{"id":8482,"date":"2012-03-21T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=8482"},"modified":"2012-04-23T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T13:36:12","slug":"8482","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=8482","title":{"rendered":"John Abrams: Entertaining Modernism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/JohnAbrams_The_Mountie_and_Mondrian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8456\" title=\"JohnAbrams_The_Mountie_and_Mondrian\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/JohnAbrams_The_Mountie_and_Mondrian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"354\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a>John Abrams, The Mountie and Mondrian, oil on canvas, 58 x 77 inches, 2012<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 31 \u2013 April 22, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Saturday, March 31, 2\u20135\u00a0p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>LOOP GALLERY<\/strong><br \/>\n1273 Dundas Street West<br \/>\nToronto, ON, M6J 1X8<br \/>\nT: 416.516.2581<br \/>\nE: <a href=\"mailto:loopgallery.patricia@gmail.com\">loopgallery.patricia@gmail.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/loopgallery.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/loopgallery.blogspot.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loopgallery.ca\/\">www.loopgallery.ca<\/a><br \/>\nHours: Wed\u2013Sat 12\u20135 p.m., Sun 1\u20134 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>loop Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition by loop member John Abrams entitled Entertaining Modernism.<\/p>\n<p>Entertaining Modernism comprises a selection of new paintings and sculptures that emanate from John Abrams\u2019 ongoing interest in concepts of the modern found in film, sculpture and painting. Experimenting with narrative disjuncture by juxtaposing abstract forms that have over time taken on recognizable modernist symbolism, he achieves great visual effects with the immediacy of painting.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams holds an MFA from York University and AOCA from the Ontario College of Art. His work is represented by Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, New York. His paintings can be found in major public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Canada Council Art Bank and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, as well as numerous private collections in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>March 31 \u2013 April 22, 2012<\/strong><br \/>\nOpening: Saturday, March 31, 2\u20135 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LOOP GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>new paintings and sculptures that emanate from Abrams\u2019 interest in concepts of the modern<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=8482\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8482","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\/8482","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=8482"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9675,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8482\/revisions\/9675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}