{"id":14017,"date":"2012-08-29T18:10:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=14017"},"modified":"2012-10-01T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T13:28:52","slug":"blair-sharpe-recent-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=14017","title":{"rendered":"Blair Sharpe \/ Recent Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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September 6\u00a0\u2013 30, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening Reception: Thursday, September 6, 6 \u2013 8 p.m.
\nFRAN HILL GALLERY<\/strong>
\n285 Rushton Road
\nToronto, ON, M6C 2X5
\nTel: 416.363.1333
\nE: franhillgallery@bellnet.ca
\nHours: Fri\u2013Sun 11\u20136 p.m. or by appointment<\/p>\n

“My principal concern as an artist is in painting, which I continue to find a fertile and exciting form of expression. I am concerned specifically with its intrinsic and essential formal qualities and with the interior emotional logic of paint \u2014 the interaction and integration of surface, plane, line, edge, shape and colour. I am also concerned with weight and resonance, and the dialogue between object and image.<\/p>\n

Painting is pure visual communication detached from the verbal and narrative aspect of language into pure experience relating to life in its operation, not in its superficial appearances and resemblances.<\/p>\n

I am interested in the confrontation between a ‘resistant’ explicit surface and spatial activity and how to maintain a structural equilibrium between them. In other words; how surface is modified, enhanced and possibly subverted by the relationship of line, edge, shape, colour and physical\/material characteristics. Colour is largely chosen by function, ambience, resonance and oscillation (slow\/fast), weight, and in relation to scale and surface activities.<\/p>\n

My current series of work is the On Some Faraway Beach Paintings<\/em>. The titles do not refer to nor describe real \u2018places\u2019. Conceptually On Some Faraway Beach alludes to the edges\/boundaries between the known and unknown, the near and the far, the real and the imagined. It is a \u2018place\u2019 of questing and reflection, the inside and the outside. In all formal respects the paintings are rigorously abstract.” Blair Sharpe, August 2012<\/p>\n

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September 6 \u2013 30, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening Reception: Thursday, Sept 6, 6\u20138 pm<\/p>\n

FRAN HILL GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is a \u2018place\u2019 of questing and reflection, the inside and the outside.<\/p>\n

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