DECEMBER 4th: SWIM TEAM

Cynthia Chapman
OCEAN PEARL
Oil on canvas, 30 X 24
2008

Cynthia Chapman

Emerging painter Cynthia Chapman graduated from OCAD in 2002. Moore Gallery Ltd. picked her up in 2003 after showing at the Beverly Tavern. Her fourth major exhibition at Moore Gallery is scheduled for March 2009. Chapman's paintings can be found in private and corporate collections across Canada and internationally in Germany, Italy and Holland. The prestigious Hazelton Hotel commissioned Cynthia to do a series of large paintings for the third floor corridor.

This preview of Chapman's most recent work is a taste of her true passions, medium and colour. These paintings are an insight to her inner energy. Chapman uses a wide spectrum of colours, she is not afraid of and likes to explore radical themes of colour while at the same time appreciates traditional calmer palettes. Chapman is very generous with her paint; she layers it on with a thick impasto technique. The work oozes heavy globs along a horizon weaving in and out of strategically placed tiles of solid colours. Her brush strokes are painterly, yet mechanical; she applies the paint with quick left to right gestures in order to get her expression across. Her compositions are structured perpetually, they possess a strong sense of movement while allowing the viewer to also gain stability and find comfort. Chapman's work is diverse within itself. She has a lot to keep herself busy with.




Alex D'Arcy
VARIATIONS
Oil on canvas, 40 x 36
2008


Alex D’Arcy

Alex D’Arcy is an emerging Canadian artist who lives and works in Toronto. She shows her work in Toronto and Vancouver. Her recent collection of paintings is permanently installed at Nota Bene in Toronto. She trained at the Ontario College of Art and Design and also has a degree in literature from the University of Toronto.

Alex D’Arcy’s oil paintings are urban dreamscapes, architectural labyrinths that hover on the boundary between figuration and abstraction inviting an imaginative free play between the two. Thick, saturated colour swatches float on exuberant, gestural washes creating densely painted moments. In these works, the city dissolves into a picture of airiness, movement and light.








CONCENTRICITY

Ceramics by SARA-LILA ASSELIN

November 21 - November 30



Concentricity




The ceramics in this exhibition explore the interior spaces within a form. My interest is the multiple within the singular, and using concave and convex line to define space. I begin these forms on the potters’ wheel, centering the clay in the traditional method and they progress into playful, eccentric ‘pots’. The negation of utility is not done for its’ own sake but to freely experiment with clay on a wheel. I felt the best way to view this work is head on; so hanging them on the wall is a matter of practicality and a further deviation from functional pottery.

By questioning the expectations for function and perhaps offering up some new

ones: The realm of art, design and craft are linked yet live as a dysfunctional family in the outskirts of town.




Sara-Lila Asselin