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Rob_Croxford_City_Girl.jpg 360w, https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Rob_Croxford_City_Girl-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Rob_Croxford_City_Girl-250x200.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>City Girl 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>July\u00a015 \u2013 August 9, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening reception: Thursday, July 19, 7 \u2013 9 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>HANGMAN ART GALLERY<\/strong><br \/>\n756 Queen Street East (east of Broadview Avenue)<br \/>\nToronto, ON M4M 1H4<br \/>\nGallery Hours: Tues \u2013 Sun, 12 \u2013 5 p.m.<br \/>\nT: 416.465.0302<br \/>\nE: hangmangallery@gmail.com<br \/>\nFacebook: Hang Man Gallery<br \/>\nTwitter:@hangmangallery<\/p>\n<p>Hangman Art Gallery is proud to announce City &amp; Country, works by Rob Croxford exploring the relationship between city and country by juxtaposing retro-styled imagery with urban and rural landscapes.<\/p>\n<p>Croxford&#8217;s necessity of looking to the past to help shape the future is summed up in the vintage \u2019poster art\u2019 look with the sense of nostalgia done by combining collage-like techniques used with mix media for an entertaining and challenging engagement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI employ humour and word play to address environmental and sociopolitical issues. By integrating comedic devises I am able to convey my ideas in a highly accessible way. I call this a \u2018spoon-full of sugar\u2019 approach to activism!\u201d Rob Croxford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>July 15 \u2013 August 9, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening reception: Thursday, July 19, 7 \u2013 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HANGMAN ART GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>the relationship between city and country by juxtaposing retro-styled imagery with urban and rural landscapes<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=12800\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12800","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\/12800","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=12800"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13544,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12800\/revisions\/13544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}