Robert Wiens
06 Mar - 12 Apr 2014
Birch Log, 2013
watercolour on paper
21 x 85 inches
watercolour on paper
21 x 85 inches
Cedar Log, 2013
watercolour on paper
21 x 85 inches
watercolour on paper
21 x 85 inches
Maple Log 1, 2013
watercolour on paper
21 x 98 inches
watercolour on paper
21 x 98 inches
Maple Log 2, 2013
watercolour on paper
21 x 88 inches
watercolour on paper
21 x 88 inches
Birch Log, 2013 [detail]
Robert Wiens
6 March to 12 April
Toronto, ON – opening on Thursday, 6 March from 7 to 9 p.m., and continuing through to 12 April 2014, Susan Hobbs Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Robert Wiens.
Since 1996, Robert Wiens has painted meticulous, life-size studies of tree trunks in watercolour. For this exhibition he returns to that series with new paintings that depict different logs collected from various locales: a hardwood forest near Algonquin Park, a conservation area close to the artist’s home in Picton Ontario, and the artist’s backyard. Unlike the subjects of his previous works, the surfaces of these logs are marred with signs of decay: peeling bark, and patches of moss and lichen. With the previous works, they comprise an ongoing taxonomy of trees inhabiting North America’s eastern forest of North America.
Robert Wiens was born in Leamington, Ontario in 1953, and currently lives in Picton. He has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Micro/Macro at Gallery Stratford, Stratford, and Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, the nationally-touring exhibition Projections, and Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. He has recently completed commissioned sculptures for the Open Corridor Festival in Windsor, Ontario and for the Forest Art Project in Haliburton. His work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto.
6 March to 12 April
Toronto, ON – opening on Thursday, 6 March from 7 to 9 p.m., and continuing through to 12 April 2014, Susan Hobbs Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Robert Wiens.
Since 1996, Robert Wiens has painted meticulous, life-size studies of tree trunks in watercolour. For this exhibition he returns to that series with new paintings that depict different logs collected from various locales: a hardwood forest near Algonquin Park, a conservation area close to the artist’s home in Picton Ontario, and the artist’s backyard. Unlike the subjects of his previous works, the surfaces of these logs are marred with signs of decay: peeling bark, and patches of moss and lichen. With the previous works, they comprise an ongoing taxonomy of trees inhabiting North America’s eastern forest of North America.
Robert Wiens was born in Leamington, Ontario in 1953, and currently lives in Picton. He has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include Micro/Macro at Gallery Stratford, Stratford, and Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, the nationally-touring exhibition Projections, and Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. He has recently completed commissioned sculptures for the Open Corridor Festival in Windsor, Ontario and for the Forest Art Project in Haliburton. His work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto.