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loop Gallery
presents
John Abrams
Seeing
Seberg
September
13 – October 5, 2014
Reception: Saturday, September 13, 2- 5PM
John Abrams has been painting images plucked from cinema
for more than decade, returning to Jean Luc Godard’s oeuvre on more than one
occasion to the point where one might see his practice as obsessive. The
painter’s 2014 Loop Gallery exhibit Seeing Seberg, is no exception, it
features a grid of 20, 16 inch high x 12 inch wide black and white paintings
culled from Godard’s 1960 film, Breathless. Each monochromatic oil
pictures the patrician blonde, Jean Seberg playing the role of Patricia. A few
free-standing polychrome sculptures, derivative of Constantin Brâncuși,
Alexander Calder and Max Ernst and a video, which screens Godard’s source film
spliced with Abrams’ noir et blanche work accompany this allegorical
show.
Abrams holds an MFA
from York University and is an associate of the Ontario College of Art and
Design. A founding and current member of loop Gallery in Toronto,
where he shows on a regular basis, the artist is represented by Boltax Gallery
in New York and Evans Contemporary in Peterborough. His work is represented in
many important permanent collections including the National Gallery of Canada
and Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Art Gallery of Windsor, McMaster Museum of
Art, Hamilton, McDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Robert McLaughlin Art
Gallery, Oshawa, University of Toronto Art Centre [UTAC], Doris McCarthy Art
Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art [MOCCA], Toronto, Tom Thomson
Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Memorial University, Sir Wilfred Grenfell
College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, NFL, the O’Hare Airport, Chicago, as
well as numerous corporate and private collections in Canada, the United States
and Europe.
The Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound and
RiverBrink Art Museum, in Queenston, ON, are currently featuring his work in
their 2014 exhibits.
For more detail, please visit the artist’s website: http://johnabramscontemporaryart.com/.
For more detail, please visit the artist’s website: http://johnabramscontemporaryart.com/.
Candida Girling
A City Slice of Sky: An Urban Intervention
September 13 – October 5, 2014
Reception: Saturday, September 13, 2014, 2-5PM
loop Gallery is pleased to present A City Slice of Sky: An Urban Intervention, a new exhibition by Candida Girling with Aaron Davis.
This interactive, sculptural installation, created by Candida Girling and Aaron Davis, is an attempt to re-claim public space and to facilitate green incursions into the concrete and steel of the city. It suggests that we have an inherent need for nature but instead find ourselves in a contemporary urban environment characterized by the triumph of consumer culture, with its attendant pollution, alienation and diminished green space. The installation juxtaposes elements from the natural and urban worlds with the aim of providing a momentary respite from the mania of city life.
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Girling studied literature, art and industrial design in Denmark, Scotland and Toronto, where she now lives and works. Girling has been teaching at OCADU as well as Suny University of New York, where she received her MFA in Art and Emerging Practice. Girling is a founding member of loop Gallery. Her work can be found in collections in Canada, the U.S. and in Europe.
Aaron Davis is an eclectic composer and pianist whose work spans film- scoring, songwriting, arranging for orchestra, and concert performance. He was a founding member of the Holly Cole Trio, and is the musical director for Measha Brueggergosman. He has been collaborating on interactive art projects with Candida Girling since 2011.
Girling gratefully acknowledges the Techne Institute of Technology Award 2014, from SUNY University of New York at Buffalo.
Please join the artist to celebrate the exhibition opening on Saturday, September 13th from 2-5 PM.
Image: Plant growing in totemic, modular steel structure, taken from Sculptural Living Wall Installation. Canvas, steel and Ivy, 2014.
