{"id":15212,"date":"2012-10-05T11:17:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=15212"},"modified":"2012-11-11T12:38:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T17:38:34","slug":"menunkind-new-iron-men-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=15212","title":{"rendered":"Menunkind: New Iron Men Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Gary Michael Dault, John Scott and Matthew Varey<\/p>\n

October 10 – November 10, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening Reception: Friday, October 12, 6 – 9 p.m.
\nTELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY<\/strong>
\n3148 Dundas St. W.
\nToronto, ON, M6P 2A1
\nT: 647-270-7903
\nE: sharlene@telephoneboothgallery.ca
\nwww.telephoneboothgallery.ca
\nHours: Wed and Sat 11\u20136, Thurs and Fri 11 \u2013 7 p. m.<\/p>\n

Collaborative works by Gary Michael Dault, John Scott and Matthew Varey<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Iron Men have been painting together since 2005. The creation of their works is an act of continual, consensual critique, with each of the artists taking the suggestions and actions of the other two seriously until some mutual agreement is attained — which brings the work to its final form.<\/p>\n

The Iron Men work midway between the realms of abstraction and the generation of raw, gritty paintings often built upon strongly realized shapes or images — usually reinforced by spontaneous applications of text.<\/p>\n

Gary Michael Dault<\/strong> is a writer, art critic and visual artist currently working in Napanee, Ontario. He has taught at several Canadian universities and is a prolific writer of books, articles and catalogue essays about contemporary art.\u00a0 His weekly art review column, Gallery-Going, ran in the Globe and Mail for over a decade. He exhibits widely and is represented by Peak Gallery in Toronto.<\/p>\n

John Scott<\/strong> received the first Governor General’s Award for Visual Art in Canada in 2002. Scott’s paintings and sculptures are held in numerous private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the National Gallery of Canada.\u00a0 Themes in Scott’s work include destruction, oppression, machines and human desire and frequently feature imagery involving\u00a0 war machines, missiles and victimized rabbit-like figures.\u00a0 Scott is represented by Nicholas Metivier Gallery in Toronto.<\/p>\n

Matthew Varey<\/strong> is the Head of the Visual Arts department at the Etobicoke School for the Arts, and has been exhibiting his paintings, sculpture and photographs nationally and internationally for over twenty years. Varey\u2019s work has evolved from large works containing figurative elements with a focus on the physical surface and themes of protest, towards a combination of abstraction and colour photography.\u00a0 Varey continues to explore abstraction in his current body of work maintaining similar themes of visual texture, vivid colour and the use of various perspectives simultaneously. Recent works available at Telephone Booth Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 10 – November 10, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening: Friday, October 12, 6-9 pm<\/p>\n

TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Collaborative works by Gary Michael Dault, John Scott and Matthew Varey<\/p>\n

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