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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