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May 13 to June 26, 2010
Please join us for the opening on Thursday, May 13th from 7 to 9 p.m.
Stemming from previous bodies of work, here Wiitasalo creates elusive images with surfaces that shift between dynamic movement and stasis. Through various methods of transfer and application, her approach leads to an experience of painting that is direct and immediate and enhances a deceptive pictorial economy.
There is a feeling of naturalistic specificity to even the starkest of Wiitasalo's compositions, a sense that somehow the picture emerged out of a rigorous confrontation with some exterior reality, even though one can no more reconstruct the criterion of rigor than one can the scene itself. What it amounts to is that a world opens itself in these paintings and it does not feel imaginary. The paintings neither depict the world nor negate it, but register a comportment toward it that, though only minimally mimetic, is powerfully respectful yet strangely unpredictable, even subtly troubling. It's a perturbed quiet that you're left with.
— Barry Schwabsky, Shirley Wiitasalo: The Ineffability Effect in Shirley Wiitasalo (exh. cat.), Toronto: The Power Plant, 2001
For more information please contact the gallery or visit our website.
Please note that on the evening of the opening free parking is available west of Tecumseth Street at the lot for the Niagara Street Public School - on the north side of Adelaide Street between number 706 and 714. This offer does not apply during regular gallery hours.
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