Q & A with Jane Lowbeer, April 19th

Q & A with Loop Artist Jane Lowbeer and Moderated by Rebecca Diedrichs : Sunday, April 19th

Please join Jane Lowbeer for a Q & A with moderator Rebecca Diedrichs
Loop Gallery
Sunday April 19th from 2-4pm

Jane Lowbeer         Three Men

Jane Lowbeer                   Man Walking Forward

Adrian Fish and David Holt show opening April 25th

April 25 – May 17, 2015 Opening Reception: April 25, 2015, 2-5 p.m. 

Adrian Fish The Aquaphilia Project IV: Critical Infrastructure 

In the fourth iteration of The Aquaphilia Project entitled Critical Infrastructure, photographer Adrian Fish investigates contemporary municipal wastewater treatment facilities. Our curiosity as to the fate of what happens after we flush a toilet or turn on a tap is limited. Seldom do we think about how different the nature of contemporary urban life would be without water and wastewater treatment. The incredible investment required in increasingly advanced technologies to safely neutralize organic matter in the 21st century requires facilities rarely seen. Fish's interest is in probing the aesthetics of the critical infrastructure upon which we are entirely dependent. 



David Holt Arcadia 

Holt’s small-scale paintings playfully depict idyllic landscapes, bathers, and views of ancient architecture. His inspirations include 17th century Italianate landscapes, ruins, and mythological paintings, as well as late Edo era landscapes by Japanese literati painters. 

A recipient of a painting grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and an artist’s residency at the Ragdale Foundation, Holt has exhibited extensively and taught for many years in the US, where he chaired the art department at Marymount College (later of Fordham University) in Tarrytown, New York. Since 2005 he has lived and worked in Toronto, teaching art at Upper Canada College.


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

Don't Miss Q & A with loop Artists' Sheryl Dudley and Jane Lowbeer on April 19, 2015

Sheryl Dudley Time and Again

 

As a follow-up to her 2014 show, Between Here and There, Dudley continues to mine generations of family history discovered while preparing for a move. 

A stack of old boxes found in a closet reveal history, nature, and likeness in random photos dated from the 1920s through to the early 1960s. 

While many of the images she uncovered were documentary evidence of events and milestones, Dudley chooses to focus on candid images and casual family gatherings. These natural interactions allow the subjects to shine through with authenticity. She re-photographs the originals and alters each in a way to suggest the marking of time and erosion of memory. Finally, the images are ‘laid to rest’ in a forested setting derived from a series the artist shot in the Canadian Shield. 

March 28-April 19, 2015 Opening Reception: March 28, 2015, 2-5 PM
                                         Q & A: Sunday, April 19, 2015

Jane LowBeer Walking 

LowBeer's new series of oil paintings is a discourse in animating the landscape. A palette of greys, purples and greens, and the construction of push-and-pull render the figure over fields and bush. She plays with dimension; some paintings even wrap around a corner, or read sequentially like a book, as they defy the rectangle. 


This is LowBeer's fifth exhibition at loop. She studied printmaking at the venerated Atelier 17 in Paris and her work has won numerous prizes. Her art is found in private and public collections in New York, Paris, Montreal and Toronto including London's Victoria & Albert Museum and the Bibliothèque National de Paris, France. 

loop Thanks: AUDAXlaw Sumac.com 
loop Gallery1273 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 

Loop Gallery Presents New Work by Artists Sheryl Dudley: Time and Time Again and Jane Lowbeer: Walking

March 28-April 19, 2015 Opening Reception: March 28, 2015, 2-5 PM
                                         Q & A: Sunday, April 19, 2015

Sheryl Dudley Time and Again

 

As a follow-up to her 2014 show, Between Here and There, Dudley continues to mine generations of family history discovered while preparing for a move.

A stack of old boxes found in a closet reveal history, nature, and likeness in random photos dated from the 1920s through to the early 1960s.

While many of the images she uncovered were documentary evidence of events and milestones, Dudley chooses to focus on candid images and casual family gatherings. These natural interactions allow the subjects to shine through with authenticity. She re-photographs the originals and alters each in a way to suggest the marking of time and erosion of memory. Finally, the images are ‘laid to rest’ in a forested setting derived from a series the artist shot in the Canadian Shield. 

March 28-April 19, 2015 Opening Reception: March 28, 2015, 2-5 PM
                                         Q & A: Sunday, April 19, 2015

Jane LowBeer Walking 

LowBeer's new series of oil paintings is a discourse in animating the landscape. A palette of greys, purples and greens, and the construction of push-and-pull render the figure over fields and bush. She plays with dimension; some paintings even wrap around a corner, or read sequentially like a book, as they defy the rectangle.


This is LowBeer's fifth exhibition at loop. She studied printmaking at the venerated Atelier 17 in Paris and her work has won numerous prizes. Her art is found in private and public collections in New York, Paris, Montreal and Toronto including London's Victoria & Albert Museum and the Bibliothèque National de Paris, France. 

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 

Check out Images of Sandra Gregson and Mary Catherine Newcomb’s March 22nd Guided Gallery Visit

Gareth Bate and Carolyn Dinsmore talk about their work!

Two new shows to liven up the dead of winter

February 28 – March 22, 2015 Opening Reception: February 28, 2015, 2-5 p.m.
Guided Visit: Sunday, March 22, 2015, 2 p.m.

Sandra Gregson Erebus & Terror

Sandra Gregson’s initial idea for this exhibition was a consideration of fear and how it is shaped by culture, for example, fairy tales of ‘big, bad wolves’. Whilst researching, Gregson lived for a year in Edinburgh, Scotland and her research about fear and wolves led to an investigation of topics such as the Scottish landscape and land use, legends and children’s stories, wilderness, rewilding, British explorers and settlers in Canada, including Franklin’s search for the NorthWest Passage on his ships, presciently named, Erebus and Terror. This is Gregson’s second exhibition at loop Gallery. During the past year, she participated in an artists' residency in Portugal and her video works were screened at Cinecycle in Toronto.


Mary Catherine Newcomb Lucy in the Dark

In Lucy in the Dark, Mary Catherine Newcomb continues to probe the ways in which we perceive and construct models of reality. She frames the concept of blindness in terms of perceptual bias, and/or a willed/imposed mechanism for psychological survival. By contrast, Newcomb considers being in the dark as indicative of both a loss of control and a state of potential.

Mary Catherine Newcomb’s work has been recognized with several grants from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council, as well as prizes from various organizations. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and in Germany. She currently resides in Kitchener, Ontario and teaches in the Visual and Creative Arts program at Sheridan College in Oakville.

The artist gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council.

                                                    a visit with Sandra Gregson

Any studio goals for 2015? 

Any new material you've started playing with in your studio? 

I'm finishing up work for a show which opens at Loop at the end of February; I'm very excited to start a new project after that. I've worked with drawing, sculpture and video for several years however I have this desire to start painting! During a residency this past summer in Portugal, I used water-based oil paint to make the images for a stop camera video and loved using paint. I was seduced by the texture of the paint and the intensity of the colours. 

I'm looking forward to process of clearing up my studio, putting away the research resources, preparatory work, and materials I've been using. I intend to empty my studio completely to ready for what I see as a big shift in my work. I'm curious how I'll approach painting: if I'll work in series, or integrate it again with video.

  How do you know when a work is finished?

I often spend a long time on work, often 'practicing' the work before starting it by doing maquettes or sketches, then intensely working to make it. Then I'll pause with the work, leaving it not quite finished in order to reflect on it. I don't hurry to finish work. I don't like the feeling of having to let it go so will linger, reluctantly completing work, changing details, refining parts. 

When I think the work is close to finished, I  take the work out of my studio and put it in a room in my house to look at it in a different context, to see how it holds up outside of the studio context. If the work feels self reliant, if it presents itself as its own entity, I know it's done. It's not finished if it doesn't feel convincing and I'll take it back to the studio to rework it.

What is your most important tool as an artist? 


Because of sculpture and video work, I have used a variety of tools. My most important tool, and most sustaining for me however, is a pencil. There is something so satisfying about the sound and feel of a pencil on paper. I particularly like a 2B pencil when it has been used and sharpened several times so that it is about a third of its original size.  
 
Using a pencil and paper is my way of thinking about what I want to make or do. It's how I work out ideas, visualize work. I usually draw a combination of images with words to start the process of shaping ideas into form. Later, if I feel stumped by a work, I'll go back and draw it in order to rethink it, and with pencil and paper it is so much easier to change, rethink, redo because it is so immediate. 





What are you listening to in the studio these days?
  
I like silence in the studio because it helps me concentrate ad become immersed in the work. Sometimes I listen to radio but only when I'm at a stage in the work which involves repetitious tasks; it's usually cbc that I listen to - music and talk shows.

 Thanks Sandra for the studio visit!

Plan to see her upcoming show at loop:
Erebus & Terror  February 28 to March 22, 2015
Opening Saturday February 28 from 2 to 5 p.m.
Gallery visit with artist Sunday March 22 from 2 to 3 p.m.
 

or visit her website at www.sandragregson.ca

Maybe it’s the minus15 degree temperature that has me thinking about hot houses, but if you have ever walked through botanical gardens with interconnected glass and iron ribbed structures like the ones in Glasgow, you’ll know that as you move from room to room,  you move from one climate to another.

Where am I going with this? Lanny Shereck has a show on at Queen Specific, Dufflet’s window gallery. He has stacked a series of small paintings and  attached them to a narrow  board so they are interconnected like rooms. It reads like a schematic diagram of the aforementioned greenhouses, except that we are looking at paintings of artists working in their studios. Within the intense studio clutter, we see that exotic specimen - the artist - almost camouflaged as he or she works in the unique microclimate of his or her own making - the habitat essential ( sorry can’t resist this ) for the flowering of their  creations. 

“Studio Visits” is on until March 3
Lanny Shereck and Libby Hague are 2 of the 30 plus  members of the  Loop collective in Toronto.