JULIA VANDEPOLDER: Backhouse
Also featuring paintings by BRIAN HARVEY
October 12 – November 26, 2011
Opening Reception and Street Party for SHOW OFF:
Friday, Oct 21st, 7 - 10pm
Artists in attendance.
Mason design firm is hosting SHOW OFF @ the Junction where local designers & artists are being paired up with Junction shop owners to create show-stopping window display installations. Opening the same night! Exhibition continues until Oct 30th. www.mason-studio.com/showoff
Julia Vandepolder’s recent paintings are an investigation of abandoned and collapsing urban and rural architecture. She explores the intricacies and details of these spaces, focusing on the remaining structures which are often extensively patterned through weathering and decay. The rich surfaces of her paintings capitalize on the tension between representation and abstraction, inside and outside, what is hidden and what is visible. Abstract accumulations of line, colour and texture tentatively coalesce into the jagged contour of a beam, a corroded pipe or a pile of bricks. This exhibition features selected large scale works on panel as well as small studies and works on Mylar.
With a focus on Studio Art and Art History, Julia Vandepolder earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Guelph in 2009. She recently won the Founding Chairman’s Award at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (TOAE) and completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Centre. Vandepolder has been continuously exhibiting at public and private galleries across Ontario and her work is featured in several private collections. Julia Vandepolder maintains a full-time studio in Caledon.
Brian Harvey`s paintings are studies of the commonplace and the typically mundane. His subject matter includes household objects, interior spaces and urban landscapes. In his current work, Harvey focuses on “remnants” of Toronto’s neighbourhoods. Having lived a stone’s throw from the gallery, Harvey is very familiar with The Junction, a neighbourhood located in Toronto’s west end, which is featured in several of the paintings. Harvey is emotionally drawn to buildings which endure and are connected to the past; holdovers which are often ignored or forgotten about altogether. Through painting, Harvey has the opportunity to examine and study these buildings before they are gone.
Initially pursuing digital media and animation at Seneca College, Brian Harvey continued his studies in painting and drawing at Sheridan College, Toronto School of Art, The Art Centre - Central Technical School and he is currently pursuing a degree at OCAD University, Toronto. He has been exhibiting extensively for over a decade and has devoted himself to painting full-time since 2007. Brian Harvey lives and works in Toronto.
UPCOMING
Textiles Group Exhibition
Lizz Aston, Noelle Hamlyn, Pam Lobb, Dorie Millerson, Amanda Parker
Nov 30, 2011 - Jan 28, 2012
HOURS
Tues by appt.
Wednesday and Saturday 11am - 6pm
Thursday and Friday 11am - 7pm
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3148 Dundas Street West - Toronto - Ontario - M6P 2A1
(The Junction, Dundas at St. John’s Rd.)
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