{"id":8324,"date":"2012-03-16T14:53:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T18:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2012-04-30T10:24:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T14:24:53","slug":"joseph-drapell-eternal-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=8324","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Drapell: Eternal Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>Joseph Drapell, Stepping Out (detail), 1985, 78.25 x 69″<\/p>\n

\u00a0March 22 – April 29, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening: Thursday, March 22, 7\u201310 p.m.
\nOpening remarks by \u00a0Aaron M. Milrad\u00a0J. D., B.A., Counsel at 7:30 p.m.
\nLAUSBERG CONTEMPORARY<\/strong>
\n326 Dundas Street West
\nToronto, Ontario M5T 1G5
\nT: 416.516.4440
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\nwww.galerie-lausberg.com<\/a>
\nHours: Tues\u2013Sun 12\u20136 or by appointment<\/p>\n

Please join us for the opening reception of Joseph Drapell : ETERNAL RETURN\u00a0<\/strong> Thursday, March 22, 7\u201310 p.m.\u00a0 at Toronto’s Lausberg Contemporary Gallery. The artist will be present. Don\u2019t miss opening remarks by Aaron M. Milrad<\/strong>\u00a0 J. D., B.A., Counsel\u00a0 at 7:30 pm.<\/p>\n

Drapell<\/strong> first established his reputation with a series of large, primarily red, abstract canvases, which attracted little attention in Canada until one appeared on the cover of Art International<\/em> (1978) and another was purchased by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1979).<\/p>\n

In the 1980s Drapell further developed his personal methods, using striated spreading devices, bevelled stretchers, reflective paint and acrylic gels to stimulate the creative process. He gained continued inspiration from his “spiritual home” on Georgian Bay in the “Island Pictures,” finding meaning in the ethereal, freely flowing forms of sun and water. Drapell was guest artist at the Triangle Artists’ Workshop (NY State, 1984) and the Emma Lake Artists’ Workshop <\/span>(SK, 1988).<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 1990s Drapell was widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, where he was recognized by American critic Kenworth Moffett and Parisian gallery owner G\u00e9rald Piltzer as a leading figure among the “new new painters,” a grouping of abstract artists in Canada and the northeastern United States whose work is characterized by high-keyed, glossy colour and built-up surfaces.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Joseph Drapell (in middle) with visitors at the opening<\/p>\n

“My painting did not start with an agenda to return what art had lost\u00a0 in the postmodern period\u2014not at all\u2014instead it was my free, idealistic,\u00a0non-conforming character that forced me to build myself without much\u00a0concern for trends, for being ‘in.’ It gave me the ability and willingness<\/em> to be ‘out of sync.’<\/p>\n

“Looking back at my work, it seems to me that my art has provided\u00a0an alternative to the verbal, non-visual trends. By now, the record\u00a0\u00a0shows the absurdity of the postmodern aim when subjective self-expression was discarded in order to provide ‘more objective’ art. Without personal focus, how can art be authentic?\u00a0Without visual power, how can art endure?” – JD 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 22–April 29, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening: Thursday, March 22, 7–10 p.m.<\/p>\n

LAUSBERG CONTEMPORARY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Drapell is a leading figure among the “new new painters,”<\/p>\n

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