Headbones Gallery presents Stanzie Tooth Surfacing Ancient Scions -
2011 Oil on canvas, 50x52” |
April
26 - May 26, 2012 Opening
Reception Thursday,
April 26 @ 6-9pm Stanzie Tooth lives
and works in Toronto where she paints sheltered glades that are more akin to
Manet’s garden than the gritty cement-scape where they are created. When
it is copasetic to interrupt the fecundity, she peoples these bucolic
settings with vague figures, coming, going or sinking into the fronds with
relaxed simpatico. Tooth uses teal, magenta, perse and the rare thalos -
colours that veer to the more refined supernal shades of the primaries - as
if conjuring the better side of life. Surfacing, an exhibition of
paintings and paper works as lush as a blousy spring, will be showing in
Headbones Gallery adding bloom to the season. Stanzie Tooth will be in attendance
for the opening. |
Drawers Gallery presents Ruth Waldman Mellifluous Untitled 057, 2011, Colored pencil on paper, 9 x 12” |
April
26 - May 26, 2012 Opening
Reception Thursday,
April 26 @ 6-9pm Hailing from New York, Ruth Waldman
charms with biological imagery as she tells tales with a visual vocabulary
set in a surrealist space. Biomorphic creatures cavort with animated
vegetation, wisping and wending their way across the virgin expanse of pure
white paper. The coloured-pencil fantasy describes mutations between
the floral and sinuous. It is the fronds and ferns of woodlands translated
into a more designed order than the divine had devised. In bright pastels,
wriggly things play within a dreamy perspective as Seuss-like illustrated
botanicals, futuristic aliens and beings of otherness are distilled through
tubes to burst into bloom. |
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