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Artist Exhibitions:
2008
SOLO EXHIBITION, "Protection",
The Latcham Gallery,
Stouffville, ON
2007
FIRST PRIZE, 14th Annual
Juried Art Exhibition,
Lakeshore Arts, Toronto ON
SOLO EXHIBITION, "Crowd" The
Williams Mill Gallery, Glen
Williams, ON Canada
Group Exhibition, John Sommer
Juried Art Show, Georgetown ON
Group Exhibition, The Arts &
Letters Club, Toronto ON
2006
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Artist Galleries:
Latitude 44 Gallery
2900 Dundas Street West
Toronto Ontario M6P 1Y8
Canada
416-769-2900
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
City of Toronto, permanent
collection, Market Gallery,
Toronto, ON, Canada...
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Commissions:
The Arts & Letters Club of
Toronto, Executive List
'98-'99, Toronto, ON,
Canada...
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Artist Statement for Tina Newlove
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My new paintings of crowds and individuals are based on relationship both intimate and distant. Paintings of claustrophobic city settings and cutout solitary figures are caught in moments of contemplation, anxiety or in mid-conversation with unseen counterparts. These works play with vulnerability of the individual in city or intimate home-life situations.
More and more I notice the patterns around me shaping my world and making everything concrete. The weave in the fan, the stitching on the organ, the bowl of apples, the steady chug of the dishwasher and Tekno music thumping away
in the background all contribute to my art-making practice.
Bamboo sticks and good luck signs,
the sun and the moon every day,
the books on the shelves,
flowers from the market on Saturday,
city grids and stop lights,
past-present-future, past-present-future,
A-L, M-Z,
Revolution/Revelation,
life cycles, death cycles, wash cycles…
these are the patterns I muse over and record.
Sometimes I can see the big picture and sometimes everything revolves around the smallest details like feeding the fish, dotting orange paint and remembering to take my pill.
I paint mainly in oils on wood, canvas and paper. I assemble pieces with stitching (which piercingly binds my meandering thoughts together), silver leaf (because it tarnishes), gold leaf (because it doesn’t), dictionaries, wood, bronze and fabric. I cherish the beautiful, the delicate, the detailed, the organic and the non-violent but I often paint my experience with violence, despair, the poor and the war-torn.
“…words are possessed of colour, atmosphere, and tone, all of which give to them fine shades of meaning and powers of suggestion beyond those of other words having the same literal definition.” Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary
I began to seriously explore word/picture interrelation in 1996 with intricate, miniature oil and gold leaf paintings on pages ripped from a three-columned dictionary. These paintings, reminiscent of medieval manuscript painting, follow an historical context of representation with modern images, ideas, definitions and phrases, offering the viewer a variety of intellectual and visual stimulation.
I use trees, apples, flowers, figures, watery atmospheres, heaving skies, and turbulent foliage to present universal concerns of struggle and isolation, growth, rebirth and hope. I often repeat the same image in different contexts to personify ideas for example I’ll use an apple to invoke sexual appetite, desire, discord or appeal.
I find solace in quiet thoughts, self-reflection and ordered words. My images surface from the subconscious, childhood experiences, memories, tragedies, writings and dreams. My paintings are like escaped ideas caught. Ideas litter my mind like scraps of paper or buzzing flies. The paintings come together like a jigsaw puzzle or a world map; the definitions from a dictionary or the plotting of a long book.
My painting process in oil on canvas, printed canvas or paper includes many layers of translucent glazes touched with thicker textured paint and hints of gold leaf. The works painted on dictionary pages or pages reproduced onto canvas begin with choosing the word that illustrates the image I have decided to act upon. Then I draw out the areas in which I will later paint and underline relevant words and interesting themes that circle around the main concept. I entice the viewer with beautiful colours, startle them with harsh reality and leave them with the impression of a vision.
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