{"id":3713,"date":"2011-10-03T13:06:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T13:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2011-11-07T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T16:00:19","slug":"david-holt-landscapes-and-subjects-from-natural-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=3713","title":{"rendered":"David Holt: Landscapes and Subjects from Natural History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/David-Holt.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3714\" title=\"David Holt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/David-Holt.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>October 15 \u2013 November 6, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Saturday, October 15, 2-5 pm<br \/>\nQ&amp;A: Saturday, October 15, 2011, 1\u00a0pm moderated by Patrick Macaulay<br \/>\n<strong>Loop Gallery<\/strong><br \/>\n1273 Dundas Street West<br \/>\nToronto, ON, M6J 1X8<br \/>\nT: 416.516.2581<br \/>\nE-mail:<a href=\"mailto:loopgallery.patricia@gmail.com\">loopgallery.patricia@gmail.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/loopgallery.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/loopgallery.blogspot.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loopgallery.ca\/\">www.loopgallery.ca<\/a><br \/>\nHours: Wed-Sat 12-5pm, Sun 1-4pm<\/p>\n<p>David Holt\u2019s paintings in his third show at Loop depict landscapes as well as motifs derived from displays of birds, antiquities, and other collections found in museums of natural history. Many of the works playfully reinterpret the grid-like arrangements of objects in museum display cases while others elaborate on concepts of ideal landscapes, from both Eastern and Western classical traditions. Taken together, the works explore our ideas about nature, culture, and memory.<br \/>\nA painter who has had many solo and group shows in the US, David Holt has been the recipient of a painting grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and an artist residency at the Ragdale Foundation. Holt lives and works in Toronto where he teaches art at Upper Canada College.<br \/>\nIn a classically inspired narrative that looks at the idea of passage as both a means of access and a turning point or crossroads, Suzanne Nacha\u2019s series of paintings entitled Signs for Travelers offers up a simplified visual logic that acts as a mirror to the human condition. Dark humour prevails as anthropomorphic forms evolving from underground tunnels, caves and rail systems play at the boundary between visual sign and physical trigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 15 \u2013 November 6,2011<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Saturday, October 15, 2-5 pm<br \/>\nQ&#038;A: Saturday, October 15, 2011, 1 pm moderated by Patrick Macaulay<\/p>\n<p><strong>LOOP GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dark humour prevails as anthropomorphic forms evolving from underground tunnels, caves and rail systems play at the boundary between visual sign and physical trigger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=3713\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","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\/3713","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=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5174,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions\/5174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}