 | | Barry Allikas, “The Land of Nod,” Acrylic on canvas, 52” x 52”, 2010. |  | | Barry Allikas, “Memento Mori,” Acrylic on canvas, 52” x 52”, 2010. |
Barry Allikas“New Body of Painting”
The West Gallery June 5th – August 21st, 2010
Opening reception Thursday June 3rd, 6–9 PM
ANGELL GALLERY is pleased to present the upcoming show in the West Gallery, New Body of Painting, by Barry Allikas. This will be Barry’s first exhibition with Angell Gallery and will run from Saturday, June 5 to Saturday, August 21, 2010. An opening night reception will be held on Thursday, June 3, 6 – 9pm. For many years Montreal painter Barry Allikas has been directly engaged with the formal language of the Plasticiens school; i.e. hard-edge, geometric abstraction crafted to the highest standard of Formalist perfection. But, although speaking with the vocabulary of Guido Molinari and Yves Gaucher, Allikas’ tone and diction sounds a different note. Swerving from their purist idealism and stripped-down aesthetics by adding an element of chance to his creative process, he has also altered the traditional formula by adding a symbolic, deeply embedded element of figuration. Completing his revamp of High-Modern non-objective strategy by deploying curving lines, lyrical forms and Pop colors, the recent paintings are far afield of their antecedents.
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 | | John Kennedy, “Untitled,” Acrylic on panel, 70” x 48”, 2010. |
John Kennedy“Juggernaut”
The East Gallery June 5th – July 17th, 2010
Opening reception Thursday April 29th, 6–9 PM
ANGELL GALLERY is pleased to present John Kennedy’s second exhibition with the gallery. Juggernaut runs from June 5th – July 17th, 2010 in the East Gallery. Layering his imagery like paint and his paint as though it possessed pictorial implications, John Kennedy is a painter’s painter. He identifies his material, the paint itself, as in its substance a powerful being; a “Juggernaut” as the show’s title suggests, exhaustively confronted in the studio day after day. But if the demands of the paint are powerful, so too is painting, as here in the person of Kennedy’s re-doubled commitment to his research. His practice is geared toward examining the possibilities he can draw from the medium, resolving them into a grammar that retains its flexibility; even as the things he says gain in legible clarity. Art and material, landscape and abstraction, knowledge and curiosity are the poles that Kennedy operates with, and between.
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 | | Aleksandra Rdest, “Explosive Embrace,” Acrylic on canvas, 60” x 46”, 2010. |
Aleksandra Rdest“Swagger and Sashay”
The Project Room June 5th – July 17th, 2010
Opening reception Thursday June 3rd, 6–9 PM
ANGELL GALLERY is pleased to present Aleksandra Rdest’s newest work in the gallery’s project room. Swagger and Sashay runs from June 5th – July 17th. Aleksandra Rdest uses a language drawn from weather patterns; inspired by sound waves, particles and cells on a microscopic level. The point of departure for these works is growth and decay; cellular division and multiplication, biological colonization. Rdest’s love affair with colour gives rise to these paintings which are created by richly layering veils of paint to form a deep surface.
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