{"id":15574,"date":"2012-10-17T08:55:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T12:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=15574"},"modified":"2012-12-22T17:39:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T22:39:33","slug":"the-quest-for-beauty-in-a-garden-elaine-waisglass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=15574","title":{"rendered":"The Quest for Beauty in a Garden – Elaine Waisglass"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong>October 4, 2012\u00a0– January 18, 2013<\/strong>
\nFIRST CANADIAN PLACE GALLERY<\/strong>
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\nToronto, ON M5X 1A9
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The Quest for Beauty in a Garden\u00a0 – Elaine Waisglass\u00a0Photography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elaine Waisglass\u2019s (www.elainewaisglass.com) photography exhibition, The Quest for Beauty in a Garden, running through until December 14, 2012 at First Canadian Place Gallery, is both inspiring and innovative. Executed as large and medium sized hand printed images using archival paper and inks, the exhibition is a unique collection of 16 limited-edition photographs fusing traditional ideas with the newest digital technology as well as a 20-minute, single channel video. The landscape and still-life photographs reflect a year in Waisglass’s own Toronto garden. Through her lens, the richly intense images appear almost painterly in their capturing of the arrested moment.<\/p>\n

Waisglass\u2019s work reaches back into art history to the 19th century Arts & Crafts movement\u2019s quest for beauty. \u201cThe movement\u2019s central concept of ‘the mutable moment’ (the quest for beauty, quickened by the inevitability of death) has become my own personal quest. In winter, long after the beautiful flowers of summer have faded, my photographs recall their beauty,\u201d says Waisglass.<\/p>\n

Waisglass<\/strong> studied fine arts and sculpture at the Ontario College of Art and Design. Waisglass\u2019s background with her innovative camera techniques, allows her to work skillfully with the latest technology, bending natural light to create the illusion of a third dimension in a two-dimension format that reflects Waisglass\u2019s quest for beauty in its most simple and enchanting form.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is a celebration of the Arts & Crafts philosophy and Waisglass\u2019s own home and garden – both heavily influenced by the international movement begun in the 1860s.\u00a0Waisglass creates potent images that hover at the threshold between the real and the impossibly real.<\/p>\n

Recently, Waisglass spent a year photographing different elements of the garden\u2019s cycle – from numerous old rose species and peonies every June to hydrangeas, Japanese Anemones and oak leaves in October – producing her stunning first collection, A Year in My Arts & Crafts Garden.<\/p>\n

Elaine Waisglass is represented by Edward Day Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 4, 2012 – January 18, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

FIRST CANADIAN PLACE GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through her lens, the richly intense images appear almost painterly in their capturing of the arrested moment.<\/p>\n

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