Trade Secrets Workshop: Grant Writing with Daniel Rumbolt

Trade Secrets Workshop: Grant Writing with Daniel Rumbolt

THE GATHERED GALLERY

Kayleigh Heydon

Emily & Natalie

Feb 26, 2020
1 min

Kayleigh Heydon

The work of Australian artist Kayleigh Heydon creates explorative abstract paintings of the human form. In her series, "The Pleasure is All Mine," Heydon has placed her work within a palette of flesh tones that interact on the surface of each painting. Their shapes are soft and rounded, pushing against each other tightly within their frames and creating a sense of pressure and energy. She repeats motifs throughout the series, offering us a glimpse of a hand or profile of a fa

Markus Davies

Emily & Natalie

Feb 19, 2020
1 min

Markus Davies

Dublin based artist Markus Davies creates paintings that explore geometric linework and bold colour fields in response to urban environments. Davies' palette plays with value and saturation to create extreme contrasts within each work. He paints a deep black alongside a striking lime green or poppy red, or he places two vibrant colours together so they appear to shimmer where their edges meet. These paintings push the limits of composition possibilities by reproducing simila

Emma White

Emily & Natalie

Feb 12, 2020
1 min

Emma White

Toronto based painter Emma White explores the intervention of humans on the natural world, and attempts to correct the imbalance we inflict. White's paintings are rich with pigment, their oily surfaces built up wet on wet into thick textures and creamy brushstrokes. She plays with pattern and rhythm, allowing repetitive marks to punctuate the surface of each image. The close-up crops of her subjects reveal her photographic source material, with moments captured from her concr

Seana Reilly

Emily & Natalie

Jan 29, 2020
1 min

Seana Reilly

American artist Seana Reilly creates intricate and detail-filled drawings drenched with tension and mystery. The subject matter of these drawings is elusive, and shape shifting with each glance. At first, they appear as a microscopic slide of bacteria or the cross section of plant or animal fibers. Then, they suddenly shift, transforming into a photograph of the surface of a planet, perhaps the texture of the side of the moon. Each piece brings us into its artificial world, i

Ibrahim Abusitta

Emily & Natalie

Jan 15, 2020
1 min

Ibrahim Abusitta

Toronto based artist Ibrahim Abusitta paints inviting yet eerie group portraits of fun gatherings and social spaces in his series "A Past Life that Exists for Nostalgia" Each painting is filled with an ominous wash of colour, a rust orange, neon fuchsia, and muted burgundy, tinting the scenes with an emotional backdrop. They capture a cinematic moment, a movie still that has been eroded with time with details that have faded away. The texture of the wood-grain surface comes t

Albert Chamillard

Emily & Natalie

Jan 8, 2020
1 min

Albert Chamillard

American artist Albert Chamillard creates ballpoint pen drawings that are intricately layered and pleasantly nostalgic. Using paper from vintage ledger books as a surface, Chamillard allows faded page lines to become part of his compositin, directing their outcome. Each geometric form rises with the textured layers of cross-hatched marks, the repetitive motion of his hand embossing the smooth, yellowed paper until it is glossy. By building up these small lines, he is able to

Joey Slaughter

Emily & Natalie

Jan 1, 2020
1 min

Joey Slaughter

American artist Joey Slaughter creates captivatingly colourful paintings. Each piece oozes with energy from an anthropomorphic personality, creating a cast of characters through Slaughter's body of work. Slaughter's paintings are full of crisp line work and graphic channels, creating intricate colour fields in saturated hues, which mirror and wrap the surfaces of his uniquely shaped panels. While their abstract shapes are strange and unfamiliar, their bulbous nature hints at

Katherine Duclos

Emily & Natalie

Dec 18, 2019
1 min

Katherine Duclos

Vancouver based artist Katherine Duclos creates compositions and collages that offer escape to another world. Duclos invokes familiar colours, textures, and forms to create scenes that are captivatingly strange. She toes the line between representation and abstraction, allowing us to understand a visual cue and then subverting its context. Working playfully with scale to create works ranging from miniature to massive, she offers unique experiences with each body of work. Thei

Issac Watamaniuk

Dec 4, 2019
1 min

Issac Watamaniuk

Kitchener ON based artist Issac Watamaniuk creates abstract paintings that explore the dynamic compositions found within urban landscapes. Using hard edge shapes, Watamaniuk paints optical illusions that are juxtaposed with the flatness of the solid colour fields to create depth in an unexpected way. In exhibition, the paintings also employ unexpected installation practices, uniquely interacting with props and wall elements to invite the viewer to examine the interactions bet

COLLECTORS ITEM: Sculpture by Robert Smithson

Nov 27, 2019
1 min

COLLECTORS ITEM: Sculpture by Robert Smithson

Currently on display at the Art Gallery of Ontario is Sculpture by Robert Smithson, a Gravel Mirror Corner Piece made by the artist in 1968. Robert Smithson was part of the Earthworks and Land art movements that followed minimalism and brought sculptures out of the gallery into the outside environment and vice versa. Known for his giant, ephemeral earth works such as Spiral Jetty (1970), Smithson also produced a series of works inside the gallery he called non-sites. Smithso

Gisela Navarro

Emily & Natalie

Nov 13, 2019
1 min

Gisela Navarro

Gisela Navarro is a London based illustrator and graphic designer that creates beautiful designs celebrating the expression and identity of women. Using a pleasant combination of pastel colours and organic shapes, Navarro creates aesthetically pleasing works that are simple but extremely effective. She depicts women with broad shoulders and strong legs, figures that take up space in her utopic land. With their free flowing bodies, these women become one with their captivating

Matthew Mahler

Emily & Natalie

Nov 6, 2019
1 min

Matthew Mahler

Matthew Mahler explores the process of abstract painting as a repeatable, instructional-able methodology in works that carry our eyes around, through and off the surface of the canvas. In his most recent body of work, Mahler loosely uses instructions found on the internet, specifically wikihow, describing how to make an abstract painting in a step-by-step format that we can imagine as almost humorously simple. Working within these constraints, he uses tape and thick layers of

Melissa Borrell

Emily & Natalie

Oct 23, 2019
1 min

Melissa Borrell

. Melissa Borell is a Texas based installation artist that employs light and colour to activate spaces for her viewers. Module shapes are constructed to create a form that references both by geometry and nature. The shadows created by the piece become part of the installation itself as Borell's art merges with its installation environment. Her works are created from vibrantly coloured pieces of wood or acrylic sheets. Materials are layered so that light and colour can

Hailey Guzik

Oct 16, 2019
1 min

Hailey Guzik

Montreal based artist Hailey Guzik creates expressive paintings that employ perceptual illusions to explore the interactions of natural and manufactured landscapes. Constructed by each individual mark that Guzik applies to the canvas, the landscapes radiate a sense of assemblage, like a collage of brush marks. The buildup of texture with paint is contrasted with the flatness of the image, with depth indicated subtly through colourful gradients. This impasto and evidence of th

Hazel Eckert

Emily & Natalie

Sep 25, 2019
1 min

Hazel Eckert

St. John's based artist Hazel Eckert explores colour through a digital lens with her series of soft abstract photographs. Soft Focus captures the ephemeral compositions created by time lag glitches on smartphones. Eckert's out-of-focus photographs offer a suggestion of an image that is just moments away from appearing, placing a veil of disorientation over the screens we constantly consume. Each one asks the viewer to pause and meditate on the instant abstraction and presents

Emma Childs

Emily & Natalie

Sep 18, 2019
1 min

Emma Childs

American artist Emma Childs creates captivating abstract paintings that delve into the possibilities of minimal composition. Childs' forms extend beyond the edges the paintings and dictate the shape of the canvases. Irregular geometry on their surfaces create skewed angles and complimentary corners, and the works are given an extra dose of drama with a pop of colour or a deep shadow wrapping around the perimeter. Each composition is built up in layers, with the matte colours

Elise Puddy

Emily & Natalie

Sep 11, 2019
1 min

Elise Puddy

Guelph-based artist Elise Puddy surrenders control to the materials of drawing to create captivatingly enigmatic graphic work. Tendrils of graphite and pools of ink create intricacies to pull the viewer in, their fluidity allowing them to exist as shape shifters, conveying a bird's eye view or the depths of the ocean floor. As Puddy states, they have an ability "to change identity from; terrestrial to cosmic, atomic to macroscopic, biological to mineral, but still remain ambi

Jane Guthleben

Emily & Natalie

Sep 4, 2019
1 min

Jane Guthleben

Jane Guthleben is an artist working in Sydney, Australia, who carefully collects natural elements in her environment and preserves them in oil paint. Guthleben's body of work "Ornament" is filled with thick, juicy brushstrokes that mix muted pinks with muddy greens, allowing each layer to sit on top of the one below with decisive mark making. The texture of the flora she selects is echoed through the texture of the paint she uses to recreate them, and her ability to capture i

Steve Fortier

Emily & Natalie

Aug 21, 2019
1 min

Steve Fortier

Vancouver based painter Steve Fortier creates pixelated acrylic works that breakdown photographs through colour and repetition. Beaches, sunsets, flowers, and other idyllic subjects are transformed into pattern; their resemblances are obscured, yet offered to the viewer through the revealing title of the work. Each painting contains a colour palette that is vibrant and broad, with complex colour mixing and careful execution. He varies each composition, building his abstractio

Angeline Simon

Emily & Natalie

Aug 14, 2019
1 min

Angeline Simon

Angeline Simon is an artist based out of Lethbridge, Alberta who works in many disciplines including photography, collage, and installations. Her series of sculptures caught our attention with their powerful message. Simon creates replicas of everyday items that seem to shrug with insignificance; a styrofoam container, a coffee cup, a pair of pill bottles. These overlooked, disposable items are so tenderly recreated in plaster or coated in wax they appear as artifacts, mement