loop
Gallery presents
January 31 – February 22, 2015 Opening Reception: January 31,
2015, 2-5PM
Q & A: Sunday, February 22, 2015, 2PM
Gareth
Bate Cosmos and Anarchy Part 2
Gareth Bate's Cosmos and Anarchy paintings depict
humans fighting a war with the cosmos. They are fighting their inevitable fate.
An impossible battle. Whipping grenades into the void. Firing catapults at
nothingness. Tear gas and burning buildings morph into galaxies. The series
evolved out of viewing violent and chaotic photos and videos of recent global
protests, riots and revolutions happening in Kiev, Cairo, Tehran, Athens,
Madrid, Belfast and London. Here global turmoil plays out as part of a cosmic
drama.
Gareth works primarily in
installation, painting and photography. He has exhibited in Toronto, Montreal
and Ottawa and is a graduate of OCAD University and The Art Centre at Central
Tech where he currently teaches History of Modern Art, Art
History - The Masters, and two Abstract Painting classes.
He is festival curator for the World of Threads Festival of contemporary
international fibre and textile art.
January 31 – February 22, 2015 Opening Reception: January
31, 2015, 2-5PM
Q & A: Sunday, February 22, 2015, 2PM
Carolyn Dinsmore Surface
– A Collection
Carolyn Dinsmore’s paintings of roads and rocks are cropped
landscapes (urban and rural) that zoom in and focus on surface pattern and
texture. Collecting photos, litter, stones, etc. during everyday travels
through familiar surroundings help in reconstructing images - evidence of
everyday use and natural erosion. Weathered layers express the opposing dynamic
of building up and wearing away.
Carolyn studied art history at Queen’s University and
the University of Toronto and taught art at the high school level. She left
teaching to open a shop that specialized in decorative textiles from India,
Africa, and Indonesia. After retiring from the retail business, she got back
into her art practice by attending the adult art program at Central Technical
School. The resulting paintings seem to be a sub-conscious response to texture
and pattern, coming from a close connection with textiles for so many years -
chunks of rock and road from the surrounding landscape/swatches cut from bolts
of fabric.
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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
