{"id":5035,"date":"2011-11-04T14:14:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T14:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2011-12-12T14:20:34","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T14:20:34","slug":"feedback-by-ognian-zekoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=5035","title":{"rendered":"Feedback by Ognian Zekoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/The-Light-Keepers_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5036\" title=\"The Light Keepers_3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/The-Light-Keepers_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/strong>The Light Keepers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>November 17 \u2013 December 11, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening:\u00a0 Thursday, November 17, 6 -9 pm &#8211; Artist in attendance<br \/>\n<strong>Thompson Landry Gallery<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Distillery District<br \/>\n55 Mill Street, Building 5, #102<br \/>\n&amp; The Cooperage Building #32<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario, M5A 3C4<br \/>\nTel: 416-364-4955<br \/>\nE-mail:<a href=\"mailto:info@thompsonlandry.com\">info@thompsonlandry.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thompsonlandry.com\/\">www.thompsonlandry.com<\/a><br \/>\nHours: Tues \u2013 Sat 11-6, Sun 12-5<\/p>\n<p>On November 17th, the Thompson Landry Gallery invites you to experience Feedback, a solo exhibition of high-realism oil paintings that instantly catch the eye of viewers as their incredible closeness to reality approaches a visual illusion.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe hands are one of the most expressive parts of the human body. Zekoff has mastered the ability to capture what is the mood of his subject by simply portraying the hands. Their imaginative positions have an incredible emotive power and can conjure a range of states of mind such as anxiety, concern, protection and love.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe artist is a master chiaroscurist, using the effect of bright lights and dark shadows to create such strong depth that the subjects seem to reach out of the canvas towards the viewer.\u00a0 The simplicity and purity of these stimulating images exude a soothing calm as they contradict the overwhelming influx of images that saturate and convolute our everyday lives in modern society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>November 17 \u2013 December 11, 2011<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening:  Thursday, November 17, 6-9 pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thompson Landry Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>his hands have an incredible emotive power and can conjure a range of states of mind such as anxiety, concern, protection and love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=5035\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5035","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\/5035","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=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions\/5039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}