Elizabeth Babyn
Cosmic Fishnet
November 9th – December 1st, 2013
Reception: Saturday,
November 9th, 2- 5 PM
Q & A: Sunday, December 1st,
2pm
loop Gallery is
pleased to announce a new exhibition by member artist, Elizabeth Babyn,
entitled Cosmic Fishnet.
In Cosmic Fishnet,
Babyn continues to investigate the inter-relationship between sacred
geometry and Fibonacci’s number sequences. These sequences have eloquently
demonstrated that all things in nature begin with a single point, and their
very proportions are repeated everywhere and in everything. So too with the
‘cosmic fishnet’ design, which claims to include every known sacred geometrical
structure in existence.
Fascinated by this
possibility as well as the beauty, elegance, and complexity of the cosmic
fishnet design, Babyn has integrated both the design and the sequences
throughout her current body of work. She layers and incorporates these elements
using a variety of mixed media and textile processes on gin washi paper, tyvek
and tulle; some aspects of the process are retained, others are lost or
deliberately hidden. Babyn’s method
serves as a metaphor for the spiritual nature of her subject matter, which
represents the seen, the unseen, the known and the unknowable.
Babyn and her husband moved from Caledon, Ontario to
Saskatoon nearly 3 years ago. She currently teaches art at USCAD and offers
workshops at her studio. Babyn
received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD and has exhibited in Italy
and Canada. Her work can be found in
collections in Canada, Germany, and Switzerland. She has been a member of loop
Gallery since 2003.
Learn more about Elizabeth
Babyn’s work during a Q & A session with artist, Richard Sewell,
on Sunday, December 1st at 2pm.
Richard Sewell
wherelocal (too)
November 9th – December 1st, 2013
Reception: Saturday,
November 9th, 2- 5 PM
Q & A:
Sunday, December 1st, 2pm
loop Gallery is
pleased to announce a new exhibition by member artist, Richard Sewell,
entitled wherelocal (too).
Dating back to 1994, wherelocal (too) is part of a body of work
which investigates image as being a location, an object, and a
notation, by using actual locations, objects, and notations to enable
image. In manner, wherelocal (too) is not a picture, a document, a
concept, but rather is a dimensional notation, able to include the observer as:
one located, an object, and experienced about notation. Example:
Observed in a landscape, an object differs in appearance and in
significance, relative to where it and the observer are each located.
In a career spanning over 40 years, Sewell has been an exhibiting
artist, artist collaborator, printmaker, publisher, teacher, and
administrator/manager in the arts and in education with: Open Studio, OCADU,
ACAD, the University of Saskatchewan, and the joint Art and Art History Program of Sheridan College,
Oakville, and the University of Toronto, Mississauga. Sewell co-founded
Toronto’s Open Studio in 1970, and in 1982 began to teach in the Sheridan
Programs of Art and Art History, Art Fundamentals, and Crafts and Design.
Retiring studio professor emeritus in 2011, he is now resident in Grand Bend,
Ontario, where as a visual investigationist he pursues wherelocal/geoplasticimage/gpi;
an observation of image in light of locusethics, sequencing, and habit.
Learn more about Richard
Sewell’s work during a Q & A session with artist, Elizabeth Babyn,
on Sunday, December 1st at 2pm.
Babyn Image left: Cosmic Fishnet (detail), ginwashi paper, tulle and mixed media, 2013
Sewell Image right: wherelocal tab/let/one (detail), 2013
Sewell Image right: wherelocal tab/let/one (detail), 2013
