{"id":519,"date":"2011-06-17T01:39:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T01:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=519"},"modified":"2011-07-25T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T14:23:13","slug":"michael-burges-reverse-glass-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Michael Burges: Reverse Glass Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>June 9 \u2013 July 24, 2011<br \/>\nOpening: Thursday June 9, 7-10pm (with the artist present)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>[column width=&#8221;40%&#8221; padding=&#8221;5%&#8221;]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LausbergGallery_ReverseGlassPaintings.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-637\" title=\"LausbergGallery_ReverseGlassPaintings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/LausbergGallery_ReverseGlassPaintings.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>Reverse Glass Paintings, No. 56, 2009. Acrylic, Plexiglas, Wood, Aluminum. 180 x 150 cm (70.9\u201d x 59.1)<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n[\/column]<br \/>\n[column width=&#8221;50%&#8221; padding=&#8221;5%&#8221;]<strong>LAUSBERG CONTEMPORARY<\/strong><br \/>\n326 Dundas Street West<br \/>\nToronto, Ontario M5T 1G5<br \/>\nT: 416-516-4440<br \/>\nE: <a href=\"mailto:toronto@galerie-lausberrg.com\">toronto@galerie-lausberrg.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.galerie-lausberg.com\">www.galerie-lausberg.com<\/a><br \/>\nHours: Tues-Sun 12\u20136 or by appointment<\/p>\n<p>Burges began working on his Reverse Glass Painting series in 2007, inspired by the shiny surface of Diasec mounting technology prevalent in contemporary photography. Burges\u2019 non-figurative paintings can be called \u201clyrical\u201d or \u201cexpressionist\u201d, \u201cinformal\u201d or \u201cgestural\u201d at the same time. Burges painting follows an almost scientific plan and development, systematically exploring the aesthetic possibilities of colour and space and their relations, as well as those of the painting to the viewer and vice versa.<br \/>\n[\/column]<br \/>\n[end_columns]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>June 9 \u2013 July 24, 2011<\/b><br \/>\nOpening: Thursday June 9, 7-10pm (with the artist present)<\/p>\n<p>LAUSBERG CONTEMPORARY<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Burges began working on his Reverse Glass Painting series in 2007, inspired by the shiny surface of Diasec mounting technology prevalent in contemporary photography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=519\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listings_archive","tag-lausberg-contemporary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}