{"id":4361,"date":"2011-10-19T13:51:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T13:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2011-11-28T15:27:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T15:27:53","slug":"troy-brooks-%e2%80%9ccolossus%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=4361","title":{"rendered":"Troy Brooks:  \u201cColossus\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/troy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4358\" title=\"troy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/troy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>October 28 &#8211; November 27, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening October 27, 6 -9 pm<br \/>\n<strong>PENTIMENTO FINE ART GALLERY<\/strong><br \/>\n1164 Queen Street East<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario M4M 1L4<br \/>\nT: 416-406-6772<br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:rockinrolland@sympatico.ca\">rockinrolland@sympatico.ca<\/a><br \/>\nHours: Wed &#8211;\u00a0Sunday 12 &#8211;\u00a06 \u00a0pm<\/p>\n<p>The new series entitled \u201cColossus\u201d is based around the poetry of Sylvia Plath and the oil on canvas images are all portraits of women.\u00a0 As Troy states, \u201cI am a painter of women\u2019s stories and each painting in this series is a character that surfaces for me in the lines of her poetry.\u00a0 Each is a distinctly different character, but the through-line is that these are all women who have built a passionate choreography out of dancing with their demons.\u00a0 Another interesting element of these characters is the conflict of identity.\u00a0 They are the persona of a delicate young blonde woman in simple settings but wrestling with a savage intellect riddled with complex dark ruminations at a time when young women were supposed to be demure and uncomplicated.\u00a0 They are at once expanding and in the process of imploding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an August 2010 review, R.M. Vaughan of The Globe and Mail stated that \u201cTroy Brooks\u2019s gender-questionable, powdery oil paintings of pin-thin (and pinch-faced) \u201cladies\u201d, are malicious matrons who appear to have walked out of an Edward Gorey illustration after raiding Johnny Depp\u2019s Alice in Wonderland costume rack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Troy Brooks inspiration may be the writing of Sylvia Path but his talent lies in the way he is able to work the fine details using watercolour brushes within the oil on canvas.<strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 28 &#8211; November 27, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening October 27, 6 -9 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>PENTIMENTO FINE ART GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Each is a distinctly different character, but the through-line is that these are all women who have built a passionate choreography out of dancing with their demons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=4361\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","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\/4361","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=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5902,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/5902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}