Copping, DeMooy at Inaugural Triennial, Art Gallery of Peterborough

The Art Gallery of Peterborough is celebrating their Inaugural Triennial, March 9 to April 29, 2012.

  Brad Copping and Caroline DeMooy have work included in the Triennial.

Brad Copping, Level Conversation, 2005, H 150 cm x D 11 cm x W 28 cm (variable)
glass, vinyl tubing, water

 Brad Copping, Raindays, 2001 H124 x W12 x D12cm
hotworked and carved glass, glass tubing, wood, metal leaf, brass

Caroline DeMooy: Reminiscence, 2011, oil on board, 54"x60"

Here's what Gil McElroy (March 20, 2012, Akimblog) has to say:

"Over at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, they’ve just opened their Inaugural Triennial Exhibition, focusing on Peterborough-area artists. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that, of course, if this show is at all representative of what’s happening aesthetically in the area, a heck of a lot of artists are working two-dimensionally. There are a lot of paintings and drawings here. So, as a minority-report kind of person, I’ll focus on some of the things – that is, the objects – in the show, like Brad Copping’s work. You could call him a glass artist, but that doesn’t really do justice to what he’s up to. Copping has two works included here, one of which is a wall-mounted piece entitled Level Conversation. It’s by no means a recent work, but still good to see. Two clear drinking glasses affixed to the wall at slightly different heights are connected with one another by a long clear tube the sags down to the floor and is filled with water. There’s water in the glasses as well, more in the slightly lower one, but the top of which is even with the water in the slightly higher glass. It’s a level, of course, a version of a working tool elegantly and simply reimagined. Kudos."

Caroline DeMooy in the studio

A video by Jasper Savage showing Caroline DeMooy at work  in her studio in rural Ontario, preparing for her recent show at KWT Contemporary, "Visible World". (music credit: Sigur Ros)

Installation Shots: McCall, Britton and Selected Works Group Show

 

One last look at our Exhibitions for April, 2011. 

Starting in the Lower Gallery with  Kai McCall: "The Weightlessness"

 

 

 

 And now, up the stairs to the Mezzanine Gallery and Kelvin Britton: "That and This"

  

On to the final gallery...

The view into the Upper Gallery, Group Show of Selected Works by Gallery Artists.

Paul Dignan painting in foreground, Khang Pham New marble sculpture in background.

       Two Caroline DeMooy's flanking a Kieran Brent.

Annie Tung: three new spoon sculptures

Three Pearl Van Geest paintings.

A Kelvin Britton "Rose" painting, sculptures by Svava Juliusson, and a Lauren Nurse self-portrait.

And, tucked away in the reference corner, a Jan Ollner painting and another Svava Juliusson sculpture.

Caroline DeMooy Interviewed by Lori Starr

Lori Starr, art historian and Executive Director of the Koffler Arts Centre, interviewed Caroline deMooy at the gallery last Saturday morning. The interview was aired on ArtSync TV, and we are told that it will become part of a boxed set of interviews of contemporary Canadian artists (in production) which will be made available as a teaching tool for art educators at the secondary and post secondary levels. We are thrilled to know that such an initiative is underway, and we'll post more information about the project as it becomes available.  For now, you can watch deMooy's interview here.

JP Robinson: ArtSync Interview on Opening night march 5, 2011

John Paul Robinson has recently been interviewed by ArtSync about the exhibition "New Work" which will be on exhibit here at KWTcontemporary from March 5 - 26, 2011. You can watch the interview in which Robinson speaks about the themes in his work: time, space, nature, science and personal mythologies, here.

“The work in this new series explores the connections between the sublime nature of natural phenomena, the subconscious, and the fields of physics and biology.  The pieces themselves are part of a set of metaphorical symbols that I am building to describe my experience, my place, and my life, to myself.”

Born in 1954 in Toronto, Ontario, John grew up in cottage country 2 hours north of the city. He was first introduced to glass while studying Child Care at Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario. In 1980, after working with children and then alcoholics for 6 years, he built his first glass studio with a friend, who had studied glass at Georgian. In 1982 he was hired by the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, where he worked as a glass studio technician and instructor until 1998. His work has been exhibited internationally, and is represented in public collections such as the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Museum of American Glass. John is presently living, working and teaching in Montreal.

deMooy, Robinson and Langstroth: Opening March 5, 2011

 

We are pleased to present three exhibitions of new works by three contemporary artists, each working in a Modernist vein.

Lower Gallery
"Visible World": Caroline deMooy
With this new series of oil paintings, deMooy continues to explore abstractions which are layered and complex, and suggestive of urban architecture and street scapes. DeMooy says:"The work is not based on any specific idea, but rather a feeling or thought that I have about the essence of the world around me. Depending on time of day, climate and seasonal conditions, my experience and my perception, nature provides me with a symphony of information that becomes my palette- much like notes in music. The multi-layered world, with its endless possibilities and outcomes presents a vast riddle of visual, emotional, psychological and spiritual information. These paintings represent the architecture of this complex survey."

Mezzanine Gallery

"New Work": John Paul Robinson
Robinson's latest sculptural works in glass are elegant, arcing and streamlined forms, suspended from polished metal wall mounts. Robinson says: "Science and technology are revealing a universe that is completely counter intuitive. Solid mass turns out to be a lot of energy and a lot of space and what time it is depends on how fast you are going. My work is an attempt to build a set of symbols that describe this reality. The pieces combine aspects of natural phenomena we grasp intuitively, pebbles in a pond, with those we don’t particle – wave duality. I am attempting to build a functioning model/myth of my world."

Upper Gallery 

"Between Lines": Chris Langstroth 

According to Toronto based art writer and educator, Betty-Ann Jordan, "Chris Langstroth's semi abstracts ostensibly depict people in crowds, but really, the main attraction is his patchwork of streaky, thick-as-boiled-frosting acrylic paint. The artist works intensely and swiftly while his pigment is still wet, laying down his colour swatches with a small trowel-like palette knife and plasterer's scrapers. About his self-appointed challenge to blend abstraction and figure painting, Langstroth says: "I don't want my paintings to be still - I like them noisy."