New Exibitions by TANYA CUNNINGTON and KIM STANFORD Reception: Saturday, March 1, 2014, 2-5PM

                                                                        

       Calgary, September 2013, Acrylic on paper, 22"x22", 2013                                                                        So uh Mike Kelly and Jeff Koons walk into a bar…, 25"x11"x10", socks, acrylic, brass,    

                                                                                                                      marble, 2014                                                            

 March 1 – 23, 2014 Reception: Saturday, March 1, 2014, 2-5PM 

Tanya Cunnington Cal.endar 

For many years, Cunnington has been inspired by personal nostalgia. This particular body of work is derived from the significant events of the last year and a half of her life, and the many changes within that time frame, including pregnancy, the birth of her son, the deaths of loved ones, and moving back to her home town. 

Born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Cunnington now resides in Orillia. In 2001, she received her Associates Degree from the Ontario College of Art and Design, with a Major in Drawing and Painting, and was the recipient of the Eric Freifeld Award for Excellence in Figurative Art. She is a co-curator of “The Still Parade”, an annual Exhibition held at the Arthur Shilling Gallery in Rama, Ontario. Her work has been included in Magenta Foundation’s publication of Carte Blanche Volume II-Painting, and reviewed in Canadian Art Magazine. 

Kim Stanford Dirtier 

Dirtier continues Stanford’s absurd investigation into the seemingly insignificant yet pivotal act of picking up other's discarded socks. Stanford has mutated and transformed an entire year’s drudgery (2136 socks) into large imaginative works in order to examine how a monumental repetition of tiny mundane moments informs relations with self and others. Swaths of oft gendered multiples attract and repel, and open a conversation regarding the universal search for meaning within the taken for granted. 

Stanford studied visual art at The Toronto School of Art (TSA) and OCADU, as well as critical social theory in her graduate degree from the University of Toronto. This installation is generously supported by a Toronto Arts Council emerging artist grant. 

loop Thanks 

AUDAXlaw Sumac.com 

loop Gallery 

1273 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6J 1X8 (3 doors west of Dovercourt). 

Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat 12 to 5 pm, and Sun 1 to 4pm. Artist is in attendance on Sundays and for the reception. 

For more information please contact the gallery director at 416-516-2581 or visit: www.loopgallery.ca 

Last Chance to See - GARETH BATE and LINDA HEFFERMAN - Loop Exhibit Final Days February 19 to 23, 2014

 Gareth Bate's Cosmos and Anarchy series consists of small abstracted paintings depicting an imagined cosmos combined with video stills from recent riots in London, Athens, Madrid, Cairo, and Tehran. These twelve inch-square, densely worked paintings depict our current global turmoil playing out as part of cosmic drama. Around the world people are rising up in an effort to overthrow tyrannical governments. The worry is always what will replace them? 

The cosmos, as well as metaphors of historical time, have been central themes in Gareth's work for several years, Most significantly, cosmic and historical themes run through his ongoing Jewel Net of Indra installation. He has been working on this massive painting-based installation for two and half years. It now includes 1600 miniature painted historical figures on mirrors. 

 Adaptation continues Linda Heffernan's exploration of the potential ramifications of extreme climate change and the opposing points of view that make a considered global response so challenging. The textured semi-abstract paintings in this exhibit use satellite views of major cities and snippets of media commentary as a jumping off point to an imagined landscape. 

Linda Heffernan is a Whitby-based artist exploring themes of consumer capitalism and bureaucracy in an ever more interconnected global economy. She has a BFA from OCAD University and her work is included in a number of private and public collections in Canada. Linda Heffernan has exhibited her work in a number of galleries in Toronto's Queen West district as well as Whitby's Station Gallery and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa. 

 loop Thanks 

AUDAXlaw Sumac.com 

loop Gallery 

1273 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M6J 1X8 (3 doors west of Dovercourt). 

Gallery Hours: Wed - Sat 12 to 5 pm, and Sun 1 to 4pm. Artist is in attendance on Sundays and for the reception. 

For more information please contact the gallery director at 416-516-2581 or visit: www.loopgallery.ca 

Gareth Bate and Linda Heffernan's Opening Reception