THE ROOM AND ITS INHABITANTS
17 Oct - 23 Nov 2013
Opening on 17 October and running to 23 November, the gallery is pleased to present THE ROOM AND ITS INHABITANTS, a group show organized by Patrick Howlett.
Taking its title from a 1921 Paul Klee painting, this group show brings together a diverse selection of paintings into a single fold. In THE ROOM AND ITS INHABITANTS, form and content is fused by an assembly of Canadian and international artists: Robert Bordo, Merlin James, Allison Katz, Sandra Meigs, Rebecca Morris, Kim Neudorf, Justin Stephens, and Roger White. What links these artists’ works might be a sort of compositional sensibility: how parts are arranged within a spatial delimiter, how a mark or shape defines and undoes a sense of depth or inclusion within a whole. Accordingly, terms like ‘abstract’ or ‘figurative’ are of little use. As Howlett writes, “All the work is painting that foregrounds the use of specific qualities of format and medium in ways that dovetail subject and object with complex and engaging results.”
Taking its title from a 1921 Paul Klee painting, this group show brings together a diverse selection of paintings into a single fold. In THE ROOM AND ITS INHABITANTS, form and content is fused by an assembly of Canadian and international artists: Robert Bordo, Merlin James, Allison Katz, Sandra Meigs, Rebecca Morris, Kim Neudorf, Justin Stephens, and Roger White. What links these artists’ works might be a sort of compositional sensibility: how parts are arranged within a spatial delimiter, how a mark or shape defines and undoes a sense of depth or inclusion within a whole. Accordingly, terms like ‘abstract’ or ‘figurative’ are of little use. As Howlett writes, “All the work is painting that foregrounds the use of specific qualities of format and medium in ways that dovetail subject and object with complex and engaging results.”