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In The Picture – Portraits of These Times – 2021

April 28 –May 30  2021   Online Only

An exhibition of contemporary works in a variety of media exploring the portrait… including the self portrait and portraits of others. Works include paintings, drawings, abstract works and photography. In a time when the selfie is everywhere, we constantly see ourselves on social media.  During covid, many people have taken to thoughtfully documenting their lives and experiences.  

It has been a difficult year for everyone, and artists have not been spared. Somehow they’ve continued to create art works during this relentless pandemic. Last March 2020, we closed to the public and were open for a brief period in the fall until we were shut down again due to another lock-down. As people deal with the stress of this new world, we see ourselves changing to adapt to the many restrictions of this virus. Over the past year, I have created a variety of exhibitions and never found a lack of artists wanting to participate and present their new works. The exhibitions have always managed to reflect the current times – complete with covid effects. During the time that people were allowed back in the gallery, they thanked us as they were happy to return to a familiar setting where they could look at artworks close-up and sense the artist behind them. We hope to open our doors to the public again in early June. It will likely take years to get back to our ‘normal’ past but it will be worth the wait!

This exhibit has been curated by Phil Anderson and is online only.

Participants Include: Albert Wisco, Anne Hoover, Arnie Lipsey, Atia Pokorny, Catharine Somerville, Courtney McKay Fairweather, Eliza Moore, Elizabeth Morales, Emma Lewis, Eva Lewarne, Gwen Tooth, Helen Melbourne, Holly Edwards, Ineke MacNab, JoAnne Maikawa, Juliana Kolesova, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Kyle Marshall, Lee McCarthy, Leena Raudvee, Linda Briskin, Margaret Stawicki, Marie Finkelstein, Patrick Carson, Paul Kilbertus, Elizabeth Greisman, and Steve Stober.

 Anne Hoover

  • Self Portrait 199′
  • Acrylic on canvas
  • 18″ x 24”
  • $350

 My practice is focused on process, and I often create multiple versions using various media. I am working to push the fine collision between traditional rendering and more abstract marks; finding abstraction within the figure and portrait.

 Anne Hoover

  • ‘Self Portrait 202’
  • Acrylic on canvas
  • 12″ x 16”
  • $150

These self portraits represent a short period in my ongoing self-portrait project where I use expressive marks while maintaining a likeness. The portraits reflect my, at times, powerful emotions – and currently, my frustration, dismay and an alien-ness of experience.

Albert Wisco

  • Self-Portrait at Sir Casimir Gzowski Park, Toronto
  • Digital

I captured this environmental self-portrait deep in winter on the shores of Lake Ontario at Sir Casimir Gzowski Park several years ago. I feel it takes on new significance as it was captured pre-pandemic, pre-masks, and pre-social distance. A year into the pandemic, how have I changed? How have we changed?

Arnie Lipsey

  • “Deconstructed”
  • 24″ X 36″
  • Acrylic on canvas
  • $2,800.00 unframed

My work focuses on the psychological legacies that link generations. I use narrative and portraiture to explore questions of identity and the hidden psychological motivations and patterns that undergird family mythologies.

Arnie Lipsey

  • “Convalescence”
  • 24” x 30”
  • Acrylic on canvas
  • $2,500.00 unframed

The work mines symbolism and nostalgia, without being either overtly symbolic or primarily nostalgic. The viewer is invited to witness the emotional specificity of someone else’s family, and then relate it to the mythologies of their own.

Atia Pokorny

  • Invisible Woman
  • 2020
  • 14″x11″, unframed
  • archival inkjet print, 1/5
  • $250

The pandemic made me reconsider what exposure or the lack of it means both in physical and in emotional terms. My self portraits explore these questions including the issue of social invisibility of older women.

Atia Pokorny

  • Say it with Flowers
  • 2020
  •  14″x11″, unframed
  •  archival inkjet print, 1/5
  •  $250

But what about invisibility as a source of power? For me, less exposure can open the door to creative freedom.

Courtney Fairweather

  • Frost Bite
  • digital print
  • 10″x10″
  • $150

We are out in the cold; isolated from those around us.

This past year has changed us. It’s changed how we interact with other people & it’s changed who we are as individuals.

Courtney Fairweather

  • What Now?
  • digital print
  • 10″x10″, unframed
  • NFS

For the elderly these are confusing times. She survived the war; she survived moving to a new country; she has survived old age. And now… THIS.

Elizabeth Morales

  • Listen to your Shadow
  • 12”x24″
  • Oil on canvas
  • 2020
  • $500 CAD

The process of creating art is guided by intuition therefore not rational. I do not start drawing on a canvas until I know what I am going to draw. Most of the time I look at the canvas and I see the painting in my mind, making the process much easier.

Elizabeth Morales

  • Equilibrium
  • 36”x24”
  • Oil on canvas
  • 2021
  • $1,000 CAD

The paintings shown were created during the pandemic they are abstract representations of moments of sadness (listen to your shadow), anxiety, and the need to finding balance within the new normal (Equilibrium).

Emmette Lewis

  • ‘Serene’
  • oil on wood canvas 
  • 2020 

“ The piece, “Serene” was inspired by the harmonious balance and spiritual relationship we have with the universe and our higher selves. This art piece represents our innermost soundness and the feeling of serenity. It symbolizes the balance and peace we find that grounds us to the universe. This art piece is supposed to encourage you to ponder on the meaning of your most peaceful self. The blue, orange, purple, and green colours are a visual interpretation of being in a meditative state and being in a state of clarity. The combination of colors, patterns, and line work symbolizes balance and unity. Additionally, the colors and female figure represents the deeper connections we discover within our consciousness and mind. By observing this art piece you are suppose to reflect on the symbiotic relationship between self and universe.” 

  • Instagram:@emmettelewis_art

Eva Lewarne

  • Marilyn -“It’s all make believe, isn’t it?”
  • 36 x 36 in
  • $1,730

Gwen Tooth

  • “Self Portrait with Mother’s Wedding Hat”
  • 16 x 12 in
  • Acrylic
  • 2021
  • $400

I am an experimental, expressionist painter, I am working in the style of Fauvism,  balancing inherent values of colours, and painting in strong bold shapes, I have been sketching from my memories.

Gwen Tooth

  • “Self Portrait 2 with Mother’s Wedding Hat”
  • 24 x 24 in
  • Acrylic
  • 2021
  • $1,200

In these times, it comforts me to wear my mother’s 1943 wedding day hat as a symbol of our united spirit.

Ineke MacNab

  • “Dad at age 35”
  • 2020
  • Oil on canvas
  • 16″ x 20″
  • $575.00

The current other-imposed solitude has lent itself to periods of self-examination beginning with the “me” in the mirror.  This image reflected back to me is a composite of genes and influences. 

Ineke MacNab

  • “The Ring”
  • 2021
  • 16” x 20”
  • $750.00

By examining family images from past eras, and putting these images on canvas, forgotten memories and feelings surfaced. Becoming more awoke was an unexpected result.

Jo Anne Maikawa

  • Self Portrait in these Times

I’ve chosen to do a Self Portrait in these Times with an emphasis on “In These Times”. I never imagined living through times like these, times of fear and isolation from family members, friends, colleagues and public life. My day-to-day life has now changed dramatically.

I’ve used wire to suggest the barriers which inhibit, to put it mildly, my activities and my relationship to family members, friends, and colleagues.

Juliana Kolesova

  • Polyhedron
  • 2020
  • Oil on board
  • 23.5” x 41.5”
  • $3950

Through my personal work, I seek to create enchanting, curious and captivating art, which stems from a certain emotional, philosophical or cultural approach.

Juliana Kolesova

  • Young Florentine
  • 2020
  • Oil on board
  • 24” x 24”
  • $2800

I seek to balance real life with spiritualism, the elegance of classical art with a modern vision. I like to experiment and play with elements melting one into another.

Kathryn Kirkpatrick

  • Waiting
  • 24″ by 30″
  • $2,800

For many, creating art is a form of communication…of ideas, images, experiences, reactions, moments in time. Art is a language in its own right, and its interpretation is dependent on individual perception. Often a simple word such as “right” or “self” or “art” can have a multitude of definitions and can trigger a multitude of complex and diverse reactions.

Kathryn Kirkpatrick

  • Portrait No. 5
  • 48″ by 48″
  • $12,000

I often use simple lines and monochromatic images to explore the complex relationships between art, emotion, language, life and societal constructs. My goal is to communicate these concepts, thoughts and emotions effectively, articulately and concisely while continuing to challenge my skills as an artist.

Kye Marshall

  •  Tree Self I

These self portrait photographs are blended  with different trees. Trees are critical to our physical survival and their splendour provides us with much aesthetic joy. In my appreciation I chose to merge with them.

Kye Marshall

  •  Self

This portrait was a Selfie- an attempt to capture myself unmediated.

Lee McCarthy 

  •  Tim Burton – Showtime

Tim Burton has been inspiring me since I was a child. Not only is he one of my favorite directors but he is a Illustrator and creator first. He made it ok to celebrate the darkness and wonder in main stream media. Also his ability to show us the world in a new light.

Leena Raudvee

  • Illusory Spaces #1
  • digital photograph
  • 7.5 x 9.5 in
  • 2021

It has been over a year of restricted physical contact. I crave the hug, the touch, the unmasked face.

Leena Raudvee

  • Illusory Spaces #2
  • digital photograph
  • 7.5 x 01 in
  • 2021

These are covid portraits. Drawings as self-portraits peer out from beneath objects that are tactile and tangible, that invite the hand to hold them, to feel their weight and texture, yet speak concurrently of the intangible: the disconnect between the real and the illusory.

Margaret Stawicki

  • ‘I am’
  • oil and mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas
  • 30” x 30”

How often we feel sorry for ourselves when going through tough times, or blaming ourselves for mistakes me done or encountered during the journey through life?

Margaret Stawicki

  • ‘In the picture‘
  • mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas
  • 30” x 30”

It’s doesn’t matter, living troubled times behind make us stronger, with better sense of self and better appreciation for life.

In my portraits I wanted to show beauty of “today” with scars of “yesterday.”

Marie Finkelstein

  •  Ty Dreaming 8
  • 16 x 20 in.
  • oil on canvas
  • 2020
  • NFS

I have been painting images of my family, particularly the children who revel in their world of fantasy and play. I am inspired by Ty’s search for balance in the forest, as I attempt to find mine in the thicket of Covid.

Patrick Carson

  • Walter Gretzky
  • 54″ x 48″
  • Acrylic on canvas
  • $3000 unframed

Patrick Carson worked up these paintings as a warm-up for the recent Brantford competition to commission a portrait of Walter Gretzky He completed more than 20 versions of Walter, then turned his brush to Wayne, Janet and their daughter Paulina.

  • instagram: artofpatrickcarson 

Patrick Carson

  • Walter and Wayne Gretzky
  • 23″ x 33″
  • Acrylic on treated printmaking paper
  • $1500 unframed
  • + $700 for custom cedar frame – each frame aprox- 48″ x 43″ – leaves room for painting to breath.

Carson’s style bestows the family with rambunctious edginess that’s absent in the mainstream media depictions of their well- publicized lives. Yet, Walter Gretzky’s characteristic amiability glows through the hastily laid brush- strokes. Walter knows his modest Brantford roots, as so does Carson. He paints the Gretsky’s with frank-hearted affection. The portraits are scampish, audacious…. and true.

  • instagram: artofpatrickcarson 

Paul Kilbertus

  • A portrait is worth a thousand words.
  • Collage on book page.

My art is about capturing images and moments of our daily lives. Playing with materials, collage also plays an important role. If I can get you to look – I win!

Catharine Somerville 

  • Jessica and Charlotte
  • 2021
  • Oil on canvas
  • 24 x18”
  • $750.00

This portrait represents the new life of Charlotte born in April 2020 during the pandemic.  A protective mother facing an unknown COVID virus.

 

Catharine Somerville 

  • Gypsy
  • Oil on canvas
  • 16 x16. 

Represents an isolated and separated person cut off from her family by COVID-19 restrictions.

 

Holly Edwards 

  • Unknown Portrait
  • 9×12
  • on watercolour paper. Mixed media collage, including watercolour crayons, watercolour markers, and japanese papers.

I am an abstract figurative artist using materials to intuitively respond to my environment and emotions. Through various mediums and materials, I strive to develop my art with integrity by continuously making a mark and responding to that impression. My process involves creating art daily, often working in a series to process an idea.

During the pandemic I found myself recycling life-drawing sketches and painted paper studies to create new works in the form of collage—often an unknown portrait. Old letters, magazine images, printmaking proofs, and delicate washi soon found there way into the collage mix. The endless possibilities of positive and negative shapes and additive and subtractive layers has become an integral part of my art practice. 

Helen Melbourne

  • My Lockdown Brain
  • 100% reclaimed materials
  • $450

The first lockdown was confusing, as the year has progressed I started to see myself as the functions of my brain and psyche -separate but interconnected in a delicate balance. This mobile piece illustrates the holistic and diverse patterns of thought and response: an inner self.

Eliza Moore

  • Continental Wind
  • unframed digital print
  • 12” by 48”
  • $300

As an artist, I’ve never wanted to be “in the picture” and have mostly avoided the self-portrait form. A review of my archive last year was very revealing – more self-images than expected.

Eliza Moore

  • Stay Away
  • unframed digital print
  • 12” by 48”
  • $300

Rather than discarding them, I started grouping them to highlight moods and patterns, producing “Continental wind” in February 2020 with some snaps from a trip to Cape Point, South Africa in 2011. The concept took hold of my imagination and I deliberately staged “Stay away” in my studio at the beginning of the pandemic in April 2020.

Elizabeth Greisman

  • Byzantine self portrait
  • 36″ x 48″
  • oil on canvas

The portraits that you see depicted in this exhibition are painted of women in the midst of creating their art, illuminating that moment of being moved by the Muse.

Elizabeth Greisman

  • Self portrait as Brunhilda
  • 24″ x 36″
  • oil on canvas

All portraits are in oil on canvas or paper.

They were created in multiples, one for the artist sitting for their portraits, and one for my collection.

It is always a thrill to see the likeness, and the personality emerge.

Linda Briskin

  • Fractured (diptych), Toronto.
  • Archival Pigment Print
  • 2021
  • 20×10 (unframed)
  • $145

Fractured, we feel ourselves fading and melting and vanishing. This series highlights the struggle to remain grounded in the face of climate anxiety, covid fears, political precariousness and heart-wrenching inequality.

Linda Briskin

  • Fractured (i), Toronto.
  • Archival Pigment Print
  • 2021
  • 14×17 (framed)
  • $195

Linda Briskin is a fine art photographer in Toronto. In 2019, her photographs were published in Tiny Seed Literary Journal, High Shelf Press, and Burningword Literary Journal. The series Fractured and Portrait of The Photographer were published in PhotoEd (Spring and Fall 2020). In 2020, a photo-essay Liminal Animism was published in Canadian Camera. In 2021, one of her photographs was chosen for the Herstory exhibit sponsored by Manhattan Arts International. She has participated in numerous group shows: in 2020, Spectra at Artscape, and Luminous at the Heliconian Club; in 2021, City of Dreams and The Changing Landscape at Gallery 1313, all in Toronto. Upcoming in 2021, Alone Together, an ekphrasis film with original music and art, and Eco-Env-Art at the Museum of Northern History, Kirkland Lake, Ontario.

Steve Stober

  • “Light Therapy”
  • photographed on Jan. 14, 2021

Out of the darkness of the pandemic grew a new self portrait project for 2021, one portrait a week for the entire year. The ongoing series can be viewed at: www.stevestober.com/news

Steve Stober

  • “Peeping Tom”
  • photographed on Feb. 25, 2021

Using humour combined with daily rituals, the series attempts to show how trivial things in life can be made to look interesting and entertaining.

Steve Stober

  • “Shower”
  • photographed on Feb. 5, 2021

Website: www.stevestober.com

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