Interview with Rochelle Rubinstein

loop member Rochelle Rubinstein was recently featured on The World of Threads Festival Weekly Fibre Artist Interview Series.  In this interview, she describes her working process, sources of inspiration and other aspects of her artistic practice. Read the interview here.

Rochelle Rubinstein's current exhibition with Lanny Shereck entitled HOMESTEAD is at loop Gallery until September 25, 2011. Homestead, features a collaborative installation of Lanny's house-like structures covered with Rochelle's block-printed, painted and embroidered silk - an exploration of the notion of home and of dwelling. Together the artists intended to evoke the permanence and strength of stone in combination with the fragility and comfort of fabric.

Homestead: Rochelle Rubinstein and Lanny Shereck

Rochelle Rubinstein and Lanny Shereck
Homestead

September 3 - September 25, 2011
Reception: Thursday, September 8, 6-8pm

Rochelle Rubinstein and Lanny Shereck at Loop Gallery

loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by loop members Rochelle Rubinstein and Lanny Shereck, entitled Homestead. 

“We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.”

Winston Churchill

This exhibition presents an exploration of the notion of habitation and homesteading.

The evocation of home in a collaborative installation, DWELLING, combines the permanence and strength of stone with the fragility and comfort of fabric.  The three structures, one hovering slightly above ground, with their accompanying chimneys or silos, evoke old barns, quaint cottages, or mini-shelters. Their lack of functionality, including an absence of doors and windows, is both alarming and sad.

Individual works by Rochelle Rubinstein consist of printed, painted and carved wood panels depicting imaginary villages. Here, ideas and concerns about the home extend to the communities that shape us. Issues of privacy, alienation, and claustrophobia permeate these environments, where Sherpa villages morph into suburbia, straw bale cottages into concrete bunkers.

Lanny Shereck has created painted and collage works of architectural and building debris, referring to the materials, methods and values with which we shape our homes. This work evokes the messy processes of destruction and construction that somehow give form to our quest for habitation.

Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Thursday, September 8, 2011 from 6-8 pm.

Last Chance to see Lanny Shereck's and Yvonne Singer's Exhibitions

This weekend is your last chance to see the current exhibitions at Loop Gallery:

   Yvonne Singer Gone Missing

 

    Lanny Shereck  In Between  

          
Gallery hours this weekend are:
Friday, May 14, 1-5pm
Saturday, May 15, 1-5pm
Sunday, May 16, 1-4pm

Video of Question and Answer Session with Yvonne Singer and Lanny Shereck

If you missed Saturday's Question and Answer session with Yvonne Singer and Lanny Shereck faciliated by William Huffman and Ronni Rosenberg at Loop Gallery, don't despair. Click on this LINK to see a clip filmed by Ester Pugliese.

Lanny Shereck's In Between & Yvonne Singer's Gone Missing exhibitions run until Sunday, May 16th.

Question and Answer Session with Lanny Shereck and Yvvonne Singer

Join us for a Question & Answer session at Loop Gallery this Saturday, May 8th at 3pm.    

Question & Answer Session:
Lanny Shereck & Yvonne Singer
Saturday, May 8th, 3 PM
Moderated by William Huffman and Ronni Rosenberg.
 
William Huffman is an arts administrator, curator and educator. He is currently the Associate Director of the Toronto Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council Foundation. He holds teaching positions with the University of Toronto, Fanshawe College and Toronto School of Art. His past curatorial initiatives include several traveling exhibitions: Aurora: A Survey of New Media Work from Finland (Canada/USA); Head Frame for the 2001 Biennale di Venezia (Italy); Stephen Andrews: the 1st part of the 2nd half (France/Italy/Canada); and traductions (Montréal). Huffman was selected by the Ambassade de France au Canada to curate La Grande Expérience for Toronto's inaugural Nuit Blanche and the Mixage: Marseille-Toronto exchange initiative.

Ronni Rosenberg has had a practice in art, design and architecture. She is currently Associate Dean at Sheridan College in the School of Animation Arts and Design where she manages joint programs with University of Toronto Mississauga and performing arts. Rosenberg holds a BA in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto, an MFA in Printmaking and Photography from the Pratt Institute, and a Master of Architecture from State University of New York at Buffalo.

Yvonne Singer is a practicing artist with an active national and international exhibition record.  Professor Singer is tenured faculty in the Department of Visual Arts, York University and was Graduate Program Director in Visual Arts from 2003-2009. She is currently on sabbatical.

Lanny Shereck  is an artist and art teacher working in acrylic and oil paint and photographic collage to create images of urban life.  Shereck has been a member of Loop for 3 years and is represented by The Fran Hill Gallery in Toronto. Shereck has been an art educator for 30 years.

Lanny Shereck's In Between & Yvonne Singer's Gone Missing exhibitions run until Sunday, May 16th.

Lanny Shereck at Loop Gallery

Lanny Shereck's exhibition entitled In Between is currently on display at Loop Gallery. This new body of work started as a search for in between spaces where people don’t tend to look.  Shereck noticed the spaces between buildings on the side streets of the Lower Annex where he lives and works. These spaces revealed a hidden world of garages, gardens, coach houses, fences and the flotsam of domestic life. Some of Shereck’s early work – particularly the Pedestrian series – dealt with the theme of watching and targeting individuals as they went about their business on the streets of Toronto; this new work is also a bit intrusive and odd. Shereck walks close to private homes, and takes pictures of these less public, more private spaces; often experiencing the same discomfort he did when taking people’s photographs on the street without permission.

What has drawn Shereck to these particular images, aside from the narrative concerns of public and private spaces, are formal concerns of design, colour and light. As a painter and sculptor, Shereck brings together the constructive nature of sculpture with questions about the nature of painting.  Using collage as a way to construct a painting with wood and board pieces of flat shape and colour, Shereck creates a relief with the painterly effect of close up abstraction; upon standing back, the image both flattens and gains clarity.

Another aspect of this new work is the repetition of images. The spaces are all different and although they share many common features, each one is a unique and real space built around a shared social, environmental, and architectural setting.  Each space can be interpreted formally and narratively in a unique way.

Lanny Shereck is an artist and art teacher working in acrylic and oil paint and using photographic collage to create images of urban life in Toronto, Montreal, Havana and Mexico City.  Shereck’s work, although based in realism, explores the relationship between perception and abstraction. This is expressed through the experience of standing close to the work and seeing formal shapes and colours and then standing back from the work and seeing the emerging image come into focus.  Shereck has been a member of Loop for three years and is represented by The Fran Hill Gallery in Toronto. Shereck has been an art educator for thirty years teaching painting, sculpture, drawing, ceramics and art history.

Lanny Shereck will speak about his work during a Question & Answer Session at the gallery on Saturday, May 8th at 3pm. 

Photos from the Opening Reception for Yvonne Singer's and Lanny Shereck's Exhibition at Loop Gallery

Lanny Shereck and Yvonne Singer at Loop Gallery

Loop Gallery is pleased to announce exhibitions by loop members Lanny Shereck entitled In Between and Yvonne Singer entitled Gone Missing.

Lanny Shereck’s In Between is a new series started as a search for in between spaces where people don’t tend to look.  These spaces revealed a hidden world of garages, gardens, coach houses, fences and the flotsam of domestic life.  Some of Shereck’s early work dealt with the theme of documenting individuals as they went about their business on the streets of Toronto; this new work is also a bit intrusive and odd. Shereck walks close to private homes, and takes pictures of these less public spaces; often experiencing the same discomfort he did when taking people’s photographs on the street without permission.

Lanny Shereck is an artist and art teacher working in acrylic and oil paint and photographic collage to create images of urban life.  Shereck has been a member of Loop for three years and is represented by The Fran Hill Gallery in Toronto. Shereck has been an art educator for 30 years.

Yvonne Singer's exhibition Gone Missing is an installation consisting of two elements; a series of neon sentences and a video travelogue with images from Paris, Venice, Berlin and London.

Through a series of sentence fragments produced in neon, and the flashing images of travel, Gone Missing suggests narratives of memory, loss and longing. The words produced in neon and the impressionistic wordless images of travel express the ephemeral and fragmented nature of memory. They allude to clues to an unrevealed mystery about personal identity. The use of neon to represent conversational language reflects Singer's interest in language and subjectivity.  There is an inherent tension between the iconic postcard travel images, the familiarity of the neon sign as the language of advertising and the private thoughts suggested in Gone Missing.

Yvonne Singer is a practicing artist with an active national and international exhibition record.  Professor Singer is tenured faculty in the Department of Visual Arts, York University and was Graduate Program Director in Visual Arts from 2003-2009. She is currently on sabbatical.

Please join the artists in celebrating the opening reception on Thursday, April 22nd from 6-8 pm.  Yvonne Singer will be present on Saturday, April 24th from 2 – 5 pm.   Lanny Shereck and Yvonne Singer will speak about their work in a Question and Answer Session on Saturday, May 8th at 3pm.