Kieran Brent: "New Paintings" extended to Oct. 15

 

Kieran Brent (left) with "Will": 2011, oil on canvas, 48"x48"

and (you guessed it!) model Will (right)

Virtual tour of the exhibition:

 

Rachael Wong: "Markings" extended to Oct.15

We are happy to announce that Rachael Wong's Markings has been extended for two weeks, until October 15.

R.M. Vaughan had this to say about the installation:

"Winner of the 2010 RBC Glass Award, Wong twists the hard liquid around her little finger like a besotted lover. Seashells and single-cell organisms, intestines and seed pods, all captured in pristinely painted and polished glass, bounce off the gallery walls in a mad cascade. Let’s give her the 2011 prize too."

Wong's artistic practise extends beyond glass. Drawing and printmaking are also an important piece of the puzzle: witness her shimmering, gorgeously complex digital prints on aluminum.

 

Brad Copping: Untitled (Black Canoes), 2001

Brad Copping, Untitled (Black Canoes),  2001
blown and acid etched glass, oil stain, wood, paper, 175 x 76 x 20

Brent, Lafrance, Lavoie and Wong open Sept 8, 2011

KWT contemporary presents three  exhibitions of new work featuring Kieran Brent, David Lafrance, Alexis Lavoie and Rachael Wong

Vernissage: Thursday September 8,  from 5 to 7 p.m.
September 8 to October 1, 2011

624 Richmond St. W., Toronto

   Lower Gallery
Kieran Brent: New Paintings

 Kieran Brent, "Untitled 1" 2011 (oil on canvas, 48" x 48")

This is the first solo exhibition for Kieran Brent, a gifted young artist who is a recent graduate of OCAD. Brent explains: "Contradiction is an important aspect of my work.  In my paintings I am exploring the boundaries and tensions between paint and flesh, abstraction and representation, stillness and motion, figure and ground." 
Kieran Brent is represented by KWT contemporary.

Mezzanine Gallery

Rachael Wong: "Markings"

 Rachael Wong, "Pile 2", 2011 (blown glass)

For her first solo show at KWT contemporary, Rachael Wong presents a large wall installation of glass sculpture and painting, smaller glass sculptures, and a series of digital prints on aluminum.  She holds a BFA in Glass from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary and an MFA in Sculpture/Dimensional Studies from Alfred University in New York State.  
Rachael Wong is the 2010 winner of the RBC Glass Award.
Rachael Wong is represented by KWT contemporary. 

Upper Gallery
Alexis Lavoie and David Lafrance: "Nature Deficit"

In their first exhibition at KWT contemporary, visiting artists Alexis Lavoie and David Lafrance present a series of new "landscape" paintings which explore themes of fragmentation and human desire, in collision with the natural world. Both artists are Montreal-based.

  Alexis Lavoie, "En Pièces (14)", 2011 (oil on canvas, 48"x48")

 David Lafrance, "Dépeupler", 2010 (oil on canvas, 48"x42") 

Alexis Lavoie is the 2010 winner of the RBC Painting Award, and is a recent graduate of UQAM. He states: " In "Nature Deficit",  I create zones of uncertainty, places that seem to be both the result of fragmentation and tension between several worlds. These psychological landscapes give rise to a troubled impression of lack and disconnect. Through the traces and scattered remains of past events the nature of these ambiguous locations constantly eludes us. What remains is only a threatening atmosphere, a sense of doubt and emptiness."

David Lafrance holds a B.F.A. from Concordia University, where he was awarded the Guido Molinari Prize. He is well known and respected in the Montreal art scene, as a prolific artist, working in painting, drawing and sculpture, and also as a musician and composer. Of his work in this exhibition, he states: " Nature Deficit Disorder is a contemporary urban affliction. We lack authentic experience with nature;  "wild" nature, but also the ritual and celebrations of "deep" human nature. In this context, my paintings could be described as highly delusional and broken landscapes with the elements of nature and culture locked in a strange and struggling balance."

Dagmara Genda @ 3rd Ward

Dagmara Genda Presents: Building Disaster


Friday, August 19, 7-10 pm 
195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 
FREE Admission

Dagmara Genda’s work is massive yet intimate, Soviet and American, insistently flat with a resonance achieved through technical ingenuity and a startling story-telling force.
Come celebrate the first NYC show of Dagmara Genda, the winner of the 3rd Ward Winter Open Call. Born in Communist Poland and a self-described nomad of Canada, Genda creates consuming cityscapes that tell of blunt, brutal histories with an uncommon delicacy.
Building Disaster will feature a large-scale, site-specific installation made of intricate hand-cut glossy vinyl that will take over an entire hallway in 3rd Ward. Other works are achieved through repeatedly layering rounds of wallpaper-like painting and drawing. Both painstaking methodologies confuse spatial relationships and create a visual tension with texture and a weighty world turned upside-down. By juxtaposing poverty and opulence, destruction and elegance, Genda has created a cacophonous riot that thrills.
Featuring DJs, live accordion music from Matt Dallow, and complimentary drinks and pickles from Spear's Spears.

RSVP at www.3rdward.com/rsvp


Dagmara Genda is represented by KWT contemporary, Toronto, Canada

August Vacation, Fall Schedule

We're on Vacation

KWT contemporary is closed for the month of August. We'll be checking e-mails and voice mails from time to time, but please don't be disappointed if we do not get back to you with our usual efficiency.

Looking Ahead to Autumn:

September Exhibitions
Opening Reception Thursday September 8 from 5 to 7 pm
Lower gallery:
Kieran Brent: New Paintings
Mezzanine Gallery:
Rachael Wong, winner of the 2010 RBC Glass Award
Upper Gallery:
Two visiting artists from Montreal
Alexis Lavoie, winner of the 2010 RBC Painting Award, and David LaFrance: New Paintings

October Exhibitions
At KWT: Heather Nicol: Installation. Marina Black: Photography
At Art Toronto (Toronto International Art Fair) Find us in the NEXT section, along the west wall
At UpArt, Gladstone Hotel: Svava Thordis Juliusson and Lauren Nurse: Installation
At Art With Heart/Casey House Auction: Alexis LaVoie and Lauren Nurse

November Exhibitions
Lower Gallery:
Alex D'Arcy: New Paintings
Upper Gallery:
Jan Ollner: New Paintings

Virtual Tour of Summer Group Show

Jan Ollner Woman Seated on a Bed, 2011, acrylic on board, 30x36

Jan Ollner.... Pearl Van Geest, Shift, 2010, o/c, 60x48

Moira Clarke, Ambient Sonnet, 2006 a/c 48x60

Paul Dignan, Untitled, 2011 a/c, 60x60 and Lauren Nurse Untitled  (deersheds, rubber) 2010

Lauren Nurse

Paul Dignan, Untitled, 2005, a/c, 36x36

Alex D'Arcy, Snowblind, 2010, o/c, 51x39

Svava Thordis Juliusson, Esjublatt, 2011, plastic cable ties

Paula Savasta's installation of 69 small paintings (winner of William Huffman Award)

Jay Wilson, Reckless Abandon, 2011, toothpicks, safety matches, 76x36

Two prints by Daryl Vocat, painting by Cheryl Ruddock and print by Liz Parkinson

Paul Dignan painting, with Jay Wilson installation in background

Carolyn DeMooy painting, in background: video still by David Frankovich and digitized polaroids Paula Savasta

Heather Nicol, Salon Installation, 2010

Monoprint with flocking by Liz Parkinson and o/c diptych by Fiona Crangle