{"id":7634,"date":"2012-02-18T17:57:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T22:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=7634"},"modified":"2012-03-05T09:52:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:52:30","slug":"michelle-montague-microcosm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=7634","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Montague: Microcosm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/09_Montague_LuminousExtractsOct302011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7669\" title=\"09_Montague_LuminousExtractsOct302011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/09_Montague_LuminousExtractsOct302011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>February 22 &#8211; March 4, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Thursday, February 23, 7:00 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>GALLERT 1313 CELL GALLERY<\/strong><br \/>\n1313 Queen Street West<br \/>\nToronto, ON, M6K 1K8<br \/>\nT: 416.536.6778<br \/>\nE: director@g1313.org<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallery13131.org\">www.gallery13131.org<\/a><br \/>\nHours: Wed\u2013Sun 1:00\u20136:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michelle Montague uses the visual queues of story-telling to explore the idea of Nature as an active participant of a micro-universe. With overlapping gestured lines, the artist intuitively creates a world immersed in fantasy. In this series of drawings and paintings, images of strange creature inhabitants try to balance a delicate relationship with their \u201cmother\u201d \u2013 Nature. The work depicts a series of events, where the creatures find themselves in a world where the forces of \u201cmother\u201d are ever so present; they are physically \u201ccaught\u201d in the process. Much like ourselves, the creatures are both loved and scorned by their well-being \u201cmother\u201d as they get jostled about like goldfish in a tiny bowl of water. Through this body of work the artist attempts to further her understanding of Nature, the life energy and its ever lasting process of rejuvenation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>February 22 \u2013 March 4, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Thursday, February 23, 7:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GALLERY 1313<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Explore the idea of Nature as an active participant of a micro-universe with  overlapping gestured lines, the artist intuitively creates a world immersed in fantasy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=7634\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7634","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\/7634","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=7634"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8102,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions\/8102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}